Martina from My MCM Life's Profile

The Illusion Art is blowing my mind right now!

This pretty much sums up my experience exactly. I am very thankful to have a full time job that allows me to work at home every other day; MWF at the office and TTh at home. It allows me to feel like I'm still spending a lot of time investing in my daughter and managing the home while also keeping my job (and income) that I love. When she was an infant, I could work most of the day but with frequent breaks. As she became a mobile baby and now toddler, I've realized, like you, that I need to make a choice. I can't do both work and give her attention so I need to just break away from work and be a mom…usually for a big chunk of the morning. Nap time is awesome. I can get SO MUCH done in 3 hours when I know that's all I'll get until her bedtime. Obviously that's not an 8 hour work day. If I'm slammed at work, I'll put in an hour before she gets up and then get back to it when she goes to bed. I can also steal about 30 minutes of work time with a captivating episode of Yo Gabba Gabba when I'm desperate. It's a tricky balance but I'm so thankful that I can do both - work and be a mom at home, at least part of the time. It's nice to hear that others are having the same experience.

A large portion of the AT readership loves to be the "that's not child-friendly!" police. The rest of us find it quite amusing. I still get a laugh about the comments our kids' room got last year when it was featured… the guitar hanging on the wall was a bad idea because kids might be tempted to scale the furniture in order to play with it. And the monkey poster on the wall "could be scary to some kids." Thank God my toddler has not be traumatized by any pop art so far.

I used white contact paper to cover the ugly bright blue sides of the KURA which was easy and inexpensive. IKEA are you seeing these posts?? Just make the side panels white or natural wood.

I'm curious how it's working out practically to have a shared office and nursery. That was our original plan at our previous home but instead I turned a hall closet into a mini office (we called it a "cloffice").

What a refreshingly unique and artistic place! It's so different than the home I grew up in and I bet it's a really fun place to live. So much art. Very cool.

I bet none of these are as inexpensive as the turquoise blue IKEA SOMNAT that I got a year and a half ago. It was $100.

We love our IKEA Antilop as well. Looks nice and simple, great price and super easy to clean. I agree that the legs can be a tripping hazard. That's one negative. My only other complaint is that the $5 tray we added to ours (which is great!) seems to be impossible to remove once it's on. I would like the versatility of being able to push it up to the table when my daughter gets mature enough to stop flinging a plate onto the floor. I'd definitely recommend it, though.

Beautiful and very functional solution. Love it!

Ack! I need to have all 4! Thanks for the heads up.