The night of the sleep deprived worriers

Horror films love to put the characters in dark places, usually at night and most of the time alone and scared. A creature of human or other origin, stalks the victims with eerie ease while the victims forgot complete logic and commonsense and run around their surroundings like blind mice, ultimately finding their demise in some gruesome and ludicrous way (which may make you laugh or throw up). Our horror story began Tuesday night, at 9pm, and like true horror stories it was dark, slightly foggy, cold and we had a creature to cause us torment.

This little creature, only little but still scary, was human and not of other origin (at least that’s what we are told) and she was now our new roommate. Like a thriller or horror film where the villain is a roommate, this was much worse, for she wasn’t doing anything but being herself. Who was this creature, our daughter, Skye.

Nursery Mode Activated – Final Phase

I wrote my first blog (check it out here) on my first shopping trip and how it made me feel included in this whole having a child thing. It made it more real, to me at least, when buying things for your future devil child, however since taking on the task of decorating the nursery, I have felt even closer to the little bundle of joy happily chilling out in the wife’s belly. Looking at the room, and though we both decided on the style, color and ‘theme’, it was me who did most of the decorating. It’s my first ever gift (apart from being an awesome dad) to my daughter.

My previous blogs (Phase one and Phase two) detailed the transformation from a man cave/den into a room with bright colored walls and some IKEA furniture, along with some Shakespeare on the wall. Since then, we have bought some decorations for the wall, curtains and a black out blind (pink of course), an awesome (if I do say so myself, which I do) rug for the floor and also two cute nightlights.

Let me show you the final phase of the nursery, the completed room.

Nursery Mode Activated – Phase two

So Phase one is complete, the painting is done. Not the best painting I must admit but I am not that good at cutting in, my other half (who actually is now my wife, so will now call her this from now on) is better at the cutting in than me, so may have to get her to do some touch ups. Phase one (Nursery Mode Activated – Phase one) involved painting the walls bright colors.

We believe and agree with the fact that bright colors and shapes stimulate your child and help promote intelligence, or something along those lines. We also just like bright colors over plain and boring colors, but that’s just us. So two walls are bright yellow, one wall is blue (the wall with the window) and the last wall is bright pink (the wall with the door). We also have put up a pink black out blind (the second one after buying the first which was too short and didn’t work. Lesson learned) and still need to buy some blue curtains.

So on to Phase two – furniture.

Nursery Mode Activated – Phase one

When we bought our house, we made sure that we bought the right house, a house we didn’t have to leave in a couple of years as we knew we were planning on starting a family. It had enough space for all our stuff and enough rooms/bedrooms for us to start a small family. As we were looking around at houses we noticed that the smaller houses, the occupants were leaving because there baby was getting too big. The house we bought however, the occupants were moving for the same reason, but this time the children weren’t becoming toddlers, instead they were arriving at their early teen years.

This filled us with hope when choosing this house, because it meant it was big enough to raise our children till they hit that similar age. When our friends found out we were pregnant, one of the first things they said was ‘Lucky you bought a house that size then.’ It wasn’t luck, it was all planned. The perks of having a other half who is on the same page as yourself.

So it has begun, phase one of the nursery has started.

Ultimate Children’s bedrooms – these give me some ideas.

If I had money, well not that I don’t have money, but if I had money just lying around and could afford to make some of these amazing Children’s bedrooms then I would love to. I do want to make a cool room for my children to grow up in however size and cost may restrict me, especially if I wanted to make some of the below rooms.

At least you can get some ideas from these rooms, if not for themes or cool things to add. It’s like a child’s imagination exploded inside the room. I can not wait to let my imagination run wild when it comes to their room, though my credit card may feel differently about the experience.