Today I got away from my kids for an entire day. It was great! Granted, we were an hour late getting home and I was practically jumping out of my skin to hurry up and get back to them but it was still nice to get away. The purpose in hiring a baby-sitter and driving hours to the north was to go to the Temple. We haven't been since Sheri's wedding in June, unless you count our trip to the Louisville Temple in July where we got there just to discover the Temple was closed for maintenance. Bummer.
It was so nice to be in the Temple. Life is so busy that I almost always feel some level of stress but in the Temple all is calm and quiet. Maybe a little too quiet. Cute Girl woke me up WELL before the crack of dawn and refused to go back to sleep or do anything but eat breakfast with her mama. So I kept finding myself snapping back to attention, not remembering having closed my eyes. The Rocket Scientist had no problem - but he did get TWO more hours of sleep than I did.
Afterwards it was almost two o'clock and we were starving. We ate at a little diner place and I had the biggest cheeseburger in the world. It was super yummy but a bit more than my usual pbj. I think I ate a quarter of it - maybe a third. And there were great fries (no trans fat!) and so much Oreo milkshake with real whipped cream that I couldn't even finish it. And that's a capital crime in our household.
And since we were already in debt to the babysitter for a year's worth of paychecks we decided we'd hit Ikea on the way home. I was looking for inspiration for Handsome Face's room (he's still in our permanent baby nursery). And I found this:
I am in love. I can't stop looking at it. It just makes me smile. You can't see them but there is a little blue bird and a bee on the other side of the shade. It's just so happy!
I've been having a really hard time deciding what to do with his room. My only inspiration previously was Handsome Face's sock monkey jack-in-the-box which has very similar colors to the shade. Greens, yellows, reds, and blues. What says "little boy" more?
So the real dilemma is what to do with the walls? I've thought about a shade of brick red with tan bead board, white with dark yellow-green, chair railing... Our other bedrooms consist of one entirely pink room and one room with three light green walls and one yellow. Those rooms were easy. This one's not. What would you do? I'm soliciting all opinions. Ready, set, go!
Friday, October 17, 2008
A Day Off
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Hmm. I LOVE bead board, just because it makes me think of beach cottages. But is it hard to put up/expensive? i know nothing about installation. I like the red idea though--I'm not crazy about yellow, mostly because it's SO hard to find the perfect shade. I did paint Juliet's room mint green, which I absolutely love.
We're so lazy about getting baby sitters. It's such a hassel sometimes b/c all the girls that baby sit in our ward live like 20 min. away and don't drive. It's good to hear when others get baby sitters.
That shade is definitely happy. Since you asked for decorating advice I'm going to go all business woman on you. I'm an independent demonstrator for uppercase living. They have the most beautiful, fun, cute, inspiring expressions (vinyl lettering) to go on walls or wood or tile. Check out my website then click on products to see the online catalog you can now order from. There's a section undering dreaming for boy bedrooms. SO CUTE!
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Yay for going to the temple! It kills me how hard it is with kids sometimes (and our temple is only an hour away, too!). Love, LOVE the shade. It's so friggin' adorable. As for the colors, I love the red and bead-board idea.
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