Phew...

As I mentioned below, I am in a two week long training for work in Ohio. I arrived on Sunday October 24th and leave tomorrow! I must say two weeks seems like a LONG time these days. I've enjoyed the training but have not enjoyed eating every meal out, and having to do a lot of work in the evening to keep up with my normal duties. Its been quite exhausting!!

I am very excited to report that my husband has officially made progress on the house renovation and the nursery in my absence!! I am quite impressed with his determination to get everything done before I get home. Our house came with a good sized laundry closet right next to the kitchen, but there is no pantry. For a pantry my husband and I have been using a single hanging cabinet in our kitchen. However because that cabinet is stuffed with just two of us in the house, and all the other cabinets are full of dishes, glasses, and serving pieces, I was getting really concerned about how we could integrate a baby into the house. I literally have no where to put a bottle. A few months ago we made the decision to take over the current laundry closet and turn it into a pantry. But this forced us to relocate the washer and dryer. We decided to relocate it to the front of the house into a closet that was basically being used as a junk room. However this required us to do a little renovation to get the closet ready (widening the door frame, getting the closet plumbed/wired/vented, ect). Since I left, the new laundry closet has been constructed and the plumbing and gas for the washer and dryer has been run. All we need is electrical and we should be good to go! I am fortunate to have an electrician in the family so that should be done shortly! Once we get the washer and dryer moved, we can start un-plumbing the other closet and prepping it to become a pantry! Before I left for Ohio, I met with California closets and got a quote from them to build out the new pantry. It is a little pricey, so I am going to call Closets by Design to see if they'll come out and quote it for me. Once we make a decision on who to go with, we should be able to have the new pantry built out within a week or so! I'm really excited to get this project done! We're been talking about it FOREVER!

The other thing DH has been busy with is the nursery. He had the carpenter who was helping us with the closet run the hardwood floor in the baby's room. After that was done, my husband painted all the walls and the ceiling. I am sooooo excited to see everything when I get home. I also received my rug for the nursery so I am excited to get home and put it in the room! Eeek! Everything is actually coming together!!

We decided to go with the Polka Dot Border rug from pottery barn. Hopefully it will look good with the green walls...

Hope everyone has had a good week! Say a little prayer that I make it to my last day of class safely tommorow. They are predicting SNOW here in Ohio! eeeek!