a little room

We’re not going to have a nursery.

I (so far!) haven’t minded the repeated questions about being pregnant.

When are you due? What are you having? Are you excited? Is this the first grandchild?

But the nursery questions are getting hard…

Do you have the nursery ready? What are your colors? What’s the theme?

We don’t have a nursery. We don’t have colors. There is no room for a theme. There is literally no room. We can’t even put the crib together right now…because there’s no room! I feel like a bad parent every time I have to explain this. I wish we could be painting a bedroom and putting a crib together and buying fun baby décor. We’ll have to do some serious reorganizing to make room for a crib soon, but that’s about it.

We’re going to move. We hope, anyway; we’ve been looking into it for a while now. There will be an entire bedroom for baby sometime in the next eight to ten months, God willing.

This isn’t a serious problem. And people who ask me about the nursery are only asking a typical new baby question, so I can’t fault that. It just makes me feel inadequate every time I have to explain that we’re not preparing a baby room and won’t be able to for several months. Maybe it’s a new mom thing.

Good news - we have a nice house. We have an opportunity to move into a bigger house. We can get by without a bedroom. God is more than taking care of our material needs. AND I don’t have gestational diabetes! Failed the first test, but passed the second. :) I just need to remember these things every time I get a nursery question.