Painting Alesha's Room

It took me a while to get things moving on Alesha's room. For me, it was difficult to have her room completed before I knew I was closer to bringing her home. To walk by her room day after day and see it all done and no baby girl to put in the crib was more than I could deal with.

By the middle of March I had purchased Alesha's bedding and accessories and was trying to decide on what color to paint her room. I was talking to my friend, Hillory, and she said she had some green paint that she wasn't going to use and said I could have it. I am not a real fan of green, but there was green in the bedding so I got the paint and decided to try it out and see if the greens matched. I will say that I really like THIS green. It is bright and cheerful and goes perfect with the bedding.

The painting day began a little bit at the spur of the moment. I painted a couple pieces of white posterboard so I could get a visual....I am NOT a very visual person!! My husband and boys thought it looked great and wanted to start painting. The planner in me was a bit overwhelmed, because I didn't have everything ready. I had to run to the store and buy a roller before we could even start! When I returned with the ONE and ONLY roller that was left at the store....should have been my first warning of things to come.....the furniture was all pushed to one side and the males in my house were really excited to get things moving!

ALL the excitement and THEN.. IT happened!!!!!!

The look on my son Luke's face says it ALL! Yes, that is paint you see on the carpet...not on the plastic! This was ALL MY fault!! We had finished the first wall and I needed to move the ladder to cut in the base board on the next wall and forgot that I had my cut in bowl of paint on the little holder on the top of the ladder. You guessed it, April moves ladder and bowl of paint comes flying off and hits the floor. I was absolutely beside myself. Tears began to flow and I left the room and locked myself in my bathroom where I proceeded to SOB like I haven't done in a REALLY long time. I think that the paint spill was the last straw that burst open the flood of emotions that I had been holding in for the last several months. As I sobbed my sweet husband and boys who were shocked by my sobs sprung into action and managed to clean up the paint spill and today you would never know it happened. After I finally finished my mini emotional breakdown I continued to paint the next three walls that day and then called it quits.

After one of the wall was finished.

One of the finished corners. I still want to get letters for her name and paint them pink and hang them from some beautiful ribbon on the wall above her crib.



We decided to paint the entire room green. We had just the right amount of paint with some left over for touch ups later on as needed! I still need to get some shelves to hang above the dresser to put stuff on and I want to find some material to hang across the top of the closet and have it hang down gathered on both sides. These details will have to wait until later, but the majority of the room is done and we enjoy hanging out in there as a family and talking about our sweet baby girl.

To say that the painting of the Alesha's bedroom turned out to be a VERY eventful experience would be an understatement! The paint spill was used by God to help ME spill all the emotions that I had held in. It was used to have our family work together as a team. I stand in awe of how God provided the bedding for an amazing deal, we received free paint from a friend and it was a perfect match, and how my gliding rocker from 12 years ago that I used when my first son was born fits perfectly into the room. God is AMAZING in how he works out the littlest of details.