Life before 2008 18 Oct 2006 07:31 am
Expecting a baby
Not me. My sister and BIL, Joel. I’m linking to their blog this morning because his post hit a soft spot…
“We’ve moved into another house for a while. It’s layed out the same, has most of our furniture but there’s this odd little yellow room. We used to go into the one in our old house all the time but this new room seems foreign. As if someone has grafted it onto our old house.”
I remember each nursery, each room prepared for the little one that was soon to come. The smell of paint, the clean crib, each week getting a new stuffed toy, sheet, outfit. Walking in and breathing deeply, trying to imagine how that sweet little head was going to smell, what their eyes would look like, how much hair they’d have. Wanting it all to be perfect and then, while going through a typical day of home keeping, walking past the door and smiling every time at the secret expectations it cradled within.