Peek of the Week - November 4, 2011

 

What's Peek of the Week, you ask? It's our Friday feature and it's all about you! I want to hear (and share with my readers) what wowed you this week. It could be a cool finished project, a work in progress, a personal accomplishment, a cute kid moment, or something that surprised you.

If we could peek into your week - what would you want to show us?

Each week I'll share my own Peek of the Week to get the ball rolling, and invite you to link to your blog post about your Peek of the Week. I know y'all are up to cool stuff - we wanna see it!

This week we have a special treat at our house.  

The lovely and delightful Selena J is here to help me keep my sanity while Eric, Yaya and his mom Gram are jaunting around Italy, lucky punks. Selena took time off work and got on a plane to come and step in as surrogate spouse for the week...bless her heart.

 The whole family is completely smitten with her.

  Yesterday she went above and beyond the call of duty. You see, I spent the prior evening barfing on the hour every hour. It was uuuuuugly. So yesterday...bless her heart...she took Dizzy and Fidget to the Wildlife Experience for pert near 4 hours so I could rest and recover.

 And afterward I felt better enough to leave the house and go get dinner.

We were also able to pick up a humane mouse trap because despite Selena's bravest and best attempts, the little furry visitor that showed up the day Eric left, has not yet been caught. 

We'll keep you posted on that...

Oh...and bless her heart.

Now you!
You could get peeking in three easy steps:
1. Blog about your Peek of the Week - whatever it is. Whatever happened that made you proud, laugh, smile, inspired, excited, or just plain happy - now that's worth sharing.
2. Include a link to this blog or put the Peek of the Week button (on the sidebar) in your post.
3. Link your blog post using the InLinkz button below.

If you don't get a chance to get here on Friday, feel free to link your post up later.
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Eli's Nursery

Just for fun (and because my computer is recently healed enough to download photos from old computer back up disks), I thought I'd give you a peek at Eli's super sweet nursery!

When we moved to Colorado in 2007 (8 months preggo with Eli) we bought a hovel and gave it some love. My favorite part was creating a sweet little space for our soon-to-arrive first born.Fabulous modular flooring in brown and green was the starting point. Then Super Selena painted the room "Spiny Sea Urchin!" I absolutely loved this color!

And I added some trees.
And some fun lighting (thanks Ikea!).

Ahhh, baby ambiance.

And Super Selena made the beautiful bedding and window treatments. She's AMAZING! That little brown bear was the fella's from his childhood. Coincidentally - it's name: Jess.

And viola! Kitty Wendell approved. Eli was only in it for a bit, because very shortly we sold the hovel and moved into the mountain house. Alas. But painting the trees and little blue birds for our wee one helped calm the fears of becoming a mom in a completely new place.