Nesting

My poor ignored blog is back online. It was down for a few days because our domain expired and we had to wait to get paid before I could renew it.

I just noticed my ticker over on the right-hand side there says 55 days to go! Crazy, I can’t believe that’s all that’s left. Of course, it could be give or take 2 or 3 weeks on either side, but still. I went into labour with Meredith on her due date with no intervention, so I’m expecting it to be similar this time. I’m actually kind of hoping to go a bit later actually (though ask me how I feel about that idea in 55 days ) because my mom’s birthday is early March and I’d rather the baby wasn’t born on or too near her birthday. (On the other hand, would having a baby on her 50th birthday exempt me from having to think of something else to get her? :p )

I was busy over the holidays painting. I didn’t get as much done as I’d hoped, because after I did the dining room/hallway I realized the colours I’d picked for the rest of the downstairs probably wouldn’t work. I was wanting to do green in the living room, mostly because Kris and I both really like green and I liked the pictures I’ve seen of green living rooms. We also want to hang artwork in the living room that was painted by Kris’ grandmother and it’s all very nature-ish: blues, greens, and browns. Anyway, we picked a colour that we thought would be a sort of light brownish red for the dining room and hallway. I painted a little sample on the wall and it ended up being much more orangey-salmony than we thought from the chip. I decided I liked it anyway and went ahead with it without thinking of how the colour would go with the green we’d picked out for the living room. I still really like the clay colour, but I don’t think the green fits. It’s too pastel-y or something, I don’t know. Maybe I’m thinking too much about it.

Here is what the room looks like now, with the Florentine Clay in the background. (Excuse the mess and all the samples painted all over the wall. You can tell the ones Meredith helped with. ) The cover on the futon on the right needs to change, it won’t be staying dark green. We’re thinking cream to match the loveseat, and then I want to make cushion covers for the cushions but the colour of those will depend on the colours we choose for the rooms.

So originally we’d planned on Green Tea for the living room (it’s the little square painted on the wall above the fish tank and below the yellow).

I like the two colours together, but I feel like they might be better off in a bedroom rather than a living area, you know? I can’t quite put my finger on why though. I also had a sample of Pollen Grains which we were thinking of maybe doing in the kitchen. I like the idea of a yellow living room but not sure if it would work with the artwork we want to put up and the curtains. Plus it might end up looking too Mexico or tropical or something with the Florentine Clay.

Then we were thinking maybe a darker, more olive-y green would work and not be as pastel-y. This one is Caraway:

We can’t go too dark since that room is so small, but I think the Caraway might work. Problem is, we don’t really have money to keep buying samples. I’m also thinking of just scrapping the idea of green in there altogether or repainting over the Florentine Clay. But with 55 days to go to baby and a few other projects to do (sewing, more decluttering and organizing, etc.), I’d rather not redo something I’ve already done. Anyway, if any one is out there reading my poor neglected blog and has any ideas or suggestions, I’d love to hear them. I think I’m going to paint our study (which comes off the living room) and the kitchen (off the dining room) the same colour, and likely just a lighter colour of whatever I choose for the living room, since both those rooms are very small.

I’m feeling more and more tired now. I guess though I’ve escaped most of the other pregnancy symptoms I haven’t managed to escape that one. I’m hoping to get all the painting and other projects done in the next month or so but I’m not going to beat myself up if I don’t. Then in February we’ll be making a bunch of meals to freeze for after the baby. Meredith is most definitely allergic to dairy so we’re trying to keep everything dairy-free, which messes up my original meal plan as I had things like lasagne and the like in there. But I just have to be more creative now.

Meredith has been sick the last week or so. She actually hasn’t been feeling too bad most days, but wakes up most nights coughing and having trouble going back to sleep. She also stopped eating for four or five days, which made me very grateful she still nurses as much as she does. It’s nice not to have to worry about dehydration or nutrition on top of everything else that comes with being sick. Unfortunately, she tends to wake up sometime between 2 and 4, and pregnancy insomnia means it’s very hard for me to get back to sleep. I’ve been running on 5 or 6 hours of sleep some nights, and I’m someone who can easily get 9 or 10 a night normally. Thankfully, I haven’t been sick at all. I seem to have avoided every bug Kris or Meredith have caught this pregnancy, save a minor one in September. I wonder if it’s the vitamin D I have been taking not so faithfully, or if my body just realizes I can’t afford to be sick right now lol.

Anyway, hope everyone had happy holidays and the New Year has started out great.

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