Sunday Delivery

Our nursery furniture was delivered late this afternoon. It was an exciting feeling to have major pieces in the room to actually see how much space we have left. After seeing the pieces in the room, I am more excited about pulling the finishing touches to the room to transform it into the nursery. It was kind of like a surreal moment when I saw the furniture placed into the room.  

One thing that I can say is that it is good to get your major pieces in because big pieces take up a lot of room and it clearly gives you a realistic view of what else can be added. We measured beforehand, but it is nothing like having the actual pieces in the room. It is very easy to get carried away ordering too many pieces.  

My hubby is walking to greet the delivery guys. 

Sneak Peek of the crib

Sneak Peek of the crib!

Here is a cropped picture of the crib that we took in the store when we placed our order and we never posted any pictures of our final selections. 

Hubby said that it was okay to crop the picture to post since it is not really showing anything. I have a few people that wanted to see what it actually looked like. Well, here is what I am showing to give you an idea. 

I will post pictures of the nursery once the items have arrived at our home and are in place while we are finishing the room. 

 I am trying to be really good and not post pictures until later. I think that this is easier for men than for women! 

    Let me know what ya think! 

3 week turn around

3 week turn around on our nursery furniture....it has arrived at the store

We received a phone call from the baby furniture store that we used on March 25th advising us that all of our pieces were in! We were initially given an eta of 6-8 weeks for the furniture when we placed the order March 7th.

Something told me to check the voicemail and caller id on our home phone and sure enough there was a message from our consultant in the store advising us that our pieces were in. We were pleasantly surprised being that we were not expecting the items in until late April or Early May. My husband listened to the message and he gave me the thumbs up sign!

With all that was going on that week I did not post this good news. It brought some sunshine to my day considering the news that I had received the day before regarding my cousins. I am pleased to know that our major pieces are in. We are back to working on the room since we had slacked off a little bit because we thought that we had plenty of time.

We are getting ready to order the chair and another piece from a different store. We are narrowing down neutral fabric selections.

While we were at my parents home after the funeral, my parents surprised and blessed us with a nice check for additional nursery items. I am a true kid at heart and it was like Christmas times ten! I love my parents and I am so blessed to have them in my life. Early the next morning while we were still sleeping, my parents peeked in to say their goodbyes and their requests for us to call them upon our arrival back in our state. They also added that more was coming in addition to the check that they blessed us with which was more than enough for us. I love unexpected surprises.

I am trying to stay true to my word and not post any pictures up of the furniture of the nursery or crib until things are completed or almost completed. I do not want to go against Hubby's wishes. So, maybe I can get him to crop a corner picture of the crib as a teaser? Probably not. We will see. I have been taking pictures all along, so I will be able to show the transformation later.

Oh, by the way, that same night at my parents home on March 30th, I received a phone call from another local adoptive parent buddy of mine around 10:15 pm. I was kind of drained from the funeral earlier that afternoon. She called to tell me that there was a set of twins that needed placement from the agency that she used out of Texas last year.

The twins arrived early and they were searching for an AA couple or biracial couple that were completed with their HS. Well, we have our last visit and thats it. We were not too pressed because that was the last major thing that we have on our list besides completing our profile book. So, I told her that we were not finished, but would be soon and I also contacted her agency so that we could get information on having our name with them if we needed to have a back up plan behind and not use our agency later. The twins were placed with a family and I am so happy it happened quickly. I guess this was a sign for us that we need to stop dragging our feet and complete the final hs visit.

(Thank you for thinking about us Nikki and referring us to your agency as well!)

I am slowly but surely coming back around.