a day of doing

Shea and I were out most of the morning and afternoon.  Jeremy ended up working last minute, but we had planned to take a trip to Bremerton to pick up our EBT card (just got monthly food benefits, and boy, is it a help!) and then go grocery/thrift store shopping.  He thought he wouldn't be working too long, so Shea and I left an hour after him and went to McDonalds so Shea could play for a  bit while we waited for Jeremy to get done working.  Jeremy wasn't going to be done any time soon though, so after about 40 minutes, we headed out to the DSHS office ourselves.  It was super fast and Shea was SO good while we did have to wait.  Then we went grocery shopping - which was a major stock up shopping trip (for us, anyway).  I was a little overwhelmed though, because now that we had some extra money, I can get some things we don't normally buy or better quality items (like organic produce, better meat, etc.)  but also wanted to get home, because I was tired and Shea needed lunch and a nap.  Anyway, it was about 2PM by the time we got home and finally had lunch!  Shea was such a trooper though, he hardly complained the whole time, but was definitely ready for a nap - he slept for THREE hours!

I was tired, but knew I had a lot I wanted to get done today, so I turned on my pandora, made a chai-tea latte and wrote this on my computer screen once nap-time began:

Although I didn't get to the sewing room (pretty sure it got messier since its the catch-all room right now), I did do some major bedroom cleaning/rearranging today, which was definitely worth it.

First, I'll show you my pantry.  Tiny, impossible to find ANYTHING, I took everything out and put it on our kitchen table.  Including the empty boxes which hadn't been recycled yet...oh shame.  Okay, so those were on the floor, apparently.

Then put it all back in!  Not like cute or special, but organized and we can SEE everything now.  Much better.

Then, our bedroom.  I don't know if I've ever posted a picture of our bedroom.  This is the after.  Where the rocking chair is, was where the dresser used to be.  Where the dresser is, was where a tv stand and unused TV used to be.  The tv stand has my shoes in it - it went in the closet.  The TV is actually still sitting on the floor at the foot of the bed until I find a new home for it.  The picture frame on the wall above the rocking chair is just a place holder.  It happened to be the EXACT size of our breaker box and is hiding it, haha.  But I don't like the frame or whats inside of it, so I'll be painting and putting something new in...and hopefully adding more artwork to that wall to look at while I'm nursing/rocking the baby.  Anyway, I like this arrangement much better.  I also moved the hamper you can sort of see to the right in the picture into the bathroom.

And, last, Shea's clothes.  This has been much needed for MONTHS.  Jeremy will dress Shea in clothes that are too small and then when I came home and discovered it, I just threw them up on the shelf in his bedroom until I got to sorting them all.  This meant clothes falling on me every time I went to change Shea's diaper.  Super annoying.

So I took out all of his clothes, divided them by size, made a pile of donation clothes and consignment clothes, and then picked out what was gender-neutral enough that Hailey could wear.  Then I organized them into two bins:

Now just need a place to store them.

Another fun project I've been working on - baby headbands!  I am literally obsessed with making these, and have several more flowers to attach to headbands.  I think I need to give some away or sell them though, because there is no way one child needs this many variations of headbands.

Oh and the pink cash box I recently thrifted.  Isn't it cute?  I think it will go on a shelf by Hailey's things and I'm going to put some jewelry I've saved since I was really little in it for her to have some day.  Her wardrobe has been growing - I'll have to lay it all out and take a picture some time!  She is going to have way too many clothes by the time I finish sewing and have showers.  Ah well.  A girl needs to be spoiled a little bit, right?

And I posted this one on facebook, but here is my belly pic from this week!  Partly because these are my new curtains I found at Goodwill for $7!! I love them and they are in front of our sliding door.  I'll have to post a picture of our little "entryway" that I made soon, but that will have to wait for another day.

My husband came home early from his men's group and is waiting patiently for me to get off the computer so we can go to bed. So, GOODNIGHT!