The Nursery

I realized I never showed you pictures of the nursery.  My brother did an amazing job in pulling everything together.  I love our little guy's room.  We of course decided to go with a monkey, zany, fun theme, so he can enjoy this room for many years. 

This hangs above his crib.  My brother came up with the amazing idea of having a monkey vine for all of the monkeys to hang from.

I like the dog hooks under the mirror on the edge of the photo.

I also like the barrel of monkeys we have hanging from the ceiling fan.

I have also put some monster vinyls decals on the wall by the chair that match the pillow and fill the space nicely.

this is his changing pad on top of his dresser, with more monkeys to look at.

Not a stellar picture of us, but I wanted to show the cool light we have in the room and the finger puppets behind my husband.  I collect them and like to keep a few in my bag when a kid is restless and needs something fun to play with.  My brother came up with this fun way to display them all.

A close up on some of the finger puppets.

It is such a fun room to spend time in.  I love how it turned out. 

Stanley models...

our baby's blanket.  I sewed this little blanket for our baby tonight.  And Stanley insisted on trying it out.  I think Stanley is pretty excited to have a new playmate.  I told him that he's not the only one. :D

A nice night

I had a very relaxing and peaceful evening. I was making this fun sock creation and my husband was playing the guitar. And it was just nice.

Create

I can find joy in making things. I am definitely not the craftiest person, but when I do make something, whether it be a tasty treat, a sock monkey, or take a good photograph. There is something about the act of creating something that wasn't there before that just makes me feel happy.

This video clip depicts my feelings on this subject.

Create

I think that is why in someways infertility can be so difficult. Because I have the desire to love and nurture children and create a happy and wonderful home. And for whatever reason, my dreams of having children has not come to fruition. It can be frustrating and debilitating and all consuming and quite unhealthy at times.

So through this journey of infertility I realized that really all I wanted was to be happy in the place where I was at. I quickly realized that I was not in control of the situation, and I slowly realized that I could become happy despite the setbacks to my charted course in life. And when I took time to create something: be it a crafty outward thing, or a more internal thing like a kind word or deed. That was when I felt happiness and peace.

After spending so many years of my life focused on creating a child, I now hope to start a new chapter in life and create and fulfill my other life goals.