As spring arrives, I have been very busy working on a number of things. Preparing for the new baby, revamping the website (again) and building things to make this rental house more of a home.


Tomomi is ready for baby #3 to get out. Her belly is huge and since her due date is March 31, the baby could be here any day now. We're all looking forward to it, though we're not sure how Sara will handle it yet. We'll see.

In the mean time, we have been getting ready for having 5 people here rather than four. We bought a collapsible crib so the baby can sleep downstairs when we are not up in the bedrooms, and I have been building a toy box for all of Anri's toys. This toy box is the start of my plan to make this home a little more livable for us. I got a plan online at FurniturePlans.com, downloaded it, bought the wood and tools necessary, and built the thing. It is actually a blanket chest, but works well as a toy box. And it is really big.



It took a long time to build, but it is finally done, and now only needs to be painted. The color will be a very white pink, like the color of our soon-to-blossom cherries. I plan to dilute the paint with water and apply it, allowing the wood grain to be visible through it.

But I don't plan on stopping there. The next project, time allowing, will be a bunk bed for the girls: Anri on top and Sara below. The plan is from the same source, and based on what I have seen it looks easier to make than the toy box.

And as if that were not enough, I have also done a little fine tuning to the website. Namely this weblog. Until recently, I had been manually coding my own entries, taking a lot of time to do so. I just finished adapting the site to work with Thingamablog, an open-source blog tool. Now, things are a lot easier to do. I still have to input a lot of the older entries, though. I will put these in a little bit at a time until they are all done.

In the mean time, we're just waiting for the baby. We'll keep everyone posted!