So bright I gotta wear shades

Let's switch gears for a second.  Talking too much about how I have a bum uterus can get kind of depressing and it takes my mind off of all the amazing blessings I have in my life.  Namely, this one.

She's pretty amazing.

This awesome hunk o' man isn't so bad either.

My point is, I got a lot going for me and if things stayed just as they are forever, that wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.  I mean, I'd love for Sofia to have a little brother or sister and if I never had another child, there'd probably always be a longing in my heart, but I'd keep going.  We'd all keep going.

So, let's chat about some cool fun stuff like decorating!  My awesome hunk o' man was quite busy this weekend and I'm oh so grateful to him for it because he fixed up our living room.  You know, when he isn't swamped with work, Drew is actually a pretty handy guy.  He actually knows how to do stuff and this past weekend he put lights in our living room all by himself!  I'm so proud I want to show you pictures of our updated living room.  Wanna see?

This is what it looked like right after we moved in.

Then we painted, bought some new furniture and it started to look a little more like home.

After that, we had a computer desk built and I stained and painted it.
The wires were a mess, but Drew my handy awesome hunk o' husband took care of that.
He ran outlets inside each shelf up top so the wires didn't have to hang down.

There are still a couple of wires, but it's nowhere near as messy as before.
I still need to get some pulls for the doors and decorate the desk area and 
then all the wires will be completely concealed.

That brings us to the entry.

I moved the office cabinet thingy in place of the drawer thingy, but it was huge
and dark and not right for the space.
Plus, I couldn't put it flush against the wall because of the baseboard heat.

So I sold the cabinet to my girlfriend and we make a field trip to Ikea.
That's Drew throwing things at me.
He's so mature.

We bought an Expedit and he and Sofia made short work of putting it together.

He found the studs to safely wall mount it.

Some heavy-duty anchors and heavy-duty drilling,
and it was on the wall.
I have my bookcases!

Finally, I have books in the living room. 
With that and the book wall, our house has a soul again!
I'm not sure if I should add legs or something underneath the bookcase to 
sort of 'ground' it or just leave it blank.
What do you think?

One of these days we're going to have that brown chair reupholstered.
Or sell it.  It's too big for the room but damn if it isn't super comfortable.
It's just that the re-upholstery quotes I've gotten so far are nasty expensive and I'm having trouble pulling the trigger.
So for now, this is how it is.

 THEN!  On Memorial Day, Drew spent the day doing more electrical stuff.
First, he took the ceiling fan down.

It was broken and made the ceiling feel much lower than it was.
I don't have pictures of taking it down because it took the both of us to get it done and
you can imagine what a hole in the ceiling looks like.

Then he did some more sawing and drilling and put recessed lights in the ceiling.
The living room is the only one in the house with no lights; we had to make do with
lamps and such but we'd always wanted more light.

Et voila!
Lights in the ceiling!
Drew did an AMAZING job and I'm so proud of him.
You can even dim them for that sexy mood lighting.
He put a dimmer on the dining room light too because he was on such a roll.

The lights are awesome, my husband is awesome, my kid is awesome, and you know what?  My life is pretty awesome.

We have several other projects on the list and now that Drew isn't traveling as much, we're going to tackle them one by one.  Next up is Sofia's big girl room.

Sofia has had her toddler bed for a week now and it's been pretty cool.

She slept through the night the first few nights, but then she got a cold and 

her sleeping went to shit.  

She's doing well staying in her bed but she can't breathe, poor thing, so she's not sleeping well.  I'm hoping that once she's better she'll go back to normal.

We also want to make the laundry room pretty, I want to properly decorate the guest room and I think the time has come to paint the bedroom.

The greeny gold is nice, but we're feeling like we need to make our room more grown-up.

I'm not really sure what this means and why that means we need to paint, 

or where we're going to end up but it should be fun.

So, that's what going on over here.  As you can see, I'm trying to keep myself occupied and keep my mind off of the whole baby business.  I see my doctor this afternoon and hopefully we can work together and make a plan.  In the meantime, I'm gonna decorate the crap out of this house and it's going to be great.  Positive thinking is a real thing and it really works and like they say, I'm too blessed to be stressed.

As a matter of fact, I think it's a great day to take Sofia to the park.  There's not too much that some time on the swings can't solve.

This kid.

This kid right here.

She makes the future bright.