My dream room

Of course my extra room right now is Gabriel's nursery, (aside from our 2 guest rooms) but if I had another extra room, I would make it my very own walk in closet - complete with a chandelier. For now ill just have to dream my little dream in my head. Here are some great pics i found online of celebrity closets.

image courtesy of yourstruly26.com

Photo of Paris Hilton's closet

Photo of Jenna Lyon's closet (Jcrew design director)

courtesy of decorpad.com
*love the pop color for the shoe wall

Anna Sui's closet courtesy of elledecor.com

Mariah Carey's closet

**love her chair and chandelier

Nesting in overdrive

I'm not sure how to explain these past few weeks. You read and read all these baby books in the hopes of being ready for exactly this time. But its a weird feeling to actually be in a phase that i've read so much about.

Everyone always says, you have a hard time sleeping in the end, you'll feel so anxious for baby to come out, you'll be in nesting mode and get the house ready. People and books couldn't have hit it more on the nose.

My sleeping schedule is like this. 3 hours sleeping in my bed, on my side cuddled with my snoogle. I force myself to do this because the nurse practitioner said this aids with the functioning of my kidneys. I hate doing it because when i wake up, my tummy hurts on one side from all the weight and pressure falling on it. Potty break. Then for the next 3 hours, i move downstairs to the family room to sleep on my chaise with a firm back pillow where i sleep sitting up. Of course i usually can't fall asleep right away here. So i spend the next hour catching up on facebook status updates. Then, knowing that i'll be annoyed having to go to the bathroom in the middle of my sleep, i make one stop to the bathroom and then i finally go into the last leg of my sleep sitting up on my chaise. Everyone says to get as much sleep as i can now before baby comes. Let me tell you, i try and try - but it is NOT working. I guess my body is getting me ready to not sleep.

Anxiety - yes, I'm excited to meet baby. But with meeting baby comes the labor, delivery, and the recovery and i can't get over that part. in fact it makes me scared! i know, millions of women have gone through this, including our mother's and grandmothers, but it still doesn't appease the anxiety. Everyday this week, as i wake up to contractions or mild cramps i'm always wondering, is today going to be the day? Its a really emotional time, not feeling in control of when things are going to happen. And when i say things, i mean, life changing events!! The car is packed with our hospital bag but, i constantly feel like i have so much more to do before baby comes.

This is where nesting comes in.

I can think of a million and one things that need to be done here in the house before baby arrives. And that is probably what kept me so busy last week at like 3 am in the morning. I cooked dishes to freeze for future use. I cleaned the kitchen to my heart's content.

I literally spent 3 hours in the baby room organizing diapers i got from diaper cakes. 3 hours!! diaper cakes are great - i love making them and and i love getting them. But, its a pain in the ass to figure out which diapers are what size, which i should use first since they're smaller, etc.

I did like 5 loads of laundry between mine, wil's and baby's.

I guess doing these are not so bad. its just that fact that they're done in 3 in the morning that made me feel insane.

I honestly loooove being pregnant. I know I am blessed and so lucky to be in this

position. Only a year ago i remember recovering from one of my miscarriages. But i know that nothing, no reading, or no advice from people can fully prepare me for this new adventure i'm about to face within these next 2 weeks. All i know is that this baby is what will give me the strength to be a good mom, wife and person in this world.

So every night, i kiss his picture, waiting for the day i can kiss him in person.

Wednesday flowers

My new obsession right now is peonies. I've always known how beautiful they are, but i love them more so for the drama they add to a room's decor. I have no clue if this is part of my "nesting" feelings or what - but i heart them. Here are some great inspiration pics I found online as well as on http://www.weheartit.com/ I'm thinking of getting a gorgeous see through blue vase to put on baby's room with some peonies. I think this would look great against the contrast of the espresso colored dresser. We'll see. I'll keep you posted once i find something.

Ikea Date

This week, Wil and I went on an Ikea lunch date :) I'm a cheap date. lol. We of course had the swedish meatballs lunch and finished it off with $1 icecream cones - what beats that?

We decided to get baby's dresser from here. There are a lot of dresser sets that come with cribs - but we decided the dresser was where we could cut some costs. Yes, longevity is not as good, but for now, it will do. I think by getting an ikea dresser we saved about $200. We decided on this 3 drawer dresser, the Hemnes. It was $149 last year and we got it for $129 - not bad. We got it in the black/brown color to match baby's crib.

This is the crib, we finally decided on for baby. Wil's parents were nice enough for order this for us!!!It should be coming in next week. I think that's when it'll really hit me, when i see baby's crib all set up. Then it'll really feel like a nursey.

We got the StorkCraft Monique crib in black. I usually look for the color espresso but some reason in this line, the espresso looked so light!

That was a beautiful day to head to Ikea. We went to the the one at Atlantic Station so we got to see more of Atlanta as we made our way there. Here are some of the things we spotted:

Atlanta's version of the Arc de Triumph! I'm sure there's a name - but not sure what its called.

A new meaning to the word "Drive through."Beautiful skyline of the City of AtlantaIt was a hot day, but luckily my feet weren't as swollen so i didn't feel the need to cover them up in jeans or a maxi dress. Here I am at 33 weeks wearing:

HM peach cotton top with flutter sleeves with tonal embroidery

Target maternity khaki shorts (not really my cup of tea- but you really need shorts here in Atlanta)

Louis Vuitton Bag

Banana Republic resin/gold accent/crystlal bangle in white

Steve Madden, white and gold sandals (not pictured)

We'll be heading to Home Depot/Lowe's to look at paint chips/border ideas for baby's room. I think the baby blue walls with brown furniture will look sooo adorable. Stay tuned for that!

Baby Closet

I couldn't resist, how cute is this picture, seeing all of baby's little clothes hanging up???? I can't wait!!!!!!!!!

Project Nursery

I can't tell you what a hard time i had in picking out the nursey theme/decor. My husband is pretty much ok with anything, his only request was that we have pigs somewhere in the room (he loves everything pink and round - hence - little piglets) :). we originally had the idea of making the room look like a pig pen with fencing around the walls... As cute as it sounded, i decided that i wanted a more refined look to the room with a section dedicated to our little collection of round stuffed pigs.

As soon as we found out we were having a little boy, i knew i wanted a baby blue theme. As generic as it sounds, you can't help but think of "sweet little baby boy" when you see a baby blue color.

After a lot of going back and forth on the theme and color scheme we wanted, this is what called out my name, or should i say baby's name, when i shopped around online.

Its called Elise by Bananafish. Wil loved it. I gave him other options but this is the one he chose as well. My sister Gail called this the Charlotte room - she thought this is the type of bedding Charlotte from Sex and the City would've chosen. (Not sure if that's a bad thing or a good thing!) I registered for the crib set, the valance, and the mobile. The only difference is Wil and I chose espresso brown for the furniture. can't wait to see it altogether. i think it will look so nice.

What's even more exciting is that we got our crib bedding already!!! Our good friends Erin and Cece (their beautiful daughter Seraphina is our goddaughter) got this for us off our registry. It was the first present we got and when it arrived at our front door, we were so excited. Everything was becoming more and more real!

My absolute dream is to have a chandelier in the baby room, but, if i can't even have a nice chandelier in my dining room, i'm not sure why i would think i would have one in baby's room. here's an idea of what it would look like. We'll see :)