Eleanor, Week 1

Remember my weekly photo project?  Well, I may be crazy, but yeah, I'm doing one for the baby.  A photo a week of Miss Eleanor, at least for year one.  Wish me luck!

P.S. I had the baby, by the way.  ;)  Will try to post an actual birth story/OMG we had the baby story soon.  Life with a newborn doesn't leave a lot of time for blogging - imagine that!

Pregnancy Update

Well, I'm now two days past my due date!  That's the pregnancy update so far.  I've had a really good, positive pregnancy, but am definitely getting a little fidgety and impatient now.  I have a check-up ultrasound and appointment on Monday and am penciled in for an induction on Wednesday afternoon if nothing happens naturally before then.  In the meantime, I worked from home this week and am officially on maternity leave as of this weekend.  Trying to just enjoy the time off, get some final projects done, and not stress too much about the baby taking her sweet time to show up.

Since this is probably my last pregnancy post (not that I did that many), I though I'd post my first and last pregnancy selfies.  Maybe if I get bored this weekend, I'll post the other 22.  ;)

8 weeks

40 weeks

Garden House Progress

Well, the garden house isn't done by any means, but I've been moving things around and hanging things up and it's looking pretty good!  It still needs a good spring clean (mopping, vacuuming, and de-cobwebbing), plus some sheets, pillows, blankets for the bed, but I can live with it like this for now!

Happy Birthday!

So I kinda missed this on Thursday, but this week marked the 8th anniversary of the beginning of my blog in 2006. It's certainly been a little neglected lately, but it is still here and I still write occasionally and I find that amazing.

When I stop and think about where I was, both geographically and in my life, 8 years ago, it's just a totally different life. There was nothing wrong with that life, it was a lovely one, but living in my own house with my husband and three dogs and a baby on the way is just so awesome and so different than when I was a young single women in an apartment in Somerville in 2006.  Crazy.

Happy birthday, Hodoeporicon!

Bedroom Updates

In an effort to get a lot of house projects done before there's a little baby requiring our weekend (and 24/7) attention, we've been working through some back burner projects both large and small lately.  The baby's room had to get done, of course, but we've also bought a new sofa bed and storage bed and wardrobe for our own storage.  And, we painted our bedroom this past week and have plans to paint the dining room next weekend.

Below are two images of our bedroom, one taken in 2011 and one taken yesterday.  The recent one is not finished, as I still have to hang the St. Andrews poster back up and "zhush" the room a bit more, but I know which one I definitely prefer!

2011:

2014:

Perspective

Today, Jenna over at Cold Antler Farm posted a photo taken at her farm in 2013, 12 weeks from today.  I see her photo and raise her one photo taken here last year, just 8.5 weeks from today!

Spring is coming, guys, I swear it.