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My only concerns right now are (1) pain in my lower right belly when I walk for any length of time, other then around my house. If I go shopping, I almost always barely make it in the door before I have to all but stop and then walk every so slowly. My doctor thinks it's just muscle spasms so I am going to go with that. She told me to just slow down and stretch before I leave the house. I hope that helps because with all the Christmas shopping I've got to do I don't have time to 'slow' down. And, (2) my darn nose bleeds. I have been doing the saline spray and humidifier, which sits on my night stand. I didn't have one for 3 weeks and was so excited then BAM out of nowhere on Saturday, during my shower no less, I got a pretty good one. Of course I didn't know I was having one until I went to dry off and realized it was all over everything. Not fun! Then got another one the next day. So my OB said to try the saline gel. Well today, before I could go get some, I had a doozy of a bleed...the worst so far. It was so bad that my rarely reactive husband says, "Maybe you really need to suck it up and just go to an ENT". What??? That definitely didn't help my nerves. I told him I wasn't ready to take that avenue just yet. I went and purchased the gel before lunch and decided after lunch I would try it out. Well...that wasn't soon enough, I ended up with another bleed before I even got through lunch. UGH!!! Since using the gel this afternoon, I haven't had one and it's rather soothing because it has Aloe in it. Just hoping and praying it works!
I've been busy like a bee: the nursery is almost completely done, making different projects, been busy with photography sessions and almost got Ethan's big boy room done.
When I originally started working on the 'main' wall in Elliott's room, I thought oh this is going to be fun. Well that didn't last long. In my opinion...stripes suck! lol. They look awesome afterwards but the process is such a pain. Then, because I saw the wall tree mural that I couldn't live without but couldn't bring myself to spend $120 on it so I got to pain it. It is by no means perfect but what fun would that be. ;) I wanted to do something different other then wooden letters for his name, so I printed off the letters and framed them. Thankfully I'm a scrapbook junky and I already had the ribbon on hand. BTW...the frames are the $.95 frames from good ole Walmart. :) I love how it turned out and in the end it was worth all the frustration.
After getting the painting done, I of course had to start filling up the rest of the room. We inherited the glider from my husband's grandmother and used it in Ethan's room. The cushions are originally a hunter green, which was fine in Ethan's room but just wasn't going to work in Elliott's room. So...next project, recover the cushions. lol. I wanted something that was thick and going to withstand the wear and tear of hours of nursing and rocking. I found the material, which is almost like a soft denim, at Walmart on clearance for 1.75 p/y. YAY!! Considering this was my first attempt at covering cushions I'm pretty happy with how they turned out.
Onto my next crazy idea. We got Ethan a 'tag' "lovey" before he was born and he loves it. So I wanted to get one for Elliott too. One problem...they don't sell them at Walmart anymore. In fact they don't sell them hardly anywhere except online and they want $40+ for them...no thanks! Let me back up...they don't sell them with the satin tags in retail stores, now all the tags are ribbons. So I made one. lol. Again, not perfect but should do the trick and stand up to the weekly washes. Plus, I already had the minky material on hand so I just had to purchase the satin.
Then my final project right now, was the recovering of the lamp shade. I just wanted a simple little lamp to use as a night light. I didn't want to spend a bunch of money but wanted it to tie in and match the room. I'm a tight wad and couldn't find anything reasonably priced that I liked so...you guessed it...I made one. lol. I just purchased a cheap $5 lamp at Walmart and then took an old yucky shade we already had and covered it in the minky material I already had. Presto! Since taking this picture I added a 'ball' fringe around the bottom of the shade. Since his bedding has caterpillars in it, I thought the ball fringe looked like a caterpillar so I had to add it.
I can't wait to get the last few things done and post pics of the completed nursery. Not to mention, I'm ready to start washing clothes and stocking his dresser drawers and closet. :) Oh yea...I almost forgot...I ordered his 'bringing home' outfit and just got an email today saying it shipped. Eeekkk...I can't wait to see it.
I have gone on enough but want to wrap up this entry with a video I took the other night, showing Elliott 'excerising'. :)
