A Condo in Transition
I would say that since we moved in to our condo just over a year ago, I have always felt like it was in a state of transition and organization. We worked at going through boxes of things we knew we didn't necessarily want to keep, we kept trying to find just the right arrangment for the furniture we had and figure out where we could use a piece here or there, and we organized stuff to find storage space, sometimes where there was very little. I continue to feel like it is still a work in progress and maybe I always will.
But with Baby on the way, it seems the "transitional" state of our condo has been taken to the next level these days. We recently bought a new mattress for ourselves. After sleeping on my full size bed for over year, we upgraded to a queen and were able to put our new comforter and linens to use to go with the paint color Jack and Steve worked so diligently to put up in that room a while back. With that new mattress, something had to be done with the old one, right? Well, for the moment, it is standing up against the wall in our 2nd bedroom where it'll soon be taken to my parents' house for use in one of their spare bedrooms. But in the meantime, that second bedroom looks like we haven't made any progress on it at all, when we really have! It's a little discouraging to be quite honest, and I am glad that over the weekend we'll be able to make the switch.
I also just picked up our crib this week that needs to be assembled. Since the mattress is in the bedroom, the box is currently just leaning up against the wall in our living room. And just last night we visited with my brother, sister-in-law and their two kids, where we were gifted a whole bunch of gently used baby things free of charge. (Thanks, Jim & Renee!) Since I didn't want them to continue to have to store the stuff, we loaded up the things we thought we could use in my car to bring home. And where are these items now, you might ask? Most are in our dining/living room area.
Frankly, I think even Bentley is a little confused as to what is going on. As we went to bed last night, instead of sleeping on his bed out in the living room, he started out laying in the second bedroom close to the door on the hard floor.
Despite being a bit overwhelmed by the current state of things, I am looking forward to this weekend when we'll be able to move some things around and get back to making our condo look like a home.