More pictures of our house

We've sort of gotten the bedrooms organized. We call this room James's room, but he really doesn't use it. He still sleeps in our bed, so it's more of a kid's reading room and diaper changing room. We let them keep a couple of toys up here too, but most of them are in the basement.


Here's the girls' room. It's really tiny, so when Eve grows into a twin size bed, I think we're gonna have to do bunk beds because there's no way we can fit two twins in here. The girls really like their room. All of the bedrooms get a lot of natural sunlight and they're very bright and cheery.

Here's our bedroom. That little lump on our bed is James taking a blessed nap. Chris and I finally got all of our clothes into drawers and closets, so it doesn't look like a wardrobe tornado blew through it. The blinds are arriving in a week and a half which will be very nice.

We really need someone to visit us so that I can get motivated to make the guest bedroom cute. Right now, we're putting the boxes in there that we aren't sure what to do with. We're going to IKEA tonight to get some shelves, so I think we can finally unpack some books soon.

Several hours later... So we're back from the IKEA run and I just need to blog about how great IKEA is. IKEA is the coolest place ever. For like $380 we got 3 big bookcases, 1 coffee table, 2 side tables, 2 decorative baskets, a shower curtain, and a pack of batteries. And they're all cool pieces of furniture. I mean, they're nothing fancy, but they're sleek, simple, well-designed pieces of furniture that we will use for a very long time. Everything from IKEA is so well thought out and efficient. Chris was saying how weird it is that good-products-low-prices is not like some amazing concept, but somehow when the Swedes do it, you get IKEA and when Americans do it, you get Walmart. How come Swedes do stuff way cooler than us? Maybe some day when I'm a rich novelist and order stuff out of the Horchow catalog, I'll look back and cringe with distaste at my poor college days when I thought $13 end tables made out of particle board from IKEA were the greatest thing ever. But for now, I'll sing praises to IKEA.