Thursday, February 14, 2008
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Don't Forget About the Baby's Room
Yes, the baby going to be an additional member to the family. Which means, it's going to stay. Which mean, it need a room! Whatever spare room you had - guest bedroom, perhaps your office, workout room, little closed-off den that you padded so you could play TV at night when the world slept, or maybe it was her room, will now be . . . the baby’s room!
Assuming you have a moderate-sized home, chances are the new baby’s room will be dreadfully close to the master bedroom so you can hear anything louder than a whimper and tend to the baby. Don’t gripe. You’ll want the baby to have a room of its own. There will be times when you’ll wish it was in a spare room at the neighbor’s house!
Will it be a boy or a girl? Oh, you don’t like those new-fangled things, like Ultrasound? You choose to wait until the baby is born to determine it’s sex?. Hey, that’s okay too. Just know that the sex determines the color the baby’s room will be painted, whatever clothes you decide to buy before the baby arrives, and what toys you plan for the little tyke.
So, choose a color and take a chance. It’s 50/50; better odds than you’ll get at Vegas or Atlantic City. Seventy-five percent of the 50 or so mothers-to-be I interviewed wanted to wait until the baby was born to see if it was a boy or a girl. No need to find out for certain anyway; you already know it’s going to be a boy.
Sister Thelma the psycic - you remember - the lady in that old building with the palm of her hand acting as a sign that she’s in business, the one that sees all and knows all, told your wife it was going to be a boy three years ago! You believed it too. And that only cost five bucks. Far cheaper than any test in the doctor’s office, huh?
Who does the decorating? Not the man-of-the-house; he’s working earning money to buy blue paint and blue wallpaper. So the woman gleefully gets to choose the decor. Oh, she’ll ask you for an opinion but, take a good hint of advice, agree with her whatever she suggests. She’ll do it her own way regardless, so why not agree? Besides, you have other things to do like . . . Taking out the garbage, doing the groceries and cleaning the house.
Assuming you have a moderate-sized home, chances are the new baby’s room will be dreadfully close to the master bedroom so you can hear anything louder than a whimper and tend to the baby. Don’t gripe. You’ll want the baby to have a room of its own. There will be times when you’ll wish it was in a spare room at the neighbor’s house!
Will it be a boy or a girl? Oh, you don’t like those new-fangled things, like Ultrasound? You choose to wait until the baby is born to determine it’s sex?. Hey, that’s okay too. Just know that the sex determines the color the baby’s room will be painted, whatever clothes you decide to buy before the baby arrives, and what toys you plan for the little tyke.
So, choose a color and take a chance. It’s 50/50; better odds than you’ll get at Vegas or Atlantic City. Seventy-five percent of the 50 or so mothers-to-be I interviewed wanted to wait until the baby was born to see if it was a boy or a girl. No need to find out for certain anyway; you already know it’s going to be a boy.
Sister Thelma the psycic - you remember - the lady in that old building with the palm of her hand acting as a sign that she’s in business, the one that sees all and knows all, told your wife it was going to be a boy three years ago! You believed it too. And that only cost five bucks. Far cheaper than any test in the doctor’s office, huh?
Who does the decorating? Not the man-of-the-house; he’s working earning money to buy blue paint and blue wallpaper. So the woman gleefully gets to choose the decor. Oh, she’ll ask you for an opinion but, take a good hint of advice, agree with her whatever she suggests. She’ll do it her own way regardless, so why not agree? Besides, you have other things to do like . . . Taking out the garbage, doing the groceries and cleaning the house.
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