Finding Motivation

For a while now, I have been content to sit around and attend to Madeleine. I feel like it took me a solid year to truly get the "Mommy" thing down. But now that I have her scheduled, and self-feeding and things are going awesome, I've turned my attention to my nest. I don't know if I didn't "nest" as much with Mads because I was working and tired most of the time...but I do know that now that I have more "freetime" on my hands (like when Mads is napping), I am suddenly motivated to get some work done around the house. Here's what I've done in the last few weeks:

-organized the linen "cave" (which will its own post due to its presence on the 30 before 30 list)

-organized MJ's clothes and pulled out her 18 month items for use

-weeded my gazania bed and planted Kangaroo Paw; felted and wood chipped planter to detour weeds

-replaced our bedroom fan (Tim helped me)

-organized the food pantry

-dead-headed my roses and African daisies

-hung Madeleine's swing in the tree out front

-disassembled the old bedroom fan and re-painted it for our kitchen area

-conditioned our leather couches

-re-painted all our frames in our bedroom black

-hung magnolia vines above our windows in our bedroom

- wrote and mailed thank-you notes for Mads' birthday gifts

-tested our pool water and added a pH balancer, conditioner, chlorine and vacuumed it

-fixed the concentric float in our toilet to keep it from running

I also have a few other projects going which include painting our bathroom, hanging window coverings in our bathroom and sanding our coffee and side tables.

I can't really decide what to do for the color of the coffee and side tables, but I was really inspired by this diy game table idea!

I think I will have to start sanding the tables tomorrow =)

Love, Lauren