The Nursery

We were told by our social worker that we should start to get the nursery ready.  I will be honest I had a lot of mixed emotions on this. I was excited to get the nursery going because it meant that we were making progress in the adoption process. However, I also had a lot of reservations on doing this because we don't know how long we will be waiting for our child. It is hard for me to think of walking by this empty nursery day after day. To be honest it was really was tearing me up. SO... Dan and I talked about and decided that WE needed to get this ready to help our minds grasp that someday in the near future we were going to be parents. We can use the nursery as a way to start to prepare, plan and let ourselves finally get excited and let this be real!!

Dan and I spent a lot of time researching cribs on line and even spent a day out looking at them. We had originally thought we wanted a white crib, but we couldn't find any that were in our price range that were high quality. Finally, Dan said Kate lets go get the crib at Costco... we can't beat the price and it is much nicer than many of them out there we were looking at! He was right... but it wasn't white! So, I agreed to go look. We decided we had enough white in our house and the crib was too good of a deal to pass up. So, staying true to the joke that Dan's parents think (we only shop at Costco) we bought the crib and changing table.  My dad dropped everything and came with the truck. We loaded it up and headed home.  I would love to say it was magical moment... but it was anything from that. People just say some stupid things!! As Dan and I drove home, we had to agree that this will be just one of the many stupid, hurtful things people say and we better start getting thick skin!! This will be a learning process I am sure.

Thanks to our neighbor Dan for helping carrying the changing table up
this thing is a tank! 

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