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Vietnam: Hanoi

December 8, 2017

Written by ashleyrespecki

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Popping an older, summery pregnancy photo into the

Popping an older, summery pregnancy photo into the feed so I don’t forget this cuddly moment with my fur baby in our freshly renovated lower level... I mean, it’s 2020—the cloud could disappear for all I know and I’d lose alllll my pictures/documentation of my favorite memories. ⁣
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Two days shy of 38wks pregnant over here and @nicholasrespecki and I have checked off almost our entire pre-baby checklist: mine included baby gear and essentials, postpartum goods, maternity leave details...his was ALL house related. Tell me you’re not surprised...⁣
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The house has been deep cleaned in preparation for baby’s arrival though—which means I can finally take some after photos of this reno project to share 👏🏻 In the meantime, swipe for just a little taste of what the corner behind me used to look like. 🙈 In January I couldn’t believe we were taking this on, but now, I’m so grateful we tackled this space after all, because it’s probably going to be baby central this fall/winter!

This photo isn’t from today, but I DID make our

This photo isn’t from today, but I DID make our bed on this Monday and I’m feeling pretty good about it. 🛏 ⁣⁠⠀
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I’m in the pregnancy stage where sleep is miserable: bathroom breaks all night, night sweats, insomnia once I’m up. This must be how adults transition into never sleeping. Nick and I also sleep with 3 pillows each now—mine for pregnancy, his for lower back issues—so I think a king bed may be in our future. Any hot tips on surviving the crappy sleep stage of pregnancy?! Or any king bed recos?⁣⁠⠀
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In other news, I’ve got a @liketoknow.it account now! You can get to all these bedroom products in my link in bio.📲 (You can always still message me for a product reco. I’m just bummed @amazon says I’m still not cool enough for a shop page even though I’ve probably recommended a bazillion purchases with them. 😩 I’d tag all my fav pillows from there if I could!)

In honor of our current lower level bathroom reno,

In honor of our current lower level bathroom reno, sharing some glow up and reno process images of our main bathroom. Swipe! ⬅️ (There’s a bonus photo at the end: us installing a new toilet because Nick couldn’t stand the idea of sitting our bums on a 65yr old toilet that so many other bums had been on. 😂) ⁣
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This bathroom is massive and wasn’t in terrible shape. It just needed minor TLC in the form of drywall clean up, primer, paint, new faucets and lighting, and of course, new trim and some black hardware. Not pictured is a giant cast iron tub I adore, but, as much as I love that one thing, we will definitely be doing some more serious upgrades in here in the future—this will be our last major room to upgrade in #therespeckireno one day. (Nick said “next year” the other day and after a long LOL, I had to remind him we’ll have a not-quite one year old child then! 😳)
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We’re working away on the other bathroom reno today. A little recap of the process so far is in my stories. The good stuff is right around the corner! Tile, fixtures, lights. 💃

When we shared that we were expecting Baby Respeck

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Excited to share that Baby Respecki is expected to

Excited to share that Baby Respecki is expected to join #therespeckis on October 3! ❤️⁣
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Unintentionally, we’ve waited 21 weeks to share this news broadly. But, we went through a lot of love and loss 🌈 to get to this point, and there is a lot of heavy sh*t going on in the world, so the celebration and joy we’re experiencing has felt a little funny. But, I’m so excited (worried), Nick’s so excited (panicked), and Sawyer’s… meh (iffy on big brother status 🤣). ⁣
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I do feel like right now, it’s important to commit to this much as we begin our journey of parenting: Together we’ll teach our child about compassion, equity, *human* rights, community, diversity, listening, understanding, speaking up, caring for others, learning from history, privilege and unfair disadvantages, faith and hope, and so much more. But most importantly, we’ll teach and show this baby what LOVE is and what it can do in this world. We so hope our community will help us in this journey. After all, it takes a village, right?!

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