{pretty, happy, funny, real} ~ Before and During in Sukie’s Kitchen

 

~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~

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{pretty, happy, funny, real}

We’re so happy to be back home on the East coast after our stint in Texas for the summer (the Quack did a four-month rotation at a hospital in Houston). It was a long, hot, busy summer; now we’re just settling into a new rental house and and getting ready for the impending expansion of our family.

My kitchen in our new house is all renovated brand-new (with gorgeous countertops), and it’s not a small room, but things are not quite as they should be. This has made made it hard to get set up properly — hence the clutter in that “before” picture up there!

Everything is on one side of the room, including the fridge-stove-sink all in a row, meaning that things end up having to be staged on the stovetop.

The cabinets were installed VERY high — I am a shorty, true, but I can only just reach the bottom shelf! Granted, things will be easier once I am not also reaching across a crazy 40+ week belly (if you’d like to go ahead and toss up a few prayers for a safe delivery relatively soon, I’d sure appreciate it!).

(Since the cabinets are so high, I got a good sturdy step stool for myself. Of course, Freddie immediately discovered that he can drag the step stool wherever he wants and get into everything — the world is his oyster! Or was, before I gated off the kitchen. Mama wins for now.) (I’m happy to have him in the kitchen with me. It’s him being in there when I’m in a different room that’s dangerous.)

Here is the full, sad width of the sink. That’s the bowl from my kitchenaid mixer for scale. I think it probably was meant to be a secondary sink in a large kitchen — you know, just for washing vegetables.

The room obviously cried out for a piece of furniture along the empty wall to make things manageable. I was here for 2 1/2 weeks before the Quack came — he had to finish up his rotation in Texas, while I had to get back here before I was too far along to travel. So from 36-38 1/2 weeks pregnant I was here solo parenting (I did have help from my mom and my sister-in-law, but still). Not the ideal situation for getting furniture.

Well, I still spent plenty of time perusing craigslist, and came across this Hoosier cabinet for a steal right before John came home. My A+, top-notch, amazing husband drove from Texas to Maryland in a couple of days, and then the very next day drove two hours round trip to get this beauty for me.

Little Dino #2 is due any day now, so my mom is here to help out. She did a whole bunch of organizing in my kitchen today. This wonderful cabinet is making the whole kitchen come together.

 

 

An awesome bonus of the Hoosier cabinet is that the enamel counter pulls out, enabling you (and in this case by “you” I mean “my mom”) to do some serious baking prep.

 

 

There’s still plenty more to do to make the flow of the kitchen work well for me — I’m planning to move all the dishes from that corner cupboard out into the dining room and store things that I don’t need so frequently in there instead–but it’s coming along! And the really crucial thing is that I didn’t give birth in those 2 1/2 weeks, right?

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