I was wrong....

THIS is madness.  Last week I posted about how when I am pregnant with summer babies, I apparently get March Madness.  Last week (or was it 2 weeks ago?), I thought I had gone mad because we were talking about moving the rooms around and painting.  I was wrong.  So, so wrong.  Talking about it is one thing.  Actually doing it....that is the maddening part!  We dove in on Saturday cleaning out the "guest room".  I use the term guest room lightly.  It's more like a junk room.  Yeah, I clean it when our parents are coming to visit, but most of the time it's the "Oh crap, people are coming over, throw everything in the "guest room" room"....as is evident by these before pics:

I mean really....who lives like this?  Apparently we do.  I wish I could lie and say "it only looks like this because of.....", but sadly it looks like this until a day before we get out of town guests and then I manage to tidy it up for a weekend.  

Notice the big computer monitor?  Yeah, that's circa 1998.  It has now been properly recycled at a near by computer shop.  

How we have so much crap is beyond me.  It's not like I'm a hoarder.  In fact, I can't stand clutter.  I guess out of sight out of mind though, because I can close this door and not worry about it.  Well, I could...until the madness hit.

So anyway, we started cleaning this room out and finally throwing stuff away, making donation piles, etc.  and as of Saturday evening, we got it to this:

Progress right?  We thought so and were pretty darn proud of ourselves.  The next day we worked even more and decided it made the most sense to get Allie totally moved out of her current room so that we could transfer the guest room into there.  We crammed Allie's bed and dresser into Emily's current room:

Clearly, the madness is starting to get to them as well, as is evident by the facial expressions.  Actually, I don't know who I am kidding...faces like these are a daily occurrence in our house! :-)

We were then able to move the guest room furniture and my sewing stuff into their new home:

So....phase 1 is complete!! 

The room over the garage is now pretty much empty and we have chosen paint colors.  We hope to start painting in there for the girls this weekend and have them all moved in soon.  Then it will be onto the nursery!  It is slowly but surely coming together.  

Stay tuned!

Please Read....

I met Hayley when I first moved to PA almost 4 years ago. She is an incredibly talented "DIYourselfer", but more importantly, she is an incredible mother. Here is the latest blog post she posted. I just want to share it because of it's message. We don't choose our children...they choose us. Ethan chose Hayley because of the amazing way she loves and supports him: 

http://cometothemousehouse.blogspot.com/2012/03/severely-autistic-coming-to-terms.html

Decisions, decisions....

I have March Madness.  Not about NCAA, though I do enjoy the tournament.  I have pregnancy induced March Madness.  It happened when I was pregnant with Emily and it is happening again.  Must be a summer baby thing.  I have gone into hyper organization/redecorating mode.  We have 3 bedrooms upstairs that we are going to be switching around.  Emily's room will become the nursery, Allie's room will become the guest room, and the current guest room/my craft room will become the girls shared room.  All 3 rooms need to be painted.  Hence the madness.  It takes me months to pick out paint color for 1 room.  Now 3 rooms?  Madness.
My husband is a HUGE UNC fan.  Huge.  If it were completely up to him, our son would be named Roy Williams Dean Smith Gravitt.  I told him we could do a UNC nursery for the baby.  That won me tons of awesome wife points which I plan to cash in at just the right moment.  Ordinarily I am not into themed rooms.  It's not that I dislike them, it's just not for me.  This room will have a UNC basketball motif, but there will be no basketball wall borders.  Again, just not my thing.  Ben has a TON of old newspaper articles and magazine covers that we plan on framing and hanging in the room.  He also has an basketball autographed by Michael Jordan that his super cool wife got him.  That too will be going in the room.  He wants his friend to paint the UNC monogram thing (not sure monogram is the right word, but you get it) on one of the walls, but I haven't totally approved that idea yet.  I don't want the room to look like a locker room.
So, anyway, I went to Lowe's today and picked out pretty much every pale blue color they had.  True Carolina blue is a little bright for a nursery, so I'm hoping that I can convince Ben that a paler shade will do the trick.  Because of my aforementioned March Madness, he is treading lightly and pretty much agreeing with whatever I say right now!
So it's decision time.....maybe I should make a bracket and start eliminating tourney style.....

Stay tuned as I *think* progress might start this weekend!!!

Well, hello there....

It has CLEARLY been a long time since I have updated this blog!  I am once again a SAHM with a baby BOY on the way!  We are all very excited here at the HipHickChick house.  Because of our new little addition and my insane nesting, there are many projects either underway or about to get started.  Stay tuned to follow the progress!