My Newest Craze

I've become a little baby crazy lately! I really have no idea why. It's not like I'm pregnant or Seth and I are even trying. . . The other day, I found myself looking at baby furniture on line! What is that about? And I had a dream the other day where Seth and I had a baby, but we had literally nothing prepared! No crib, no clothes, no car seat. . . The baby actually had to sleep on the chest in our bedroom :)

I think this craze may be because of two reasons:

First, Seth and I are in the process of cleaning out the room that will one day be our baby's nursery :) Seth isn't nearly as excited about this as I am, mostly because he knows he will inevitably be buying paint and supplies soon so I can paint the room. Currently, the room is a very dark blood-red color :/ Kind of creepy and not a color that would soothe any future babies! So, I'm having fun looking through paint colors for that room, which I guess led to me looking at furniture. . . Seth wasn't excited about that either ;)

Second, after the new year, Seth and I wrote an extensive to-do list called "Before Baby." It's a list of all the things I want to have done in the house before we introduce a baby into it. The list has 25 tasks, everything from redoing the floors to putting a ceiling up in the basement. So far, we have finished two things and I crossed them off with a very satisfying straight dark line that makes me very happy whenever I look at it :) 

The first task I completed was Organize Old Drawers. Apparently, there are drawers in this house that haven't been cleaned out since all the boys moved out, or even since all the boys moved in. Some of them still had stuff left over from Seth's grandparents :) Oops! I love knowing what's in my drawers now and where I can put things.

The second thing (and something I never thought would happen) was getting a locking trash can for outside. I've wanted one of these for the longest time, and Seth always went on this tirade about how he would never buy a trash can when we have perfectly good ones. Just so you know, perfectly good ones to Seth mean cans that are cracked and disgusting without lids. Anyway, we have several very fat, very happy squirrels that live near our trash cans. These squirrels are fat and happy because their favorite activity is to tear open the trash and strew it all over our yard. I'm quite sure our neighbors don't appreciate it, and I would prefer a trash-free yard as well :) Actually, as I write this, the trash can has fallen over again and the squirrels had dragged several paper towels, a coke bottle and brownie box across the yard. Oy Vey! I can't wait to use the new trash can, and have a cleaner yard. 

When getting married, does anyone realize that these are the things that are going to excite them in a few years? Clean drawers and a new trash can!!