Since announcing we are expecting, we have had many inquiries as to what will be the theme of the nursery. At first, I thought, “Theme? We need a theme? Oy.” And then we bought a crib (cherry stained) and acquired my mother’s dresser from when she was a baby (white paint). We don’t even have continuity in furniture and we need a theme? Then we registered for baby things and found that there were themes aplenty throughout these stores. We didn’t like any. This may sound odd, but we don’t want it to look to “baby-fied.” Rather, we want the room to be more appropriate for a little girl than for a baby.

But what kind of little girl will we have? One that loves animals (like my niece) or one that loves dolls (like I did) or one that is a tomboy? Then that evolved into thinking we’d want her input on what her room looks like. Well, great. So what do we do with the room between now and when she has a real opinion?

Then we looked around the house. A rocker we already own will be placed in her room. The bookcase currently in the room will stay. That will round out the furniture. Color? We did select lavender. In truth, it’s my favorite color and CS likes it too. We’ll get a rug (I am thinking in the shape of a flower) to put under the rocker to protect the wood floor. My sister and I made curtains for this room some years ago. They are orange and I still love them. If they look good once the room is painted lavender, they’ll stay. If not, we’ll swap them for white ones (with a touch of green) that are in our bedroom.

So, really, we are down to the wall hangings. So what theme??? Again, we looked around the house. CS and I like art and buy a lot in our travels, and some are kid-friendly. For example, we have several Children’s Hospital Chuck Jones’ prints that are signed and framed. We have some Bugs Bunny and one Daffy Duck. One of Bugs happens to have a lavender matting. Voila! The centerpiece of her room has thus surfaced. To that we will add two animal masks (one dog, one cat) that we got in Taos, NM. Once that’s all in there, we’ll see how it looks and adapt as necessary.

So I guess there IS a theme in there, but damned if I can tell you what it is. All I hope is that we do not get any of those pillowy letters that spell her name that someone expects we’ll put on her wall. We won’t–it’d clash with the theme.