Half way already? .... How the heck did that happen?!

So, H and I were chatting last week, and we realized that we were coming up to week 20 of our pregnancy, aka the half way point!

At first I was fine with that, and then I started to get all angst-y worrying that we weren't going to be ready in time, as between work, a ~3 week vacation to Europe  and my decreasing mobility/agility, I know the time will be flying by.   So, to somewhat ease my worries, this weekend operation Get Ready for Baby went into overdrive.

What did that look like you ask?!:

• Containing the chaos that has been my sewing area- especially as the "office/ sewing room" is now a "spare room/office/sewing room" - with so many functions in one relatively small space, organization  is key to making sure our guests don't get drowned in quilting fabric!
• It's taken ages so far and is still in progress!

• Getting started on the refurb/beautification of the first of our DIY nursery projects, a nine drawer mid century dresser which, when we picked it up, was looking pretty roughed up and drab.

• Followed by recruiting a helper (aka my dad), to assist H in cutting down the new to us bi-fold doors for the nursery and above mentioned spare room/office/sewing room, as neither of these rooms have had closet doors since we moved in and removed the wood louvered ones almost 2 years ago!   This is even more sad pathetic considering that we had bought replacements ..... last year  (hanging head in shame).  
• Now, to paint them.... and then hang them!

• And finally..... ordering parts for our DIY nursery mobile.

Lot's more details (and pics) to come!

New Project in the Works

If you've noticed it's been a bit quite recently on the ol' blog, it's because we've been busy working on a big project over here at Casa Waffles.....

Yup, we have a little Waffle on the way!  We survived the first trimester (we're due end of August), but between a change at work leading to much more business travel, and constantly feeling drained from 1st trimester exhaustion, any non-baby baking projects have been on the back burner for the last little while.

I'm hoping that the exhaustion will start going away as I enter the 2nd trimester so we can get back to our regularly scheduled program of projects, but regardless, we'll have lots-o-things a going on 'round here while we prepare for our new family member:

• Create a nursery
• several re-fabulous-izing projects are already planned on some existing furniture
• Sew a baby quilt - 'cuz hello our babe needs an awesome quilt for their room
• Finish off some house projects to prep for baby
• re-do entry stairs
• phase 1 of fencing off the garden to create a safe/secure play area
• convert the carport to a garage (hello baby stuff storage!)
• A trip back to Belgium in May to celebrate with our overseas families and friends (~5 months preggers-eek!)
• Create Belgian style birth announcements and "doop suikers" for visitors
• ...... about a billion other things....

Oh, and as to how we told the Canadian half of our family....

We snuck it into a special birthday card for my Mom!