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Chapter 37 – Football Crazy-Yeah right!
"Gerry will you slow down Homebase is not going to run out of nursery wallpaper if it takes us two extra minutes to there." It's Sunday afternoon and we've just left Catlin back to Jane's. Last night we decided we should be thinking about decorating materials for the nursery. See for the first week after we get the keys to the new house we have decorators, carpet fitters and tillers coming in for a week so that when they are done all we have to do is move our furniture in. That's fine for the easy rooms but when it comes to the nursery and the home office we haven't even thought about it so this week it's nursery décor next week it's office décor. So today we're looking for wallpaper, paint and carpet for the nursery and he's getting a little over excited and pulling me so fast across the car park I am about to fall over.
"Sorry I'm just excited you have to remember I didn't make any of these decisions with the girls so it's new to me too," yes I get all that and it's lovely but at almost 28 weeks pregnant I can't move that fast right now.
"I know and I'm excited too but we drove all the way out here because this place has a dedicated children's decorating centre so I don't think a couple more minutes is going to make any difference." We spent an hour this morning searching for the best place to get everything in one place and have driven 25 miles outside the city to the retail park were this place is because it's supposed to be the ultimate one stop shop for children's decorating supplies and carpet.
"We want something bright but not too bright and nothing too gaudy or they'll not be able to sleep." One of us has to try to keep a level head in all this but we're now standing in the middle of the nursery section and there has to be at least 300 choices where the hell do we start?
"Can I ban anything powder blue or with teddy bears on it?" Fair enough but that works both ways I wouldn't have been going down the pastel route anyway but if he gets to rule something out then I get to rule out my pet baby hate too.
"Yep but then I get to say no Winnie-The-Pooh or Beatrix Potter characters or any other overly sugary children's literature characters. I hate the way they plaster them on everything because it's supposed to be cute." I really do hate the fact that you can't walk into any baby shop without being drown in Winnie-the-pooh or Beatrix Potter characters even if we were having girls they wouldn't be making an appearance and they certainly won't be for boys.
"Ok yeah they can be a bit much at times so where do we start?"
"At the beginning. Boarders we don't want full wall paper do we? Wipe clean painted walls with a nice boarder would be better."
"Yeah definitely wipe clean what about…Oh god look Sandra." He's taken a bolt away from me and the nursery paper and is holding up a boarder from the boys section at the other side of the room.
"Gerry I know we agreed not to go cutie but I'd still like to stick to the nursery section not the….." Oh no, no way, he's not getting to start that when they aren't even old enough to state an opinion. "No Gerry!"
"But Sandra it's a Chelsea boarder and look over there there's curtains, a lamp, a night light and even a mat its perfect!" I can't believe I'm hearing this he really wants to fill our children's nursery with over the top merchandised products that would give any baby nightmares.
"Gerry no when they are older if they want their rooms decorated in football stuff then fine but not when they're babies no way." He's looking at me with those puppy dog eyes now and I know this is going to be more difficult to veto than the cute literature characters but I refuse to move on it.