The Baby's Dresser!

Early in my pregnancy, my sister sent me a link to one of her friend's blogs who had refinished an old dresser for her nursery. I was inspired and spent months scouring ads on ksl for the perfect baby dresser. After months of searching, I was worried that we wouldn't be able to find one that was just right and in our price range (cheap!), but we did! We picked up this beauty for $30.


And we (with the amazing help of my awesome family!) transformed it into the most beautiful, most perfect baby dresser ever!

It turned out so great, it is really making me wish we had a nursery to put it in. Until we do have a nursery, it and the baby will be in our room, and I can gaze lovingly at it whenever I want.

On Nesting...

I am generally not a huge planner, and I don't tend to worry too much about future events, particularly those that I can't control. But holy moly, pregnancy hormones are kicking in! Every now and then, I find myself feeling really stressed about having things ready for the baby. It's ridiculous because I still have plenty of time left, but I am starting to feel this drive to get things done. Garrett and I have been going full steam ahead on our baby dresser refinishing project (halfway done!), and we even set up the Pack n' Play bassinet in our bedroom. Garrett's been great at humoring me because really, who needs a bassinet set up at 27 weeks? Me, apparently, and fortunately Garrett's willing to do it for me just so I can rest a little easier at night. Sometimes I think I'm going a little crazy... and sometimes Garrett agrees.

P.S. Speaking of Pack n' Plays, Garrett really hates the phrase "Pack n' Play." Don't ask me why because I totally don't get it. Anyway, the entire time we were setting it up and even now, he's decided that our new word for the Pack n' Play is Marv. Yes, Marv is all set up in our bedroom. Sometimes I think Garrett's a little crazy too.

Great deals on baby stuff

So, now that the bar exam is over, I've been doing a lot of sleeping, cleaning, job searching and baby stuff. Because the baby stuff is by far the most fun, I wanted to tell you all about a couple of my very favorite baby deals websites.

The first is Babysteals.com. This website posts one deal a day (like woot) on really cute baby stuff. I've bought things from them in the past for baby shower gifts, and now that I'm expecting my own baby soon, it's been very difficult waiting until after baby showers to buy some of these cute things. If you miss a day and they haven't sold out, you can always buy past steals on their archive page. And for those of you with older kids or who love scrapbooking, they also have Kidsteals.com and Scrapbooksteals.com. The really dangerous thing about these great websites is that their warehouse is in Salt Lake, so you can choose local pick-up and not have to pay any shipping! My favorite steal that they've had so far are my diapers. As many of you know, Garrett and I will be using gDiapers to cloth diaper our baby. While I certainly don't have all the diapers I'll be needing, I was able to snag some at a great price thanks to Babysteals!


My other favorite website is Mamabargains.com. Much like Babysteals, Mamabargains has one deal listed on their page at a time, but unlike Babysteals, as soon as that deal sells out, they put up a new deal (like a woot-off all the time!). The age ranges for the deals on this page vary quite a bit, so you can find both kid and baby stuff as well as the occasional maternity/nursing stuff. Lanna is the proud owner of a fabulous pair of red hightops we bought from this website. She loves them so much, she wears them every day. And my very favorite deal from Mamabargains is the one really big baby purchase we've made, a stroller! We bought a beautiful Easywalker QTRO stroller, complete with the carry cot, from Mamabargains for $325. That's half off the retail price of $650. And because Mamabargains also has their warehouse located in Salt Lake, we didn't have to pay for shipping. This stroller is super nice, has all the features I could ever want and looks really cozy. So cozy that we have to keep kicking the cat out of the carry cot.And finally, I also wanted to mention Greenbabybargains.com. Like Babysteals, they have one deal a day, but unlike Babysteals, their featured items are always environmentally friendly. I haven't yet bought anything from them, but they have also had some really cute stuff. Unfortunately, they don't have a warehouse in Salt Lake, so no local pick-up. :(

With such fun bargain sites, it really is a wonder I don't have all the baby stuff anyone could ever need, but I keep telling myself I have to wait until after baby showers. Hopefully the weeks go by fast because baby things are just so darn cute! It makes me really glad that we chose not to find out the sex of the baby because then I'm not tempted by all the gender specific stuff.