Yikes!

Yeah.. I’ve gotten really bad at this. 8 months since I’ve posted bad. I have some excuses but mostly I’ve just been lazy about documenting things.

Well the first project I will post about is baby #2. He/she is part of my list of excuses but only accounts for the first 15 weeks of not posting. I was sick. Really sick. I now know exactly what women who complained of morning sickness were talking about. It is brutal, so awful that I could probably pinpoint on a calendar the day it went away. I have thanked God everyday since I started feeling better because I know some women who were sick throughout their entire pregnancies. I was not sick with Myles and was not expecting to be sick with this one so it really knocked me out. I am not exaggerating to say that it would have been too much in those 15 weeks to sit at the computer and post something. In fact I couldn’t even barely go into the basement because I suddenly was very sensitive to the “basement” smell that Aaron claimed was not there.

Okay, I’m sure you get the point. We knew I was better the day that Aaron came home and I had rearranged all the furniture in the house..and I have been very greatful that the pregnancy has been smooth sailing ever since. The due date is exactly a month from today.

Another project that I sort of had stock piled from last fall was a cabinet in our kitchen. My dad made it in the 90’s for my sister and I aquired it when we moved into this house. We had been using the shoe cabinet portion of it for a while and had painted it the same white as the cabinets and used matching drawer pulls but the upper bookcase portion had sat in the attic untouched. I was hoping to gain some extra storage space in our small kitchen. Our small appliances were taking up space in our cabinets or else were stored in the basement where I never touched them. I wanted a place where they would be easily accesible. When we brought the bookcase down to see if it would fit okay, it looked like this:

I primed and painted the bookcase portion while Aaron sanded down the shelves. We decided to stain the shelves the same dark brown as our counters to tie everything together.