Progress Report

The nursery is painted! The crib is put together! The rickety old black bookcase is now a nice jade green! This was the week for projects, and they continue on. There are pictures to be hung, thrift stores and fabric stores to be scavenged (for frames, fabric for curtains, etc), crib mattresses to be bought, and so it continues.

Project evidence:

Testing the grays....

Two coats of primer and two coats of paint later....a nice soothing, light gray.

The crib! Note the cats' stuffed bunny underneath...

Battered black bookcase becomes...

Pretty green bookcase!

Ugly $2.50 Goodwill elephant....

Nice new elephant:

Check out the Baby Bjorn we picked up at Boomerang Children's Consignment for $30! J is all ready to wear baby around :).

Other than projects I've been barrelling through John Steinbeck's East of Eden, which J has had on his nightstand for approximately eight months with the intention of reading. He says that if he can "get through that, I can get through anything." Sort of like a confidence boosting read. To me that's like saying, "Oh, I'm just going to run this marathon and then I'll train for the 10k." So I moved the book to my side of the bed and have had trouble putting it down ever since. I read it aloud to baby when J's not home, I'd cried by page 32, I constantly rave about it to J (who then told me he was taking it back - I figure my finishing it first is the best way to motivate him to read it). I love Michael Crichton, but reading two M.C. books in a row and then switching to Steinbeck was a huge reminder of how powerful and heartbreakingly beautiful great literature can be...a healthy dose is needed every now and then.