by Blue-Eyed Bride on February 27, 2009
Before Christmas, Todd and I finally broke down and bought a replacement sink and console for our downstairs bathroom. The house was renovated right before we moved in, but the previous owners decided to keep all of the original fixtures in the bathroom.
It looked kind of cute, but the sink was such a pain to use. The mirror doubled as a medicine cabinet and was so tiny that you could barely see your whole face in it. The original tile is still on the floor and we absolutely love it. It is very tiny black and white tiles. All of the doors in our house are black and have all of the original hardware, so we wanted to find something that looked like the rest of the house for our bathroom.
This is also the bathroom that we’ll use when we bathe our little boy. Here is a picture of the bathroom before:
The original sink had a spout for hot water and a spout for cold water. The bathroom also had zero storage, so we purchased the basket in the above picture to hold towels and wash cloths for our guests.
And here is a picture of the bathroom after:
The adorable shower curtain that we had made with my mom’s help at Calico Corners in Dallas.
You can see the new sink and mirror on the right. We also reversed the direction of the door swing so that it opens out into the hall instead of into the bathroom. This gives us so much more space and allowed us to get a bigger sink console without having the door hit it when it was opened into the bathroom.
We’ve been very happy with it. I think we still kept a lot of the charm of the bathroom in our 1930s house, but everything functions like it’s brand new!
by Blue-Eyed Bride on February 26, 2009
Today is my husband’s 29th birthday!
Everyone give him a big birthday shout out!
His own little boy will be born this year, so I think we’ll have a brand new appreciation of birthdays in June.
Oh, and thank you so much to Penny Lane Designs for adding the adorable “little something extra” in my blog header! Can y’all tell what it is? It’s so sweet! Thanks, Marina!
by Blue-Eyed Bride on February 24, 2009
It’s Fat Tuesday! Happy Mardi Gras! I’ve got about 100 different songs going through my head today as I celebrate this holiday from a distance. Our neighbor and friend made us an authentic king cake (she’s from Louisiana, too), my cousin shipped one to me a few weeks ago, and then I found another king cake on our doorstep this morning from my sweet parents. The note said, “laissez les bon temps rouler.”
I had a good doctor’s appointment this morning. I am officially 24.6 weeks pregnant. My Glucola test was today. I had to fast to prepare for this appointment and I had to drink the yummy glucola orange drink this morning that tastes like a flat Sunkist. After drinking this stuff, I had to wait an hour for it to get into my system so they could take my blood and test for gestinational diabetes. While I waited, I got weighed and heard the baby’s little heartbeat again. Everything sounded great. I’ll go back in 4 weeks for another sonogram and will get to do the 4D sonogram on this visit. Just one more visit until I start going every two weeks. Time is flying!
In honor of Fat Tuesday, here is a list of all of the songs that make me think of New Orleans and/or Mardi Gras:
Let the Good Times Roll- Shirley and Lee
Mardi Gras Mambo- The Hawkettes
The House of the Rising Sun- The Animals
King of New Orleans- Better than Ezra
This Time of Year- Better than Ezra
Iko Iko- Dixie Cups
They All Asked for You- The Meters
When the Saints Go Marching In
What songs remind you of Mardi Gras? Who else is celebrating from a distance?
by Blue-Eyed Bride on February 21, 2009
My husband is interviewing hopeful new attorneys this morning, so he is spending the morning and the early part of the afternoon at the law school. I was able to partially catch up on my sleep this morning and do some “nesting.” We have a four bedroom house, so we had two guest bedrooms, a study, and our master bedroom. We initially decided to turn the study into the nursery because it was the brightest, cheeriest room in the house. We moved all of our study furniture out and then realized we didn’t have anywhere to put all of our stuff! We realized that it seemed ridiculous to have two guest bedrooms that may only be used twice a year and then try to cram our own stuff into nooks and crannies in the house.
We decided a couple of weeks ago to turn one of the guest bedrooms into our new home office and get a “family computer.” We both spend so much time together on our laptops and when the baby comes we don’t want to be doing that anymore. Not that it will be as much of an option, right? We also realized that needed to have somewhere for a third guest to sleep in case my parents and brother visit at the same time. A chair and a half was our solution! We ordered an oversized chair and ottoman and the chair is a hide-a-bed with a twin bed inside. Perfect solution!
Here is the new study. We painted it Silver Sage (a Restoration Hardware color that Benjamin Moore kindly matched for us) two nights ago. We haven’t hung anything on the walls yet because we’re still deciding on some organization pieces.
My next post will have pictures of the downstairs bathroom updates and pictures of the furniture we just had reupholstered. No nursery pictures yet!
by Blue-Eyed Bride on February 20, 2009
Last Saturday, Fiona sat down beside me so I could talk to her about the baby. Boudreaux has been very aware that something is different and he often comes around to sniff my baby bump. Can dogs smell babies? Anyway, Fiona seems to want to refuse to believe that things are going to be a little different in June.
I keep telling both dogs that they need to be my helpers and set good examples for the baby when it comes to crying, playing nice, and potty training.
On another note, this week has been really rough on me as far as sleep goes. I’m just not falling asleep until 1:00 or 2:00 a.m. I will lie in the bed and just wait to fall asleep. I think a lot of it is because I’m worried about the many projects and events I have going on at work, but the rest is just the general aches and pains that have come along with the pregnancy. Neck pain, shoulder pain, lower back pain. I fall into the deepest sleep right around 5:00 a.m. and then I know it’s too late. It’s just a shame I have somewhere to be every morning, otherwise I’d be sleeping until I can’t sleep anymore.
Here’s how I feel about not getting any sleep!
