My Dream Nursery

What makes my Dream Nursery, so dreamy? The fact that i have one! It only took me three babies to lockdown an actual nursery but by golly i got one, and it is pretty awesome, in my opinion :)  This one came more out of necessity than from a desire to have one. We have a reasonable sized house (perfect IMO hehe) a nice amount of square footage, but the rooms are very segmented, which is pretty common in older houses, cape cods in particular. That means we have no master sweet. We plan on having two rooms and a bathroom morphed into one master suit, but this is pretty far out in our renovation plans. So what we have here is a little tine bedroom next to a little tiny bedroom, and neither have enough room for our bed and a crib... THUS a nursery was created!!

The room had been deemed the Multi-purpose room, and we have used it for just about every purpose we could come up with since moving in: guest room, office, storage room, playroom, back to guest room, sewing room, room that houses a knitting machine, back to play room, then lastly a tool shed/lumber yard(for the dining room project, not yet blogged about) Now the room can lovingly be called a nursery, after 9 months of envisioning it, and planning and gathering furniture, we put it all together in 2, thats right TWO day.

Most of the rooms in this house... well who am i kidding, ALL of the rooms in this house have been beat to h***, we are pretty sure that the previous owners rented out individual rooms, and they didnt do "home improvement" more like "throw on some spackle and a boat load of caulking and call it good" so every room we remodel, we have to sand down the plaster, fix the cracks, patch huge holes, redo base boards and window casings and undo the previous "home improvements". All before we can start painting and it is usually a two week process.  This room was needing to be done fast, so hubbs did a bit of light sanding (with a belt sander) I did a few wall patches (used a whole can of plaster) and then we taped the best we could(over the excessive amounts of caulking) and painted the room green. Unfortunately this was the worst room in the house so it really should have required a month of work... but now that the paint is on and all is said and done it is not to bad!

My plan was to have a functioning nursery, as well as a place for the kids to sit and play quietly while I am busy tending to baby... it sounds like a tall order, but i think we may have accomplished it for the most part, i guess i will see when baby gets here!!

Here are some pictures!!

The view from my Glider.  kids sitting on their home made floor cushions,  playing with puzzles and books. The white quilt was a last minute project i will explain later. Take a look at the quilt hanging on the crib... this quilt was made by my awesome friends, and quilting companions, they each picked out fabric that made them think of me or that they thought i would like(because baby 3 is a surprise) and then they quilted it together... i just love it!! They really went above and beyond with that! Then made a diaper bag to match!!! i know what you are thinking... i need some friends like that :) 

View from the door. The repurposed target bookshelf that we've had for like 5 years,  fits in pretty good to hold some quiet toys and books!!

The aqua Doodle, this is the kids favorite feature! they can play with it only when i get the 'markers' down, and i intend on doing so sparingly... to keep it exciting! Right now if allowed they will play with it for at least an hour

Future big sis and big bro!!

Baby G had to take a picture since i was taking pictures, she did a good job... except i am swollen and ridiculously pregnant, we will just blame it on a bad camera angle :/

Now alls i have to add is a baby!! Then our family will be one child closer to complete, hehe!! More to come on our current series "catching up" join me tomorrow night as i blog about THE DINING ROOM (you are not gonna want to miss that)

Vinyasa Hatha Dilemma

Today marks the return of my worn down beaten pregnant body, to yoga. Oh how i love love love yoga!

It is a strange thing for me to say that because it wasn't always this way... Highschool and a few years of college was spent on anaerobic exercises and trying to become "as strong as possible" and then killing myself on a treadmill or elliptical for, what seemed to me, absolutely no reason(i hate cardio).  It was one semester after a particularly intense tennis class that i decided to take "a cheat" PE class. What would be easier than YOGA, it's just breathing and silly names,  the hardest thing i could think of about this class was that it was at 8 in the morning(ludicrous). The first class was spent talking about our feeling, and the all importance of breath and oxygen, the negative aspects of judging ourselves and others, and inner peace... and i am pretty sure the teacher, though born and raised in SoCal was buddhist. I almost quit the class, were it not for the need for another PE credit, i guess i had negative energy ;)

Then the real classes started, we were being taught Hatha yoga. Slow and easy and super duper relaxing, it quickly became what i looked forward to every week!! Of course i was much skinnier and more flexible, than i am now after 2 children and lots of sunday dinners, so it came so very easy to me.

Now 5 years later i am a full on Vinyasa fan. I love that i sweat without really doing anything.  Then there is feeling soar the next day without ever exerting any energy(i hate cardio did i mention that). Really though the best part is my posture... its amazing, everything looks and feels different after yoga. Unless you dont drink enough water then, well, you feel like poop. I know that my first yoga teacher was a little out there, but now i can honestly say i understand what she was so excited for.

Allow me to expound on my yoga deficiencies...For my first two pregnancies i have been so out of it i couldn't do ANYTHING. For Baby A i was sick THE WHOLE TIME, i think there was one month(around month 7) that i wasnt throwing up daily, so obviously no time for downward dog. For baby B i was sick for only the first 3-4 months and then i used the ever so enduring excuse of chasing around my 15 month old daughter. There was something new in the mix too, my pelvic bone was just way to lose, i would be in ridiculous pain while walking, laying on my side or on my back or even sitting for any amount of time. But i blamed this on my pregnancies being almost on top of each other. So once again sliding into a sedentary life style (luckily my eating habbits were moving towards healthy by this point.

Baby #C... this is where the dilemma comes in. I am no longer "tossing my cookies" so to speak and i am feeling pretty energetic, so i went to my usual Yoga class this morning. It is Vinyasa, but is even leaning a little to the ashtanga side of things. I really felt so awkward doing it being pregnant, even though there were other pregers present. It may have had something to do with me being in terrible shape after a 4 month absence, or it could have been the honey dew sized belly i am now dealing with finding a spot for in some of the poses. Either way it was tough, and my pelvic bone is no better this pregnancy that it was last(in fact it has been painful since the 6 weeks mark). I thought that if i just go and  tough it out, feeling more aligned and having a bit of a core workout would help, but i have been walking funny ever since. So now i have to decide to stick with it and hope it doesnt get worse, move to hatha yoga(where the geriatrics go) and just stay flexible but not really get a work out, or just go swimming to keep the pregnancy weight down (i am determined not to let myself go to far this time) and i HATE swimming, in the worse way possible!

At any rate i did enjoy myself greatly this morning and i will probably go with the husband a few times, cause he finally sees the light in yoga (i couldnt resist), but i shall see if i can actually stick with it!

thats about as enlightened as i get so deal with it ;)