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Happy weekend!

Squack!! I think I am officially nesting, since I spent most of my Monday-bank-holiday cleaning. I decided to start in the back of the house and I seriously spent THREE hours cleaning our bedroom. I started with a dry cloth and wiped down every inch of wall space -- carefully using a step-ladder to reach the top -- and then followed with a wet towel. (I must have switched out my bucket of hot water at LEAST ten times.) As I worked my way around the room, I used the vaccuum attachment-thingy to get every cob-web. I dusted each inch of the furniture, which I hubs moved as I went. I wiped baseboards. I vaccuumed behind and under everything. I even removed the cobwebs from the insides of our closets. Who knew they were even there?! (Here's the reason I know I'm nesting: I secretly really enjoyed myself the entire time.) Next up: the guest bedroom, which is probably even dirtier since our dog hangs out in there. In Color News: We bought paint! I'm on vacation...

I'm pretty sure I'm officially obsessed with shopping for the (as-yet-unnamed) baby. Wanna see some of my finds?! I found this red and black baby carrier at a consignment sale -- it was a steal at $45. Those things are normally like $100. And, they're all the rage. I'll look soooo awesome with my baby strapped to me! This little dress is probably my favorite purchase so far. Technically, it was free because a bank customer gave me a $25 gift card to JC Penney as a gift for the baby. (In real life, it was $20, which is a little more than I want to spend on any one thing that will only fit my baby for the first 0-3 months of her life.) Don't you think she should wear this dress for her first photo at the hospital?? (I do! Hubs wants her in a Louisville Cardinals sporty onesie or something. Pishawspice.) I also love and adore this art ($5.99 at TJMaxx) and it's become a bit of inspiration for my nursery design ideas. I think I'll paint the walls that pr...

Friends, if you miss me half as much as I've missed you then we're in business... let me just get the "I suck at blogging and life" pity-party out of the way. Okay. Donewiththat. Here's what I've been up to since we last spoke. 1.) Convinced hubs to let me paint over the creepy M & M people in our nursery-to-be. (As you may recall, this wall art is leftover from the previous home owners.) 2.) Driven to Goodwill 6523 times and donated about 531213 pounds of clothes and other trivial junk lovely home decor. 3.) Cleaned out EVERYTHING from the baby's room... except for the furniture. After one more trip to Goodwill and pick-up from Cedar Lake Lodge (we're getting rid of a full sized bed, a random could-be-a-breakfast-table table, and a few other large items) I'll be ready to move the furniture out of the room and it will be empty and ready for painting! (Yeah, no. I'm not moving furniture. I'll have someone else do that.) 4.) ...

Would this have scared the beejesus-spice out of you as a child? For the record, these M & M people aren't my handiwork. It isn't like I all of the sudden developed a talent in the visual arts. This is our "other" spare bedroom -- our future nursery. The walls looked this way when we moved in five years ago. At the time we thought, "Ohh, this would make such a cute baby room someday!" Now, I'm reallyreally torn about keeping these chocolate covered creatures of the walls of my little beans bedroom. Aren't they kind of creepy? Or are they cute? What do you think? Keep 'em or dump 'em? (Hubs still likes them. I think he just doesn't want to paint. My big issue is that they aren't really calming. Maybe they were cute for the toddler who used to live in my house, but maybe they also turned her into some hyper-active, manic beast-of-a-child. One who was afraid to eat candy or something.)