Nursery Tour (and an update)

Hi guys! I’m really not turning out to be the best blogger huh? I didn’t “advertise” my last post because 1) I literally typed it on my phone while I was desperately trying to get Reagan to sleep one night during David’s last 2-week underway, and 2) it was pretty pathetic lol. But I’m going to leave it up if anything so that I can look back and reflect on these early months with Reagan, including the not so great moments.

This January underway for some reason was REALLY hard. I felt more lonely than I ever have while David has been gone (and he was gone all summer long!). I think part of it is that I didn’t have really any visitors like I did the first time he was gone when everyone wanted to come meet Reagan. But she’s also not really in the sleepy-all-the-time newborn phase where I could rely on her dozing off a few times a day at least long enough for me to get things done around the house or for myself (i.e. showering lol). I obviously knew that having a baby was going to mean my world and life revolve around them now, and I can’t just up and go and do whatever I want anytime like before, but having that transition while also having your partner gone for big chunks at a time has just made me feel isolated sometimes. I spent a LOT of time at my mom’s house over the last 2 weeks just to have some company, and we had already been tossing around the idea of moving into her house during David’s deployment for money-saving reasons, but after this last underway we decided we’re definitely going to do it. My maternity leave is over very soon and we aren’t totally sure if I’ll be going back to work or not, but either way BIG changes are coming and we are looking forward to moving into my mom’s house in March.

I have to admit I am a little sad to put most of our furniture and decor in storage for the next several months. We had basically nothing when we moved in here so we’re proud of what we have and I put a lot of effort into making this house our home. I also put a lot of effort particularly into Reagan’s nursery, which we only even started using for her to sleep  in last night lol. We’re going to take as much of her nursery furniture/decor as we can fit into the room we’ll be staying in, but it’s definitely not going to be the same. I had my best friend / photography genius come take pictures of the nursery because I was so proud of it, and my plan was / still is to submit it to some blogs and online magazines (just haven’t gotten around to it lol). But I thought I would just switch things up from Reagan/Mater updates here and show it off!

If you haven’t seen glimpses of the nursery already, I went with a girly safari “theme” (although I hate that word lol people can get wayyyyy carried away when they stick too rigidly to a specific theme). I initially thought I would do mostly pink/gold/flamingos, because as you probably know I have a flamingo obsession. My main inspiration was this painting that my aunt did for my birthday last year – I knew as soon as we found out we were having a baby that if it was a girl, this painting would be showcased in her nursery!

One day I was perusing Pinterest though, and randomly saw a print of a baby elephant with a flower crown. I thought it was one of the cutest things I’ve ever seen, and decided to expand from just flamingos to all baby safari-type animals (elephants, zebras, giraffes, etc.) I will admit I had to google to make sure there were flamingos in Africa somewhere though lol. This is what I came up with:

So there you have it! I have some ideas for more posts that aren’t just updates/ramblings from me, like our favorite newborn essentials? We’ll see if that ever happens though haha.