Messy Month And a Half

When we moved into the house last year, we thought it was the perfect size.

Then Babes arrived.

Along with all the baby crap stuff that you manage to pick up along the way - bouncers, toys, clothes, swings, toys, clothes, exersaucers, toys, clothes, etc. Did I mention lots of toys and clothes? Our once huge home with tons of storage was slowly being dwarfed by an infant.

We knew we were going to start trying again in October - we decided to take the "band-aid" approach to parenting and have our kids close together in age - but we hadn't totally thought it through. So once we got pregnant, we began to panic...

Where was this child going to sleep? All the rooms were taken. And we had so much stuff we really couldn't start shuffling things around. Easily.

So the sleepless nights began.

Until I had the brilliant idea...

To finish part of our attic.

Forget that all the baby crap stuff was being stowed up there along with a ton of holiday decorations and stuff from who knows where. It needed to get done. Now. Or else we'd be storing an entire bedroom furniture set in our attic (along with all the other junk stuff).

For the last month and a half, we've been living with our attic storage in our dining room, a bedroom and nursery set in the new nursery, and a whole bunch of miscellaneous items in our guest room (got all that?), all while a portion of our attic was being refinished.

Minus all the crap stuff and plus a few beams, here is what the attic looked like before:

And now it looks like...

A big huge mess! The carpet was finally installed yesterday and today all the storage was finally brought back up, so I've spent the last week and a half pulling together the final touches to finish up the attic. Now that it's finally done, I can actually work on organizing on the nursery and our new space, and emptying out the guest room to make way for some guests!

All while relaxing on doctor's orders.

So there hasn't been much time for blog posts or really much of anything.  BUT, next week I'll have pictures of the newly finished attic and I might even have another giveaway to make up for my lack of posting.

Hope you still puffy heart me. Because I still iridescent oily sticker heart all of you. And everyone knows those were the best stickers to get in a trade.