The Growing Caldwell Family

We have definitely been busy around here!  Most of the preparations are getting a big girl room and a new nursery ready.  A lot of work has gone into both, but neither is finished and ready to show.  Last weekend, Pops came to help paint Chubby room and SG got to help!  I don't know who was more proud, Sarah Graves or Pops!  Pops handled the cut in work and Aaron did the roller.  We now have a blue room perfect for a baby boy!

For the last week or two, Nat and I haven't been able to sleep through the night. I can't seem to fall asleep until after midnight. Meanwhile, Nat is ready for bed at about 7:30PM and wakes up at about three or four in the morning. Lucy doesn't know what to think... I think that she looks at us like we're crazy most of the time. I stay up with a million things going through my mind, such as " Are we having a boy or a girl? " " What is the economy going to do? " " How do people with babies function with no sleep ?". I also think about how I'm really blessed and live a charmed life. I hope that the baby has a life more blessed and charmed than mine. After an hour or so of thinking about these things, I try to pray about the future, and I just run out of words. I usually have to fall back to contemplating the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) or Jesus Prayer. Nat hasn't been sleeping because she's been having heartburn (one of those pregnan...

I mentioned that we have been busy working on projects around the house. The big project is one that Dad and Aaron took on for me. They converted some empty attic space off of our master bath into my dream closet. They started this project in February and worked on it on the weekends when they had time. I helped out with painting, but they did all the large work and I am really appreciative to both of them for it. Here are some photos of the space. I don't know which part I am enjoying more, having all the storage space for folded clothes or the pull out shoe racks! We also did some work in Aaron's closet to spiff it up a bit. He now has flooring to match mine, plenty of space for all his things, and his favorite part, a chair to sit down and put his shoes on. We also had new carpet installed in our upstairs. It looks nice, but unless you saw the old, stained up, white carpet, you probably wouldn't notice a huge difference. I'm just glad to be rid of all the stains that...