Mom was up last weekend
Okay this post should have been up earlier this week as well, but that’s life.
Anyways I arrived home on Monday after Thanksgiving, and on Tuesday my Mom headed up to DC for a conference. We didn’t actually see her again till Thursday, yep a big whole 3 days of not seeing my Mom, I am so deprived. Anyways on Thursday she and Dan took the train back to the house and picked up K on their way home. I think we went out to Longhorn for dinner (sounds right at least) since I wanted a salad and baked potato. Friday she was here and Dan was at work. She had a conference call in the morning and in the afternoon we went out to Arundal Mills Mall. We looked at baby furniture at Burlington Coat Factory and decided we weren’t all that impressed by their stuff. We picked up a few baby outfits as well (shocking isn’t it?). Went out to dinner at Melting Pot in the evening which was nice.
Saturday was big shopping day, Mom was up so we could figure out baby room furniture. So we relaxed in the morning again and then headed to my in-laws. Picked them up and all headed to a Baby Specialty shop. We spent awhile there and found a couple of pieces of furniture we liked. Dan really liked one set and it was nice so we decided to go with it. Well sort of. The baby’s room is small, one could even say tiny, it is around 9ft by 8ft. So we didn’t like the long dresser, it didn’t have a lot of storage and it would take up a lot of room. We loved the crib though, so we got the tall 5 drawer dresser with it, which holds more and should fit in the room better. We also got a changing table, which is nice, not sure it is needed, but it will likely be useful so we’ll see. The furniture is by Sorelle and the collection is Chantelle, we got it in the antique oak finish which is nice, not too light or too dark.
After choosing and buying the furniture we went to another baby store, and then out to dinner. We then headed back to the in-law’s house and hung out for a bit before heading home. Dropped my Mom off at the airport Sunday morning and ran some errands after that.
Overall it was a nice weekend with my Mom and we got the furniture ordered, which is good since it will take 14 weeks or so for it to be delivered which puts us in early March about a month before the blob is due. Apparently baby furniture takes awhile to get. Now I won’t see my Mom for a month or so, which isn’t a huge deal, either, I’ll probably see her twice in January though it may be once in Jan and once in Feb, who knows, they haven’t decided on the date of my baby shower yet.