I’ve been seeing lots of Mama’s (and other Dad’s too actually) write little notes to their kids. Like…rules of life, wisdom nuggets, whatever you want to call them.

So. I’m jumping on this bandwagon.

Maybe not once a day. For a year. But just little nuggets of wisdom that I want my boys to know. Things that I think they should learn. Real life. Real emotions. Real things.

I think I’m going to put them into a book. A book where they can look back…I could look back…at all the real life things I taught them, that in between telling them to clean their room’s and eat their vegetables, might have gotten lost in the shuffle.

Lesson 1: Never be too proud to ask for help. It’s okay to need it. And even better if you can admit it.

I feel like I failed.

But I know deep inside I really didn’t.

I feel like I was supposed to forgive him.

But I know can’t.

I feel like maybe I could have forgiven him if it was just once.

But it really wasn’t.

I feel scared that I’m doing this all alone again.

But I think I’m okay with that.

I feel worried about what people will say and think.

But that’s the last thing I should be concerned about.

I feel like this is the best choice for myself and my children.

But it doesn’t make it any less difficult.

I feel like this is my fault.

But I know inside of me it isn’t.

I feel like I was supposed to stick it out with him and make it work.

But I know I am worth so much more than that.

I feel like me and my boys going to be okay.

No more ‘buts’.

Now that I know I’m having a little boy, to match my other little boy…And they are going to be about 13 months apart (give or take..) I want them to share a nursery.

Now, I do have a room for both of them separately. However, it would make so much more sense for them to just share one of the biggest rooms. H-Man still co-sleeps with me, the new baby will probably co-sleep and be breastfed, etc. H-Man is only going to be a little over a year old! That’s still a little baby!

So because I want to make this whole huge double nursery…after I already have an amazing nursery for H-Man…I’m going to do it on a BUDGET. Really, I want to save money and not go crazy, and I also want to see how much I can get and how awesome it could look for not that much money.

I’m going to blog my journey

This little picture served as the inspiration for the boy’s nursery:

Now this nursery will ONLY serve as a nursery\sleeping\changing area. There will be little to no toys in it. This is on the second floor and I’m going to use H-Man’s original nursery as the play\toy room on the first floor. I’ll have some stuff for when they’re up there, but the majority of the ”stuff” will be downstairs where we spend all our time.

I can’t wait to start shopping and showing you guys everything!!! I’m going to do my first shopping trip in about a week! So excited.

Also..I set up a separate menu on the bottom right hand of my blog to keep all the nursery posts in one place.