April 2019 Moms
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Projects to get done?
mrstmoose
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I'm sure all of us have projects or things we want/need to get done around the house? What are yours? Baby related or not!
Re: Projects to get done?
2) Add a toilet and sink to the basement near the existing shower
3) Convert half the basement to a playroom
4) Repaint DS's room and convert to a nursery
5) Declutter every effing room
I’ll probably decorate up the baby’s room at least a little. Maybe get some cute art and a mobile.
But, our biggest project is that we need to shorten some kitchen cabinets. We’ve lived in this house for a year and a half, and we still don’t have a fridge in our house because it won’t fit. Modern fridges are too tall for our 1950s cabinets. So right now we actually have to go to the garage to get food from the fridge. Lol
2. Install my bedroom ceiling fan
3. Finish putting down the quarter round for my new floors downstairs
4. Get DH to put his crap away. He has comics/toys/clutter all over the living room/kitchen from being home for two months for his ankle surgery, and now that he's back to work, I need this mess cleaned up! It's driving me insane.
DD born: 3/31/19
Right now the future baby's room is currently a catch all room so that will all need to be taken care of, then just painting and decorating. I do my own canvas paintings so that generally takes a while but I won't start that until we find out the gender
BFP: 8/11/18 Due: 4/26/18
2. Repaint DD room and change her bed from a toddler bed to a twin. It won't be that hard. We just need to ask my mom to watch her one Saturday and it will get done.
3. Obviously get baby's room ready. It's currently where we have put all the big baby gear from DD.
4. Finish shelving in the garage.
5. Stain the fence.
6. Landscape front yard.
Seriously, why is DH being a pain? I can just hire someone to do #1 and everything else is fairly easy!
We need to:
1. Finish painting- rest of downstairs, all the extra bedrooms (nursery included) and the guest bathroom.
2. New window treatments in a good portion of the house (we've bought some already)
3. Finish unpacking-it's only been 2 months, and I've been battling fatigue and nausea most of that time
4. Powerwash outside of house
5. Fix ice maker
6. Hang pictures/decor (what little I have, I've completely changed color schemes from our condo to this house, so I got rid of most decor)
7. Fix our bedroom door so it stays open
This is just the list of things I can think of. We've already painted a good portion of the house, hung some window treatments, fixed the sprinkler system, hubby is obsessed with the lawn so he's done fertilizer/weed killer etc, with more to do, and replaced all the smoke detectors with Nest smoke/carbon monoxide detectors.
Owning a home is a money suck, but I am so in love with this house, and so excited to bring our little boy home to it!
2. Paint stair rails and banister
3. Get DD's big girl room together
4. Get new nursery together
5. RIP out bushes in front of house and re-landscape
6. Powerwash house and back deck
7. Stain back deck
8. Refinish dining room table
9.Refinish dressers and nightstand for DD's new room
10. Plan DD's birthday party for next month
...I'm getting overwhelmed making this list lol
RE appt 12/2015
CD3 labs normal | HSG 1/8/16 clear | H's SA excellent
Dx: Unexplained Infertility
February 2016, cycle 16 - cycle #1 with Letrozole 5mg + TI | Progesterone=20.6
BFP 2/24/16 - EDD 11/7/16
It's a girl!
Isla Quinn born 10/29/16 at 38w5d via C/S
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TFAS March 2018
RE consultation 8/2/18
Suprise! BFP 8/8/18 natural cycle | EDD 4/19/19
It's a girl!
Afton Noelle born 4/10/19 at 38w5d via natural VBAC
To get ready for baby
1. Move DD into her new room - need to paint, buy a mattress, put the bed together, get bedding, buy a new dresser. We also need to figure out how to cover a huge pain-in-the-butt window arch.
2. Repaint the nursery and install a ceiling fan.
My DH is looking for a new job, and he's applying in new areas so we may need to move (hooray! I effing hate our house)...so we'd need to: install new carpet throughout and finish painting bedrooms, bathrooms, all trim to get it ready to sell. We already had our realtor look at the house and those were her suggestions.
We were planning this pregnancy and have been talking about moving so I already spent the spring landscaping, cleaning out drawers and closets, and donating items/throwing away items. I painted the main entrance, kitchen, living room and laundry room. I meant to finish painting but just didn't have time before getting pregnant. DH is paranoid and doesn't want me to paint while I'm pregnant (I'm going to try to reason with him because he sucks at painting).
1. Decide if we will bother putting away the stuff our 9 month old is outgrowing (or the things like his bassinet that should have been put in the attic months ago), or just leave everything for the next 7 months. I think we should probably put it all away, but ugh...disassembly
2. Clean out the guest room, which will become our son's room - we're leaving the nursery in tact and probably just changing the decor for the new baby. We'll just leave the guest room furniture, take the existing bed off the frame for safety, and add some decor. Need to decide when we'll do this - possibly not until the new baby is almost ready to move from our room to the nursery so we can keep the guest room a little longer.
3. Buy/place/move decor for both kids' rooms.
4. Possibly renovate the upstairs bathroom if we can find the time.
5. Reorganize all closets so guest room drawers/closets can be emptied.
6. Paint touchups throughout the house.
7. Finish landscaping the backyard.
I numbered these, but now I realize they aren't in order at all. Oh well.
ETA: OH, DUH, and I have to plan my son's first birthday party for December (@shallowseas you reminded me!)
