Before we found out the genders, I had decided I wanted to keep the babies' room in fairly neutral colors - brown and green.
Since life has been turned upside down since the day we found out the genders, we never got around to painting their room. There was a part of me that was relieved to come home from the hospital and NOT have to deal with a nursery full of baby things. That being said, I knew I didn't want to leave that room "unpainted" long.
After much thought and encouragement from Andy, I decided I would paint and decorate the room in the colors I had originally planned.
This past week I cleaned, prepped and painted. Here's a before shot:
And here's the beginning of the new color (cup of cocoa):
On Friday, I was three quarters of the way done when I turned to finish the last wall. The big wall (opposite the blue wall) is an inside wall, the longest and was going to be where I had envisioned putting their cribs. (I say envisioned because I bet you never really know where to put three cribs until they're in the room).
As I finished cutting in on that wall, I looked down at the brush and realized I still had a good amount of paint build up. I didn't want to waste it, so I wrote their initials on the wall.
I wrote their initials - L R G - on the wall that I had planned to spend so much time looking at as they would go to sleep and wake up. I wrote their initials because I never had the chance to make fancy initials for the walls to decorate their room. I wrote their initials because their room never became their room. I wrote their initials because I love and miss them so much and look for ways to say or write their name. So I wrote their initials:
Then I slowly painted around their initials:
And then, eventually, painted over their initials:
One day, a baby will be in this room and his or her crib will be against the wall with Leah, Rachel and Gabriel's initials.
And whenever that baby wakes up or goes to sleep, and I look at that wall, I will be reminded of L R G.
