The Percolator: Today's Coffee: Trader Joe's Bali Blue Moon

I'm usually not so good about posting blogs on an even remotely consistent basis.

I know this.

But here I am.

Well, I'm mainly able to do this because W is down for a nap and my dear sweet husband has a migraine, so I find myself with a few minutes to myself.

So, I'll tell you about our evening last night.

We finally got around to putting together M's room. Which is a good thing since we are only 5 weeks away from bringing her sweetness home!

Here's what it looked like before. Kind of our place to store everything and forget about it. For instance: I've been looking for a specific piece of music for weeks now, but couldn't find it. (As you might imagine, between T and myself, we have a lot of music in our house.) And it wasn't until Thursday I 'discovered' 2 unopened boxes, which had been stored in her room just full of violin music. Thankfully, I found the music I was looking for. But you get the idea.

This is technically better than the real before picture (which I forgot to take), as we had to find crib pieces :)

Another angle of the room.

First, we put together the crib.

We had W get involved as he was a bit confused with the whole process.

We had him go to his room and help pick out some blankets and stuffed animals that he might want to share with M. Needless to say, as soon as we were finished he wanted them back. But it was really cute for the first 5 minutes.

Crib all set up and ready for Baby M!

One of our dilemmas was that we don't ever ever ever want to paint again. And her room is a very lovely blue. After brainstorming different ideas on how to not paint her room, we decided to just paint her closet doors pink and put up some curtains to frame her changing table. I'm hoping that in the future I will be able to get my mom to paint a window scene under the curtains.

Crib is in place, and curtains are hung.

Another random thing about me: I love Starbucks' Caramel Apple Spice. It is one of two drinks that I buy there (the other, is the Caramel Macchiato). So, I love this season. Problem is: they are still really expensive. Crazy expensive. So, after some research, I found a copycat recipe.

apple juice

3 TBSP cinnamon dolce syrup (I made my own)

whip cream

caramel

The syrup was just 4 cinnamon sticks boiled in 1.5 cups of water, simmered for 15 minutes, then the sticks were thrown away. I then added 1 cup of brown sugar and stirred until melted. Boom. Cinnamon dolce syrup.

You just warm up a cup of apple juice, 3 TBSP of the syrup for 2 minutes. Then top with whip cream and drizzle caramel on top. As someone who buys a lot of these drinks from the Bucks, never again. This is so close to the original that I cannot see myself every spending a near $4 for it again.

Anyways, this happened when we all got a little tired of being around each other in the smallest room in our house. :)

Yum!

Unsure if it was going to be good or not.
It was.

After our delightful drink experiment, we headed back upstairs to put the finishing touches on M's room. I'm quite pleased, but I'm not sure if it's due to getting her room ready for her, or that I don't have to look the other way every time I walk by it as it was a constant reminder that we had not fully unpacked yet. Maybe some of both.