Does a current design dilemma have you disgruntled? You’re not alone! Featured in our August Family Homes issue, mom blogger Lela Davidson of After the Bubbly shares her own struggles with finishing out her children’s spaces—and shows that, for busy moms with growing kids, happiness and comfort can be found in a work-in-progress too. Take a moment to read her witty story below.
When I was pregnant with my first child, I scoffed at friends’ designer nurseries—their carefully coordinated bedding, crib bumpers and diaper caddies. I deemed them commercial, expensive and unnecessary. All I remembered about my own childhood bed was putting my pillow to the head or foot of it on alternating nights. Plus, my mental capacity was tapped with studying the shelf full of books promising to teach me the magic formulas to get my baby to sleep through the night and cause him to nurse only during my non-working hours. It was on a quest for the ideal stroller that I caved to the pastoral charm of Peter Rabbit and his pals—the kittens, the badgers! I left the Big Box Baby Mart with two hundred dollars worth of cotton and batting and a whimsical border—remember those?…
