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[butterfly_mommy]

Wow I am so jealous of you Mama's who live in the woods and great outdoors. It has been my dream all my life to live in the woods surrounded by trees and a water feature watching my children dig in the dirt and discover the natural world. Unfortunately I live in the biggest city in Canada which isn't all bad (we do have lots of green space around and there are some fabulous programs and schools for kids) but there are just so many people and cars and stuff :( My DH however is a city boy born and raised and is just to afraid to make the jump out of the city. He is worried about how he would make money and about how much work would be involved in living in the woods (personally I think it would be such rewarding work, like growing your own food, raising chicken, cutting and collecting firewood, etc) I really feel like living in the city is slowing eroding my soul :( There is a song by Hawksley Workman called The City is a Drag 

It's killing us.
The city is a drag.
My heart's broke down and in the dirt
I feel like I'm dying slow and sure
The city is a drag

So hide your passions in between 
The daily grind and broken dreams
No some will tell you toughen up
But this old life is all you got

 

How much insanity can anyone take?
It's burning down

It's big and shiny and improved
With no room left for me to move
Prostrate to this unending grind
Sure you'll make a lot of money
But you'll never make time 

 

Ok sorry to go off on a tangent and get off topic! 

[sraplayas]

It's great to read through this thread and see the variety in what mamas are doing to prepare for baby. :)  So much fun!

I have totally gotten into nesting this past week and finally got an idea for how I'm going to fit this new baby into our house. DS has a "room" with his clothes and toys but splits his sleeptime between our bed and DD's. :) So...we're going to use half of the space for his books, toys and a little table/chair and the other half for baby's changing table/diaper station. It's shaping up nicely--in my head--but I'm still hunting for the table, baskets, etc. to transition the room.

So funny b/c I have alot of time but I keep thinking...what if the baby comes early and I'm not ready? I don't remember nesting this early with DD and DS but maybe I'm delusional!

[BroodyWoodsgal]

Originally Posted by sraplayas 
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So funny b/c I have alot of time but I keep thinking...what if the baby comes early and I'm not ready? I don't remember nesting this early with DD and DS but maybe I'm delusional!

You know it's so funny....I've been nesting, HARD, for a couple months now. I was nowhere NEAR this "nesty" with my other two until the very end. I have just about everything checked off my list....

-totally remake the toy room into an awesome bedroom

-fix all of the "lame storage" problems I was having in the kitchen and bedrooms and revamp all storage and organization

-repaint entire upstairs and downstairs of house, except for master bedroom

-I have three hugeeee rabbit hutches that needed to be moved

-revamp chicken coop to accommodate more chickens this spring

-Sort through everyones clothing and do a huge purge

-sew new curtains for kitchen, kids room, upstairs windows

-dye the kitchen and bathroom rugs and clothing I've been meaning to dye

-clean out, sort and completely purge basement

-Buy a new car that fits everyone

-Have carpets in the house cleaned

-Fix the slow drains in the kitchen and bathroom (aren;t slow drains annoying?)

-Get rid of all retained boy clothes from newborn through no-longer-fitting DS...sort through what I have of DDs clothes and separate by size into bins for new baby.

That's not to mention the sewing I've been doing....new duvet for the down comforters, new pillows to match curtains, dresses for DD, baby stuff....I've had busy, busy hands for weeks now.

I wasn't like this until VERY late in my pregnancies with DD and DS....I have almost everything, except sell our family car we've grown out of an replaced, knocked off my list of things I wanted done before June. I think my body knows that I'm SOOOOO much more tired this time around and that it's only going to get worse. Now that all of these things are done, I can really kind of sit back and just be lame and sleepy all the time (I mean, beyond the cooking, cleaning, homesteading and upcoming canning that will start this spring)....but all of these things that I looked around and wanted to cry about...the storage, the painting I wanted to get done etc etc..it's all done now. My body just had me working non-stop beginning at about 10 weeks to get this stuff pushed out.

I'm so glad though, I swear my fatigue is worse every day. I'm 24 weeks in 3 days and I feel like I did with my other two toward the end already. The pressure, my back, my fatigue. I'm so glad it's all done.

[livelovelaugh]

In the process of painting the kids' rooms for a big change up right now.  DS is in a nigger room and DD1 is in a smaller room, so they are switching rooms and DD2 will go in with DD1.  We have a little nursery attached to our bedroom that we used for an office before DD2 was born, so before the baby arrives she will move in with her sister, which everyone is excited about, and the baby will eventually be in the nursery.  DS would do nothing but co-sleep - never touched a crib - and my DD's were both terrible co-sleepers.  They just didn't take to it, which made me sad, but they were wide awake in bed with us!!  So, we will see what this one does - maybe he will be like his brother!  Glad to see others are thinking about this, though - I just started some MAJOR nesting with this project.  I am such an intense nester, and painting decluttering and moving stuff around to prepare for our new family is so much fun! 

