Awhile back someone asked Chris if we had the nursery ready for the baby yet…
Here is our nursery. Pretty fancy, hunh? 
I have mellowed a lot in recent years…and I mean A LOT. This would have been completely unacceptable for Huntler or Gentry. But Baby Thumper? Well, this is just the way it is and I am really okay with that. There is no room to decorate. No furniture to assemble. Nothing! The baby will sleep in its super cute Moses Basket by our bed until it is big enough to move to the crib…at which time we will get Gentry a big girl bed. {Don’t panic – she is NOT still sleeping in a crib! Our furniture converts to a toddler sized day bed! But, she doesn’t sleep in it anyway. She prefers a sleeping bag and the floor. Every night.}
We DO have fourth bedroom, but it is our guest room and we don’t want to give it up. Since our family is all so far away, when they come they stay for awhile and they need a space. And I need their stuff nicely tucked away in one room! So for now, this will do!
I am secretly {not so secretly} praying for a miracle that will have us back in Kansas before we have to address any of the room issues anyway!
So this is it. The little bit of space we carved out of our extra coat closet for the baby! Its stuff mixed in with suitcases and our DVD collection! It seems a bit bare, yes, but before too long those empty hangers will be home to all sorts of baby cuteness! And all those burp cloths on the right? My fab friend Julie whipped those up when she came and visited for a couple of days!! And yes, there are many more girl prints that boy prints. No, I do not know the gender of the baby! I just happen to have a lot more girly fabric and boyish fabric! So, if baby is a boy, I am going to have to make a fabric run to get some more prints! And the ones we don’t use…they’ll become gifts!
Now wasn’t that a fun tour?
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by Bethany
(hug) I know how hard it is to let go of things like this! Actually, I was just thinking that if I get pregnant this summer, the baby won’t have a room of his/her own and we may not even do a crib at all (co-sleeper instead). No cute crib bedding, no window valences, no coordinating rugs or lamps. I may mourn the loss of decorating! And eventually, the baby would have to share a room with either Jaina or Jayce. Oh well, lots of sibs share rooms, right?
Oh how I know the desire to have a place for the baby when you don’t. But, your closet will do! I always had to make do!
And I LOVE the fabric choices you made!