New Bed!

Jaye and I both grew up wishing we had a loft bed...but no such luck for either of us. We've been talking about it for awhile and we decided that this year would be the year to get a loft bed for Hope. Hudson is getting bigger and is into EVERYTHING and we want Hope to have a space that is hers and that she can feel to create/dream in. So...today we built a really fun space for our sweet girl!

Prior to today, Hope had a cute picket fence bed that was given to me when I was in need of a bed. It's been such a cute bed and I love that she got to use it too!

Even Hudson tried to help today! He would climbed up top if we would've left him alone long enough!

We couldn't find a twin loft that was just right so we bought a full-size and then customized it by adding shelves up top and cutting 6" off the bottom. Love the way it turned out!

She loves her bed! She moved all her favorite books, toys and stuffed animals up there immediately!

Still not sure what else we'll add...definitely need to add curtains that will close it off so she can have a fort and need to find a smaller cozy chair to curl up in with a book! It will be a work in progress!

Five Minute Friday: Choose

(Every Friday for over a year, hundreds of people have joined a writing flash mob at Lisa-Jo Baker‘s blog site.  They write for five minutes flat all on the same prompt that she posts on her site at one minute past midnight EST every Friday.  No extreme editing or worrying about punctuation, grammar or font.  Unscripted, unedited, real.  I am going to do my best to be a part of the fun.)

CHOOSE...this is the story of my life now days. On most days I have about 60-90 minutes to get things done and most days it is a struggle to choose which things I will do. Do I choose to read my Bible or clean house? Do I choose to pack lunch and get ready for work or prep dinner for that night? Should I choose to shower and get ready for the day or play with Hope? All of the things listed above are important and ideally, they should all get done each day...but there's not enough baby-free time to do so. So each day I must choose what comes first.

To be honest, most days I probably don't choose the most important things. Unfortunately, playing with Hope usually gets pushed aside so the practical things get done....things like getting ready for work and packing lunch or prepping dinner. Am I proud of that? Absolutely not. Thankfully she's really good at playing by herself but it still stinks to miss out on that opportunity. So each day I must choose what gets my time and some days it is not the eternal things that get chosen, it's the mundane and very necessary things that need to get done.