ReDos and My Insanity

My sister introduced me to this blog: betterafter.blogspot.com. I am obsessed and I have lots of projects already gathering in my house. I have three bar stools I want to redo, I am getting a dresser for Ally that I want to paint and put cute stenciling on it, and more.... I thought I should start small since I have NO experience in this type of thing. I was at DI looking for a coffee table I could turn into a bench for my entryway at my house when I found this little treasure.

Ugly right?? Well after picking out some fabric, buying some spray paint, and taking the time to put it all together (about an hour tops)... I had this cute little footstool!!

I love it. Now I just need to get some chairs to go with it for my dining room area! I love my new house and the LARGE dining area. I want to make it a cozy hangout place for family and visitors. That is why I want chairs for it! A nice lamp table and some mood lighting and a soft rug... Ah... someday!

Another thing I did was paint my porch. It was just cement and leftover adhesive from that fake grass stuff that old people used to glue to their porch... it was hideous! But after about an hour of work with Rick at 10 at night we had this to wake up to in the morning. I just wish I would have taken a before picture so you could get the full effect of how beautiful this is compared to what it was.

Now all I need to do is get Ally's room ready. We are working so hard on getting the basement apartment ready that I haven't done a thing to get her room put together. I don't even have a dresser to put her clothes in. I am buying bedding this week and hopefully I can paint in two weeks and get a dresser to redo... then relax for my last couple weeks of pregnancy. Yeah right! Relax? What is that? I have to tell you a bit of what has been going on this pregnancy. Besides being super sick the first trimester it hasn't been too bad. I have been able to get out and do things and haven't been sick. However, a couple weeks before my third trimester hit I got this wave of fatigue. It was like I had been hit by a truck. It has let up a couple days here and there but for the most part I have been just so darn tired all the time. Rick has been wonderful and has helped me a lot and so has my family which I would have died without. Another thing too is my hormones must be all over the place. I don't remember feeling this way with Levi, maybe it's because this is a girl and that is why it is more noticeable. I have just been so insane lately. Everything makes me want to crawl into a corner and cry. Poor Rick tries SO HARD to make me happy all the time. I don't feel I deserve it because I am so cranky and moody all the time. The past 4 days or so I have felt much more stable. Maybe she isn't doing so much hormone producing now and is just getting fat!? lol. Well I am so close to the end. 6 to 7 more weeks! Home stretch!