Needing a big change!

Ok so I have been wanting to redo my kitchen cabinets for a really long time. All I was thinking about doing was distressing them since there isn't much to them anyway. They are just the plain panel doors that were the original cabinetry from when it was built in '77. I know that we can't afford actual new cabinets, but they definitely need to be updated from the plain oak color they are now with the original handles as well. So one day as I was browsing Lowe's website to see if they had any ideas on kitchen cabinets I found a little blurb about putting beadboard on the cabinet fronts. I had never heard of this before so I asked my sis-in-law if she had ever heard of it. She hadn't either so I forgot about it for a while. Then I was talking to my friend at work about distressing her kitchen stools and I told her that I wanted her to teach me how to do that because I wanted to distress my kitchen cabinets. Then I remembered about the beadboard so I asked her if she had ever heard of that. She told me yes and kinda explained to me what it consisted of and reassured me that it turns out really cute. All I could picture in my head was the old fashioned cupboards that had the entire face as beadboard so I wasn't too keen on the idea. I decided that I would try and find some ideas online to see if I wanted to even attempt this adventure. Then I found this..... I absolutely fell in love with this look. My friend told me that it would be super easy to do since my cupboard fronts are already the plain panel. Now the part that I am wondering about is the drawers. I know that it will look stupid to try and fit this whole beadboard and trim design on a small drawer front, but I also think that if I don't add something to them that it will look odd since the cupboards will now stick out further than the drawers. I'm thinking maybe I could find a smaller trim and put that around the edge of the front of the drawer and leave the middle the flat panel and get some cute handles to go on them instead. We'll have to see. I really am wanting to do this really bad, but when I start that means that I will have to do something with my countertops since they are an ugly cream color and will clash really bad with the paint I will use for the cupboards. Maybe we will have to play around with all these ideas in a few days when my week off starts. I think it will be a fun project, but may take me a while :(.

Anywho... So there have been quite a lot of decisions on our little family lately. There still isn't any word on a full time job from Brock so we (we as in me) are kinda getting a little nervous about when this baby comes. Since I was unaware that short term disability leave is something extra that you have to sign up for on your health insurance we unfortunately don't have it. What does this mean? Well it means that when I go on maternity leave I will not get paid at all for being off of work. You may be asking well what about PTO... yeah since I'm 7 on 7 off that isn't a perk that we get. All I have is EIB. That's more like sick leave that kicks in if you are out longer than 3 days. I calculated it, and I will only have 77 or so hours of EIB by the time Addy comes. So that means that I will technically only have a week of paid leave. Therefore I will only get about 3 weeks off with my little girl. This really makes me sad, but there is no way that we can afford to do anything different since I am the main income at this point. Now you're asking where did the decision making come into play? Well we were tinkering with the idea to rent our condo out and move in with my parents 'til something happened with Brock and a FT job. That way I could take more time off with my baby, and we wouldn't have to worry so much about paying a mortgage payment and other bills while I wasn't getting paid. Plus I would have the help of my mom and when I did go back to work she and my dad would be there to watch the baby while I tried to get some sleep when I got off work in the mornings. The problem we were having with this decision was that we both weren't getting that for sure feeling that, that is what we needed to do. We started with this idea at the end of October, and it has taken us this long to decide that I will have to live with the fact that I will only get 3 weeks off with Addy and at this point we will are staying in our little home. We want to see how it goes the first couple of months with our little bundle of joy and if things can be handled by staying put. I know that it will be quite stressful on my end, but this is mainly what Brock feels so I have to go with what the patriarch of our home thinks. I know that I will need a lot of help and support from my Heavenly Father, but I know that he will help us and bless us because we have brought a precious little spirit into this world.

So now that this decision has been made I need to get on top of getting the nursery ready for our little monkey. We only have 44 DAYS left 'til she is supposed to be here. Time is going by so fast now, and I'm afraid that I won't be ready for our little peanut. I guess I have a lot to do on my next couple of weeks off since I only have THREE left 'til she gets here!!! OH MY I don't think I realized that until right now!! Well I better get my bum into gear.