Coming up...

I am soooo excited! Next week is Wesley's spring break! That is a big deal in our house, because during a normal school week our days look like this....Cam wakes us up around 6, Wes gets ready and leaves around 7:30, Wes gets home around 5, we usually spend an hour together or so, then I make dinner, we put Cam to bed, and Wes studies while I clean up, we get ready for bed together and read our devotional, then I go to bed and Wes stays up until around 1:30 studying. Basically our days consist of studying and trying to cram in some time together. So spring break for me is all about family time. I look forward to waking up in the morning and not having to get Wes out the door. I am excited to have him home and get him all to ourselves. 


But that is not where it ends. There is a downside to school breaks during medical school...you don't actually have much of a break. Sure, he won't be going to class, but the studying does not get a break. He has to take his huge board exams in June, so he plans on studying for those a few hours each day during the break. I am ok with that! He plans to study each morning until around 12, which is fine. I use my mornings to organize, get ready, and make sure Cam goes down for a nap. So thankfully I will be busy while he is busy. But after 12, he is allllll mine!!! 


So what are we going to do with our time together?? Well, good question! We are going to redesign our bedroom!! Ahhh I can't wait! We actually have always loved our bedroom. I make sure it is always clean and tidy, because it is our escape. We love to have our alone time in our room, and making it a calm and inviting space makes that alone time all the better. But I am just sick of it. I am tired of the colors, tired of our bedspread, and I love to redesign and repurpose the things we have. So change is coming! We are planning to repaint the walls, recover our headboard (a how-to will come along with that), possibly redo or just buy new nightstands, and painting our current decor to match our new look. 

A little inspiration:
I love the simplicity of the black and white in this room.

We are transforming our room from warm tones; tan, brown and blue to more cool tones; black, white, and gray! My only problem right now is deciding on our accent color. I can not decide if I want our accent color to be a teal blue, lime green, or neutral taupe. I really want it to be a look that we won't have to change for the next few years. Here are some ideas that I am looking at to help me decide on an accent color.

I am loving the teal accents in this room.

I love the hint of red. I am usually not a fan of black, white and red, but just a little bit, like in this space, is nice.

I am actually surprised how much I like the yellow. 

Again, I am liking the punch of red on the floor, but still not sold on adding it as my accent. I was actually drawn to this picture because of the bedding....LOVE!

So for now, I will continue to dream up our perfect bedroom and post a few pictures along the way. I can't wait to start on it next week, and hopefully complete everything before Wes goes back to school. We are also on a very tight budget, so it will be fun to see what we can come up with!


I will leave you with this. A before picture of our bedroom. This is actually not the most recent picture. We no longer have that little lamp on the nightstand, but we do have some nice larger ones that I know we will be changing in our upcoming remodel. Stay tuned to see how it will change...