Making Room for Baby
When you are the master of your domain, and your domain just so happens to be a whopping 960 sq ft [including a dog-cage style storage space in your basement and postage stamp-sized balcony], fitting two grown adults and a dog can be a bit of a challenge. Add a baby into the mix and it gets to be downright humorous.
Making room for baby has been quite a challenge for us. We're getting creative with where we store her things...and our things...and the dog's things. This mostly involves us purging our worldly possessions...
...and by purging I mean us hiding the last decade of our belongings in nooks, crevices and hidden spaces at my mother-in-law's house...let's just hope she doesn't go upstairs anytime soon or she may fall over with a heart attack at the amount ofcrap things we can't bear to throw away that we've stored there unbeknownst to her...
But let's just keep that our little secret. Mmmk?
The plan is to move. Eventually.
Actually...the plan was to move from our condo a good 3-4 years ago. But the market tanked and you all know how that song and dance plays out.
So here we stay a little while longer. At least until Baby Jay is mobile and taking over our tiny living quarters. Until then, all of her stuff is taking over our tiny living quarters. How could someone so small have SO MUCH STUFF?! And she's not even here.
Sigh.
...and this is only the beginning. The very beginning. There are more pieces to assemble and clothes to wash and fold and toys to organize and things to buy [like car seats and carriers and safety nick knacks and baby mattresses and monitors] and not to mention all the classes we still have to take. And seriously...why are these classes all so stupidly expensive!?
And one day, perhaps we'll have our adult bedroom back. [Oh? Did I not tell you the kiddo is shacking up with us in our bedroom since again, we live in the smallest one bedroom condo in all of Chicagoland?! Because she is. We'll see just how long this arrangement lasts...I give it all of 2 weeks before a sleep-deprived momma runs off and checks herself into amental institution hotel for a bit of shut eye.] But until then, her things are slowly taking over.
Like this shelf here. When empty, it seems rather unassuming and a rather nice fit with our home decor. But add diapering necessities, a ceramic bunny, a jar of oversized flowery headbands, and baskets upon baskets of blankets and sleepers and bibs and first aid thingies like nail clippers, thermometers, and bizarrely disgusting snot suckers, and our bedroom suddenly morphs into babyland central. And the crib isn't even in there yet!
But anyway...the aforementioned shelf...
And where exactly we plan on putting her wardrobe? I'm not quite sure. But since my life is apparently relegated to high-waisted, tapered mom jeans and yoga pants for a while, no doubt I'll be cleaning out my closet for her adorable attire. Afterall, she's already more fashionable than me [thanks in large part to Katrina].
And now for the BEST! THING! EVER! [After a cute little baby girl, of course...]
But we are down to a mere 47 days. And 47 days is not nearly enough to get all of our poop in a group.
...and no joke, the other half just said "Not to scare you, but did you know we have about a month and a half left?!"
Oh good sweet grilled cheezus, what have we gotten ourselves into? And how can we make our tiny little abode miraculously turn into 1200+ sq ft overnight?
Making room for baby has been quite a challenge for us. We're getting creative with where we store her things...and our things...and the dog's things. This mostly involves us purging our worldly possessions...
...and by purging I mean us hiding the last decade of our belongings in nooks, crevices and hidden spaces at my mother-in-law's house...let's just hope she doesn't go upstairs anytime soon or she may fall over with a heart attack at the amount of
But let's just keep that our little secret. Mmmk?
The plan is to move. Eventually.
Actually...the plan was to move from our condo a good 3-4 years ago. But the market tanked and you all know how that song and dance plays out.
So here we stay a little while longer. At least until Baby Jay is mobile and taking over our tiny living quarters. Until then, all of her stuff is taking over our tiny living quarters. How could someone so small have SO MUCH STUFF?! And she's not even here.
Sigh.
...and this is only the beginning. The very beginning. There are more pieces to assemble and clothes to wash and fold and toys to organize and things to buy [like car seats and carriers and safety nick knacks and baby mattresses and monitors] and not to mention all the classes we still have to take. And seriously...why are these classes all so stupidly expensive!?
And one day, perhaps we'll have our adult bedroom back. [Oh? Did I not tell you the kiddo is shacking up with us in our bedroom since again, we live in the smallest one bedroom condo in all of Chicagoland?! Because she is. We'll see just how long this arrangement lasts...I give it all of 2 weeks before a sleep-deprived momma runs off and checks herself into a
Like this shelf here. When empty, it seems rather unassuming and a rather nice fit with our home decor. But add diapering necessities, a ceramic bunny, a jar of oversized flowery headbands, and baskets upon baskets of blankets and sleepers and bibs and first aid thingies like nail clippers, thermometers, and bizarrely disgusting snot suckers, and our bedroom suddenly morphs into babyland central. And the crib isn't even in there yet!
But anyway...the aforementioned shelf...
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| "B" It's not just for baby. |
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| The best part about having a girl? All the ridiculously awesome clothes that come with it. Here's a small sample of some of the clothes my sister's friend sent us. And yes....Girls do indeed Rule! |
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| The dresser that was put together with the tiniest of allen wrenches and a truckload of willpower! And 3.5 hours later, we finally had a complete dresser. Here's to hoping the crib doesn't take as long... |
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| And quite possibly my most favorite baby item yet! If only there was a baby for me to take running...soon enough!! |
...and no joke, the other half just said "Not to scare you, but did you know we have about a month and a half left?!"
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| 33 Weeks...where did the time go? |
posted by Iron Jayhawk at 10:56 PM
3 Camper Comments:
whooo! it's tough making space in a small space! We have more space than you guys, but now adding kid number 2 and we are like wait...um? where does the new kid go? shelves. and more shelves :)
It's perfect, just how it is. You'd have her in your room anyway.
Congrats. Good luck with the space - we still have our condo as well. Renters are amazing - not that you need any more motivation to move. Good luck with everything.
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