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Congrats on the baby! Warning: People will have this bizarre need to give you cutesy animal towels and washcloths that fold oddly and take up a lot of space. I feel your pain, we have an equally small bathroom. We have high ceilings and considered putting cabinets up...decided it would look weird in the bathroom so we were actually going to put it above the door in the attached small hallway so it looked built in. It would have been odd but useful and removeable in the event of resale. I ended up just pairing down, (goodbye animal towels), we had a washer/dryer stack which needed replacement and opted for a combined washer/dryer (one box) unit and used the "new" space for shelving. If you have floor space elsewhere, you can also use storage furniture. We built a platform bed in the nursery with three sliding containers underneath, storage boxes under the crib, storage ottoman etc. Good luck!

thats a great room, for now. Once the baby can pull up the crib won't be safe and forget about keeping anything neat on those bottom 2-3 shelves. Nice for a non-mobile baby though.

I don't know many things but I do know my cake pops. I was excited to see that Starbucks is now carrying cake pops in three flavours: rocky road, tiramisu, and birthday cake. I tried rocky road, it tasted cheap and cheaply processed. I could just taste the corn syrup and the little marshmallows are best described as spongy wrongness. Alas, I love cake pops so am determined to try all three. Hopefully one of them won't totally suck.

I'd make cinnamon caramel crackers, using this recipe as a base: http://smittenkitchen.com/2009/04/chocolate-caramel-crackers/

How about dinner? I'm not great in the kitchen but we all have to eat so I just use whatever easy recipe we have. Fish cakes, pot pies, lasagna and other casseroles are good bets. She gets to mix, pour, shape, whatever, anything except handle raw meat. She's 3.5 now but has been interested in cooking for ages. I let her pick out recipes - she only gets to choose the ones with sugar every now and then.

I used a ring and transferred it from hand to hand, which worked pretty well once I actually remembered to switch, but I'd probably throw one of those bracelets into a shower basket.

Thanks! Yes, regular plywood works fine but you have to be sure to sand it really well to guard against splinters. You can probably use particle board or MDF as well.

If you don't have the time or inclination to DIY, you can also try raw furniture stores. I understand some of them have or can special order storage/radiator combos.

Favourite word as a new mom: SLEEP!