[Veritaserum]

We're doing a nursery this time.  We never really did one and this is our last, so I want the experience.   Dh has a bunch of junk in the baby's room at the moment, so that has got to get cleared out. Hopefully he will do that soon.  I'm going to get furniture that will work for a baby and a toddler/young child.  We don't get much sleep with active babies in our bed.  Dh takes sleeping pills now, too, so I don't want babies next to him.  I have a baby bed that will go next to my side of the bed for the first couple of months.  Then I will work on transitioning him to his own room for at least part of the night.

[MamaInTheDesert]

Glad to see this thread has taken off. I love to see how everyone is preparing for the new babies.

DH has really gotten into overhauling the nursery. We have paint up! It ended up being the exact color of mint chocolate chip ice cream instead of sage-y. But, I love it! Especially since I've been eating a LOT of mint chocolate chip lately! We got rid of the 1970's fan in there and found something a little more our taste. I asked DH if he could put up some crown molding, and he asked me if I really liked the baseboards... cause he wanted to replace those too. Then the next day, he offered to change out the window and door trim... you know, since he's at it. He says he's really ENJOYING making over the baby's room. With these nesting urges, and the fact that (for no apparent reason) he's been peeing every 20 minutes today, I just had to ask him if he's pregnant too. haha.

[Nicole730]

LOL on your DH peeing every 20 minutes MamaInTheDesert!  Glad you are having fun getting the baby's room ready. :)

[sraplayas]

Originally Posted by MamaInTheDesert 

With these nesting urges, and the fact that (for no apparent reason) he's been peeing every 20 minutes today, I just had to ask him if he's pregnant too. haha.

 

[FaithHopeLove29]

How's everyone doing on this? I'm not doing a "nursery" per se - baby won't be sleeping in the room (no crib) but we are setting aside a room as a playroom and setting it up so baby can grow into it, eventually it will be his bedroom. I think I am starting to have some nesting urges - I was in there for much of the morning (and would rather be in there working than at my computer trying to find motivation to get some work done!) I'm converting my office into the baby's room, and calling it a nursery so I get less questions from family :-)

So I've started -

putting away my stuff (keyboard, crafty stuff, etc)

working on going through boxes we never opened (contain text books and note books and such from 6+ years of school)

set up a bookshelf just for children's books and started separating out the children's books I own

I need to...

go through my textbooks and get rid of them! two engineers collect a lot of them over the years... I have a large bookshelf full

find a way to pack up the clothes that don't fit me - they're currently in stacks on the floor

empty one of the closets in this room for baby's things

paint trim (walls are all set - a lovely sunshine yellow)

go through the junk that gets tossed in this room whenever company comes...

empty plastic drawers to fill with baby-related items

Hang a yarn-picture my grandmother made for me when I was born (I love that my mom let me have it - I'm sure it was really gifted to her)

I can't wait for my shower now, not really because I am particularly fond of parties where I am the guest of honor, but because I want to have things to set up for the room - I think we'll put up a pack and play and a swing in this room, because there's a futon that is particularly comfy and I could see myself spending some time during the days in this room in the weeks after baby is born. The futon will probably move out eventually, but for now it seems like it would be convenient.

Well, I'm just excited that I'm finally getting excited about this stuff, and wanted to share and see who else is working on their nurseries or whatnot.

[MamaInTheDesert]

Well, the room itself is nearly done, in that it is painted, and DH almost has all the trim up. We ran into a couple of stumbling blocks along the way, and found out why some of the trim in there was so wonky. Apparently the builder used regular nails (instead of finishing nails) along the outside edge on one wall through the hardwood floors. I'm wary of DH pulling them up and creating a bigger mess, so we're going to run some quarter-round at the bottom of the baseboards like they had before. Luckily a friend had a ton of quarter-round just hanging out in his garage. But, then also, DH found out that using his coping saw for the crown molding really activated his arthritis, so we've decided to put in those fancy corner blocks so he doesn't have to deal with it. We went out and found some we thought were right, but they ended up being for outside corners. We only had painted one, before we realized and took the other three back. Now, we just have to find the right kind in stock somewhere. I swear the trim aisle at Home Depot had 30 people in it last time. Hopefully, we will have the "bones" of the room finished by this weekend. I'm getting ancy about it.

Other than that...

Done so far:

Got the room completely cleared out. (It was a junk room, so this took a lot of effort.)

Replaced the lighting fixture.

Mom bought the cutest bedding set ever http://www.amazon.com/Woodland-Animals-Bedding-JoJo-Designs/dp/B005SSP392

Mom also got a mobile that almost matches, but isn't from the same set.

DH and I got a crib mattress on sale.

Moved my Mimi's velvet rocker in there.

Gone through about half of DD's toys, and pulled out the more "baby" items.

Need to do:

Buy crib and changing table/dresser. (It's really stressing me out that we don't have these two things..)

Put back up the curtain rods, and curtains.

Clear off an old bookshelf, and move it in there.

Get a diaper pail and wet bag.

Finish going through DD's "old" toys for baby items.

Go through DD's books, and pick out some to go in baby brother's room.

Dig out or purchase a lava lamp. (I think the old one has turned into a "blob lamp.")

Hang up shelving.

Hang up my mom's needle-points from when I was a baby.

Edited by MamaInTheDesert - 3/12/12 at 10:47am