Baby Room Excitement

I've started decorating the nursery... it's been SO much fun already. So far I have some bedding and some artwork. I still need furniture, drapes, a rug... lots of stuff, but I have a pretty good start. I found some adorable artwork on Etsy and the perfect bedding on sale. Charlie told me that I should wait till January to buy anything, but the bedding was on sale and never would have lasted till January and the artwork is one of a kind and may have sold before January so I ignored his rules and went with my gut. I think he picked January just to test my patience anyway, so my patience loses again, oh well, our baby's room will be cute!

Notice that the Pottery Barn picture shows the crib in black. I think it looks very striking, but I can't decide if I'm ready for black baby furniture. What do you think? Also, one wall is going to be painted with chalkboard paint. I saw it in a Domino magazine profile that showed the designer for J Crew's baby's room and she had a whole wall painted as a chalkboard, we may just go for a stripe, but I haven't made any definitive decisions yet. Anyway, just wanted to share my progress. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!




These are mobiles but I emailed the artist and she said that they work well in frames too. I'd love to frame them without backing so that the pale yellow wall shows through the back. I may hang one mobile too just for variety.


Here's the bedding. So cute!

Commercial Real Estate by Day and Rockers by Night...

Charlie and his work friends my seem like stiff suits during the day, but check them out them while they ROCK at night. :) Here they are practicing, hopefully they don't quit their day job anytime soon!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw4S4R9K9gw

Another picture from my Mom...

I just thought this one was funny. Kelse and I used to coordinate our moves. We decided early that we had no future as a 2 woman drill team, but still we tried...

Baby News...

We are having a girl!! We are so excited! Oh, I can't wait to meet her!
Here's a little preview picture of how she might look. Can you guess which one is Kelsey and which one is me?
We are now accepting all girl name suggestions...

Doodles for Obama!

You may remember that Sammy was an ardent supporter of Obama and had her own Doodles for Obama pin... well, as it turns out, there may soon be one of her own in the White House! I just read in the NY Times that the Obama's are considering a Goldendoodle. Sammy is SO, SO proud. : )

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/the-search-for-the-first-puppy/?scp=1&sq=obama%20dog&st=cse

My Favorite Quick Dinner

I was on jury duty for the last two days. It was completely pointless, all I did was sit in a room for 2 and a 1/2 days. I would estimate that there were probably 150 other people there with me. About 3 times on the first day they called the names of 30 people at a time to form 3 potential juries. Out of these 3 groups only 1 of those groups ever went up to a courtroom and after lunch on the second day they let all the other people go... so about 90 of the people there all left without doing anything. Very frustrating. If you ever are called to jury duty, whatever you do, don't forget your book.

Anyway, I wasn't sure if my schedule would be as accommodating to cooking dinner as usual while on jury duty so last night we had my favorite quick dinner, grilled cheese and tomato soup. This may seem boring to you, but I promise it is delicious if you use two of my new favorite things:
1) Beecher's Marco Polo Cheese
According to Beechers: Marco Polo takes lightly milled green and black Madagascar peppercorns and blends them with our creamy cheese. The result is cheese with bite and texture, sophisticated yet approachable. According to me: AWESOME with tomato soup!
2) Manoucher Bread
This bread cost way more than the other breads, but it's worth it, especially if you are only having grilled cheese and tomato soup for dinner.

For soup we just use a can of soup. I like wolfgang pucks. Anyway, I just love this cheese and bread so I thought that I would tell all of you about it.

My husband the rock star...

I got Charlie an X Box for his birthday this year... before I bought it, I did think I wonder if he'll play it ALL the time and I'll regret this? So, I'm glad to report that in the almost 4 weeks that he has had it, he's shown remarkable restraint, AND we have one game that we play together. It's called Rock Band and we have formed a band: Doodle Romp (named after, you guessed it, Sammy Doodle Malley and the bi-weekly gathering of Doodles at the dog park that we always seem to miss). Anyway, Charlie is really good at the guitar and the drums. I lack a lot of skill, but make up for it in enthusiasm. We have a great time and love to have guests over to ROCK with us. I do hope that all of you can make some time to come over and play a gig with us. To incite you even further, I'm including this action shot from a few weeks ago.