Get A/C installed
Redo pantry to make it more functional
1. Thin sheetrock over popcorn ceiling (asbestos remediation).
2. Fix leak in bathroom!!
3. Clear out guest room so it can be turned into the nursery.
4. Remove carpeting, sand off glue, refinish floors.
5. I have a million more but am already overwhelmed lol.
Start building our bed ( which will likely never happen)
Clear out our storage unit and build a shed on my in laws field so we don’t pay $150 a month to house junk that DH won’t get rid of.
Make over our bedroom and organize it so I can fit the baby stuff in there for at least 6 months.
Add an extension to the rabbit cage so they have more space to run around because they’re getting chunky.
Build a bunk bed for DD that you can park a car on because I’m terrified of bunk beds and had a stepbrothers moment with one ( top bunk fell on top of me).
DH also has a list of projects for his parents’ house (that we do live in for now).
And there’s an enormous to-do list for the house that we are trying to buy, including gutting the first floor and installing insulation throughout. And moving into it.
None of these plans include a nursery - sorry kids!
1) paint the front door. My mom/dad have actually volunteered to do it I just have to finalize a color
2) DH wants to build a shed for the kids outside toys and ride ons so he can park in the garage lol
3) We were suppose to finish the playroom in the basement but blueberries weren’t very good this year so we’ll have to put that off another year
4) Get DS a new headboard so we can convert his bed back to the crib
5) Deep clean the house
Ahhhh, limbo.
Our lease is up in November and we are trying to figure out if we are staying another full year, half year or at all. We have been tossing around the idea of buying land with my parents and each building a house. But we aren’t sure if the timeline works out.
If we don’t move this year we will for sure move next year because I don’t like any of the schools around us and DD starts next fall.
We mostly need to just clean out some extra space and buy some baby stuff since ours got ruined in storage.
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Me:32 DH:33 Married:04/2012 DD:07/2014
BFP 8/14/2018 #2 due 4/18/2019
1. Remove the kitchen carpet and get the tile cleaned up.
2. Scrub the walls in the entryway of the wallpaper glue so we can paint.
3. Powerwash the siding.
4. Get the garden cleared out in the next month since fall is finally here.
5.Organize the garage.
6. Organize the basement
So so many things lol. Cant way we didnt know what we were walking into. We just really loved this house despite the 50s decor.
I need to
make space in dd room for storage
make space in my dresser for baby clothes and in my side of the room for a cradle (eill
probably co-sleep after we are passed the exhausted newborn/tiny baby phase)
clear out 1/2 or the laundry cabinet and over the dryer prep and place the cloth diapers (I’ll wait till feb or so to do this) make dryer into changing table.
Clean everything.
Get all all of the sewing stuff into the sewing area.
Sew tons of baby clothes, especially pants. (Sort of waiting until sex is revealed, but making lots of nuetral ones currently)
Dump all the toys into a pile and sort and put back where they go. Ugh.
Tend the dog bed.
You ladies all rock, and I'm positive everything will work out/get done! And if it doesn't, it'll still work out.
As for me, I don't want to even write our list because it'll give me a headache, lol. Most of the stuff that needs to be done has to be done by someone else anyway (i.e, we're waiting on a contractor to fix our roof).
also, I totally dumped all the toys out - and the diaper/cloth basket - and got everything sorted back into the proper basket yesterday. Found DH’s missing keys!
Cabinets and trim are still all wood but we do have painted walls which is nice. We took the cast iron fire stove out when we had my daughter and turned the brick corner area into sewing storage.
We have about 7redwood trees close around us and they are about 150-200 feet tall each. So very little sun hits us. No air conditioning but the tall trees help.
Our yard is just dirt because of the shade, working on getting wood chips from Camp to make it more
pleasant.
Prep baby’s room.
Somehow take care of the jungle in the backyard. DH said he was going to turn it into a pond but alas it hasn’t changed...at all...all summer!
and I think that’s about all. I’m sure more stuff will be added to the list.
Good luck ladies! Hope we get all the things done!!
On second thought, I have too much stuff, because I have like 10 boxes of that stuff and it’s totally not fitting around a normal table. Sorry
Reconfigure closet in nursery (make wall to wall) and steal old closet for master.
Remove carpet and add hardwoods to bedrooms.
New single car garage with studio apartment above it.
Lots of gardening things.
BFP: 8/20/2018 - EDD 5/4/2019
Still wanting to:
Move the ceiling fan in the dining room up to the bedroom that doesn't have a fan
Find and install a new dining room light
Paint hopefully all of the bedrooms upstairs
Get our toddler out of the crib, maybe to just a mattress on the floor, not sure yet
There's more, but I'm already tired looking at this list, so I'm stopping here, lol
Not to brag but I totally completed this project by myself today and had extra screws😂😂 (I hope everyone is reading this is a sarcastic voice lol)
fyi DS got this for Christmas last year.....
@lyse01i think I need to downsize about 20% of my person items and then we can fit a new person in here.
ETA: MIL looooves Christmas and made it a magical season for DH. She put clues in an Advent calendar and had him searching for things all season long. She wants to do the same for DD. I support this. I just don’t want tiny crap gifts that I have to have visible for a few months but would rather have, I dunno, a recipe card for something we’ll bake together that afternoon or something.
I've also well wanting to redo the play room. I never got around to decoration it so that's on my list