A Bed for the Girl

[same_sky]

Ducky has a bed! With a mattress and a mattress pad and sheets and a bumper pad* and a comforter draped artsily over the side! And the most beautifully ironed dust ruffle in the history of dust ruffles! It is adorable and so much pinker and more pastel than we planned! We have also developed an unreasonable attachment to K-Mart for Ducky items!

We had this really good plan of making the dust ruffle ourselves, using plain coordinating (purchased) sheets, and then making the curtains to match. I loved that idea. We have looked at fabric three times, and have picked out two different ones that we liked. Sewing is still neither of our strongest skills, but I am competent enough for those two projects, I think. Mainly, I refuse to spend $200 (or, more than we paid for the damned crib) for a bedding set that consists largely of pieces that are only for show anyway. Anyway, we went to K-Mart today to see if they had crib mattresses, and they did. It looked good, so we bought the thing, and then we noticed a bedding set that is actually cute, and much cheaper than what the overpriced baby store sells, so we bought it too. I have a teeny bit of buyer's remorse because really, it IS all for show and the only thing we will actually use is the sheet and the dust ruffle (which we had to buy separately anyway). BUT it's cute and so I am officially Not Caring about any of that. At least we have something to build a room on now. Still no curtains, though.

We also bought laundry detergent suitable for cloth diapers. So, I guess I can wash those imaginary diapers that the child doesn't even have yet. Umm. I need to get on that ordering thing.

We were supposed to have friends over tonight, but he has to go on a business trip, so we rescheduled for next weekend, when they will arrive in time to help us cook. What a deal! I was planning on making sveedish meatballs, and J (sveedish herself) wanted to learn how we did it because hers fell apart. I will also mash some potatoes (because, I love me some mashed potatoes) but other than that, what should accompany meatballs (with gravy) and mashed potatoes? Traditional side dishes for meatballs would be good since I am cooking for an expat Swede but are not required. I know I cook for an expat Swede EVERY SINGLE DAY but M is remarkably unfussy about stuff like that, and besides, that has totally lost the novelty factor.

The cancellation of our dinner plans is what drove us out to do the above shopping. (It occurs to me that most of what we have bought for the child can fit into the "places to put her" category. Not sure what that says.) I have nagged M for at least six months to take the cans to recycling, but he has been putting me off because he didn't want to do it. It's been on the list and everything! Meanwhile, the cans have been piling up in the garage in large bags. There is no room to do anything in the garage, partly because of the cans, so it has to be cleaned in order for M to have room to refinish the bedroom furniture for the baby's room. The recycling place is only open on Saturday mornings, which means that all he's had to do is stall me until lunchtime and he gets out of it for another week. Isn't that the way it always is--projects requiring other projects requiring other projects to even get started? I would like the furniture to have time to stop stinking of paint, too, and give me somewhere to put all the cute little things I'm accumulating, so that's sort of a high priority, so I fussed until we got it done. That meant we were downtown, which meant we had to eat lunch, and then we were "nearly there" so we went to the fabric store, and then we thought we'd stop in here and there for baby items. It was a spectacularly pleasant day, full of fun and much quality time, and we were out having fun instead of cleaning the house for company, so that made it even better. Of course, the house still looks like a tornado went through it and I am now so tired that sitting upright is challenging, but still! Ducky has a bed!

*Yeah, it will come off when she's actually here, because otherwise scary people in pregnancy communities yell at you. Comforter, too.

Comments

[sweet-pickles.livejournal.com]

I like lingonberries with Swedish meatballs (and gravy and mashed potatoes). We found a jar in the pancake syrup section of a big chain grocery store once. Cranberry sauce would probably do in a pinch.

[e11en.livejournal.com]

We have the bumper on Anders's crib now, though we didn't have it when he was younger. In the beginning, they can't move and they pretty much stay where you put them so there really isn't much to worry about. But you also don't need it since they aren't going anywhere. We put it in there when Anders was probably 9 months old or something and taken to flailing himself around the crib, making these horrible sounding bonks with his head against the sides of the crib. I figured he was beyond the age when I really thought he would asphyxiate himself but he was waking himself up from the bonks.

[kapuhi.livejournal.com]

Inapropos place to leave this, but I ran across this today and thought of you. Also of me, to be honest. :)

Doctor to patient:
I have good news and bad news.
The good news is that you are not a hypochondriac.