My room is better!

I'm beginning to think that no part of my home will be perfectly "put together" until the rest of my home is perfectly put together. Every time I start a project and dive in strong, I work like a dog until the day is done, but still don't finish whatever project I've started. This is largely because of the million side projects that I pick up along the way... one day I'll wake up, and it will all be complete. Darren says that's because he'll have done it all ;)

Anyway, today's accidental project was our bedroom. It was supposed to be installing shelves in Emma's closet (shelves that I cut and measure several weeks ago...but got distracted from completing at that time...). Our bedroom has been at the very end of my priority list since moving in since it's not a room that people see. However, I've been feeling pretty cramped in here, and the mess (mostly my mess) was beginning to suffocate me. So I pulled out a box to collect Goodwill stuff, a box to collect stuff that I need to find a place for, some garbage bags, and a paper towel roll with cleaning spray. Once the garbage was mostly bagged up and my junk was piled onto the bed, I REARRANGED THE FURNITURE. Rearranging furniture is NOT something I usually take much pleasure in (thanks to many years of sharing a room with Anne-Marie...a girl way too fond of rearranging her living space). When we first moved into the house, the guys moving our furniture set up the bedroom without my input because I wasn't home. I seeeriously wish they'd waited for my arrival! In any case, the bed was oriented longways across the short distance of the bedroom, shrinking it by a lot. I've been wondering about turning it longways, trying not to hope that it would actually help. IT DOES. The room feels SO much bigger, and I was able to find much better locations for our dressers. It isn't perfect, but goodness. I feel like I can breathe, and decorating feels more appealing.

If anyone wants to donate money to our House Makeover Fund, feel free. I need paint (colors picked out and everything!) and some decor supplies. This room and our bathroom are the next rooms I want to paint. If I could get them painted, I can't even describe the level of accomplishment I would feel.

Oh! I also finally washed our bedsheets again. I honestly don't know how frequently I do so, but every time I do it feels like "finally" is a good word to use. In any case, I looooove laying on fresh bed sheets!

To make up for my ultra boring late night musings (boring to you, maybe....I'm really excited about the new layout of my room! ;) ), here are some pictures to remind you how adorable my daughter is:

Obviously not my daughter, but it makes me laugh. It's like someone took a camera to my insides. 

Among the many activities I love to observe, her "talking on the phone", whether that phone be her hand, mine or Darren's phones, or her play phone, is somewhere close to the top. It's hilarious. She coos and grunts to whomever is on the other end of the line. 

She refuses to approach chairs correctly. Every once in a while she'll sit in the bumbo or her tiny piano chair correctly, but she quickly corrects herself and sits in it her way. And it's not like I don't show her the right way. David said it best by describing her approach to everything as unconventional. Truth. 

We're missing Conner. We got to keep him for a few days last week while Amanda was out of town, and Emma adored every second. They were so fun together.