Signs of Progress

...And here's Ellie, happily playing in a pile of cable clip nails. Parenting at its best, I tell you.

The murphy bed is up, the tv is on the wall, and the place is slowly coming together. The rug and sofa won't be here until the end of February, and we're not getting Ellie's new crib for another couple of weeks, so after a flurry of activity in the last few days we're back in a holding pattern. But so far so good. The new layout feels spacious, and Brian and I are slowly adjusting back to life without a bedroom. It's like a return to our studio-living salad days. Hopefully the romantic nostalgia will help counteract the nuisances of reality.