ETA: I was totally aware that my white shirt was so see-through that you could see the big “secret fit” waste sitting way up on my waste through the shirt. It does look a bit ridiculous, though!
by Blue-Eyed Bride on February 19, 2009
Baby Boy Carroll is really growing. My bump has definitely doubled in size in the past five weeks and I have a hard time recognizing myself when I look in the mirror. I’ve also been reading to Baby Boy a lot lately and have been using his name more. I’ve actually almost let the name slip quite a few times, so I need to be careful!
This picture was taken today. I wore the same shirt I wore for the 22 week picture, so you can see the full effect. You can also see how much my face is expanding– and if you say it’s not you’re just being sweet. Pretty soon my cheeks are going to be so big that you won’t be able to see my eyes. Then I’ll be the No-Eyed Bride. Yeah, that wasn’t that funny.
I found all of my favorite books from my childhood in a box and I’m so excited to get the nursery finished so I can put the books on the shelves and start reading them again. I’ve also been downloading lots of fun music for him to listen to in his room. We’re getting a little iPod shuffle and small iPod dock just for Baby Boy, so I’ve been searching for good music for him to listen to. “Rockabye” is amazing! I’ve downloaded songs by the Beatles, Coldplay, and the Eagles rearranged in a lullabye way and they’re so sweet and familiar. Elizabeth Mitchell also has some great music for children that is just so cute! Music was such a big part of my house when I was growing up and I want the same thing for him.
I also downloaded a bunch of my favorite children’s music from church and have that ready to go. I can’t wait to sing to him and then finally hear him start singing back! I’m going to cry just writing about it. We’ll sing Zaccheus, Jesus Loves Me, You are My Sunshine. Oh, I love him so much!
by Blue-Eyed Bride on February 18, 2009
It’s raining cats and dogs here in Columbia today! I woke up this morning and right after I finished drying my hair I ran to my computer to check out Reality Steve. I knew he had a huge, shocking, spoiler regarding The Bachelor that he was revealing today and I couldn’t wait until I got to work to find out!
Before I went to his website I checked my email and saw that my friends Mojito Maven and LyndsAU had already checked out the spoiler. I just have to say that I’m shocked, but I’m not shocked. I knew that something horrible was going to happen, but didn’t know exactly what. I’m just glad that the suspense is over. Anyway, if you’re into reality TV spoilers, go visit Reality Steve to read the posts and watch the You Tube clips. Poor Melissa! And you know all those other rejected bachelorettes are thanking their lucky stars they got out when they did!
(I want to thank Tara from Jimmy Choos and Tennis Shoes for letting me know about this website a couple of weeks ago in her Bachelor update post. I’ve been glued to it ever since!)
I’m also so excited because I won an amazing giveaway today! I won Bama Belle’s Bliss Spa giveaway! I’m addicted to Bliss products and they’re all I use on my face, so this is such an amazing giveaway and I’m completely shocked that I won. I never win anything! Thank you so much, Bama Belle!
Lost is on tonight and something excited is bound to happen there, too! I’m also going to spend the evening painting my study– and future home office. There’s a little project in the works that I can’t wait to share with all of you!
by Blue-Eyed Bride on February 16, 2009
So this may make me a very unpopular blogger today, but I wanted to give an update on Confessions of a Shopaholic. I went to see it with four fabulous girls last night and the company was great! We had all gone to see He’s Just Not That Into You last Sunday night and loved it.
I’ve read two books in the Shopaholic series, so I was kind of invested in the movie. I was really excited about watching a chick flick with some fun chicas and getting some great eye candy from all the fantastic fashion. The movie was styled by The Pat Fields, so it had to be great. Wrong. The clothes weren’t even that great!
I found myself getting bored about twenty minutes in and I covered my face with embarrassment at least twenty times. There were lots of those, “I can’t watch” moments. Does anyone else do that? I think the worst movie for me was Meet the Parents. That movie makes me so unbelievably uncomfortable that I have to leave the room when I watch it.
I didn’t have high expectations for the movie. I was entertained enough for a Sunday night. It’s just not going to be one of those that I must watch again even if it’s on TBS on a Sunday afternoon. I always stop to watch The Devil Wears Prada for its funny acting by Meryl Streep and fabulous clothes!
If you loved the movie, please don’t hate me for writing this!
ETA: This is just my opinion. I am not an expert on the books and I didn’t have high expectations of the movie. I was just looking for a fun movie to watch with fun girls. It met that criteria. I wasn’t disappointed, but I just don’t need to see it again. There were plenty of funny parts, but I looked at my watch a lot during the movie. The books frustrated me just as much as the movie did, so I knew what I was getting into. It was still entertaining.
by Blue-Eyed Bride on February 15, 2009
We had a great Valentine’s Day. Even though we agreed on “no gifts,” Boudreaux and Fiona still surprised me with the remaining two Sonya Renee necklaces with my other two initials on them, roses, a series of five prenatal massages, and truffles from Lexington, Virginia’s Cocoa Mill. They went a little overboard. I felt so bad that I missed the underlying truth that we really would get gifts. Our dinner last night was fantastic and I can’t even put into words how good everything was.
We’re off to Sunday school and church in about twenty minutes and, as usual, I’m looking forward to seeing everyone there. And hopefully I’m going to see the Shopaholic movie tonight with some of the girls.
I hope everyone had a great Valentine’s Day, too!
by Blue-Eyed Bride on February 13, 2009
Todd and I are headed out to meet some friends for Thai food tonight. We plan to spend our Valentine’s Day picking out paint colors for the nursery and my new home office. We’ve got all of the swatches for the nursery together, so we can finally choose a paint color.
We decided not to do gifts this year for Valentine’s Day, but we’re going to splurge on a fabulous dinner at Garibaldi’s tomorrow night.
Happy Valentine’s Day, blog friends!
