Back when I was pregnant, we knew we needed to find a house that we could grow into and we needed to find it before Nora arrived! At the time, Eric was still in high school and living with us, as well as mom, so we really needed a house with plenty of space so we weren't all sitting on top of each other! We looked at a lot of houses, but when we found our house we knew it! It was perfect for us...a room and full bathroom for mom downstairs, a master suite upstairs (with bathroom), laundry upstairs and another full bathroom for Eric and then for Nora, plus some more bedrooms. What really sold me on the house was the bedroom that is attached to the master suite via french doors. It was designed as a den or "master living room" but we knew immediately that it would be a perfect nursery...and it has been!
We moved Nora to a toddler bed about 4 months ago and she has done amazing! She loves her big girl bed so we figured it was time to move her out of the nursery to her big girl room. I set to work this week and got the room painted and her stuff all moved it. She's been in the room about a week now and she LOVES it!
We moved her Nora door sign to her new room, which is just down the hall from our room. Now we get a bit of privacy again...
We did 3 walls in a darker shade of purple and then the window wall is a lighter shade of purple. Nora always calls the color purple, pink...but we're working on it! She walks into her room often, looks around and says, "its pretty!"
Gotta have her closet organized...
We had hoped to move her into her toddler bed and then transition her to her new room in order to use the nursery for a new baby. Although we have not completely shut the door on that yet, it is looking more and more like Nora will be our only child. We have already tried again with the same process that we used to get our wonderful Nora several times without success. At this time, the options available to us are too costly, time consuming, and stressful for me. I started working full time again in November (I got a promotion that required me to stop working weekend plan) and now I am in the last semester of my graduate education, which involves an internship with the director of nursing of the Women's Center at the hospital that I also work at. Needless to say, I am very busy, stressed, and tired. Moving forward with any kind of infertility treatments right now would be too hard for me. When I graduate in May we will discuss some more with our doctors about our options and we may be able to find an option that we can afford. Ultimately, although we do not want Nora to be an only child and we would absolutely love to continue to grow our family, the stress and money require may be more than its worth. I don't want Nora to suffer just so that we can have more children. Nora is amazing, wonderful, beautiful, smart, sassy, and so much more than I ever dared to hope for while we were going through our infertility testing and treatment the first time around. We already have more than I ever wished for and if we are unable to have any more children it'll be fine. Our little family is perfect already.
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