Aw man, I looooove being a cheapskate! The crib set I wanted was recently featured on Craigslist for $125 and now resides in a few different rooms of my house. That's a crib, crib mattress, changing table, changing table pad. The crib alone on Amazon on sale was $160. The cheapest mattress was $40. Changing table on Amazon was on sale for $75. The changing pad I'd registered for at Target was $27. That woulda been about $300!
I would feature a picture of the set but I had to take the crib apart to bring it through the doorway. Will update when the room is prettified. What's funny is that I'm getting all worked up making the room perfect when I know the baby doesn't care what the room looks like. She just wants me to eat some nutritious food, take my vitamins and maybe sing to her every now and then. It's also funny that I'm bound to forget something. When I planned my wedding I was most excited about the appearance and feel of the event. I had tons of flowers, I painstakingly tracked down some sage green tablecloths, I chose the perfect invitations, I found a pretty old-fashioned church even though I didn't give a hoot about God. But when the day came, there was no one to cut the freaking cake! Some friends had to step in and do it. Yeah...I'm bound to forget something that's actually important.
Anyway, it does feel good fixing up the room because I just want to do stuff for her. I don't yet feel her consistently, I feel a kick about once or twice a day, very subtle. But I want to act positively on her behalf, the first tiny sacrifices in a life of self-sacrificial love.
Looking forward to my February baby, but I'll settle for this just this cool weather for now :)
