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Seeing a Baby Nursery in My Dreams
Spring break has come at last. What a relief. I couldn’t concentrate on my studies, because I was always daydreaming about a baby nursery. It seemed like each daydream contained a different style of baby furniture. Each daydream brought visions of a different type of baby nursery bedding. My head could not contain all of the information that I got in class. All that I could keep in my head was my dreamed-up baby nursery themes.
Maybe it sounds like I myself am expecting. I’m not. I am not even married. I am just a very lonely girl who has learned some very exciting news.
It all started the other day when I went with a friend to Jonathan Beach Club in Santa Monica, CA. There to my surprise I found my cousin, working in the office. Then I got a bigger surprise. I found out that he had recently purchased some of the necessary furniture for a baby nursery. I was going to be an aunt.
What excited me most of all was the news that I would be able to say that I had a niece. Imagine that, a niece. After spending 21 years wishing for a little sister, I could easily think up many baby nursery themes that might guide me in buying something for the bedroom of my baby niece.
When I went to Sears recently I picked-up their latest catalog, the one with the baby on the cover. After leafing through that catalogue, I wanted to help create a bedroom with a book as the baby nursery theme. I wanted to buy baby nursery bedding covered with characters from the Pooh stories by A.A. Milne.
That got me thinking about the many different characters in the popular children’s books, and the many different characters that could be part of a baby nursery theme. For example, my own aunt, the woman who will be the grandmother of my niece, once wore a Halloween costume that made her look like the teacher who drives the magic school bus. My cousin might find that theme acceptable, but I don’t know if the baby’s mother would be pleased with a nursery designed around that series of books.
Still, I do not want to be like the chemistry teacher that my aunt once told me about. That teacher, too, had been an aunt. Her story of gift buying for her niece had begun long after the time when she had had any sort of baby nursery idea. That teacher had recounted to my aunt a story about the time that she was looking for Christmas presents. She had purchased a chemistry set for her nephew and a doll for her niece. Even though that woman later became the first female president of the American Chemical Society, she could not bring herself to give a chemistry set to her niece.
As you can see this whole baby nursery idea has me doing a great deal of writing. That is because I seem unable to stop thinking of different themes for my niece’s bedroom. Apparently, from what I have been told, any theme that I come up with will have to match with a pink baby bed. That eliminates certain possibilities. In a way that strikes me as a good thing.
I was a bit concerned that my niece might have to sleep in a room that showed evidence of being themed to match the interests of my cousin. I thought the baby girl might be surrounded by pictures of wrestlers. At least now I know that that is not going to happen. What a relief.
- written by Sue Cher.