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Anyone else nesting like mad??

post #1 of 14
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I can't stop myself from cleaning/organizing things!  In the last 24 hours I have washed the outside of all my kitchen cupboards, cleaned all the bathrooms in my house, washed all my floors and washed the walls in my hallways after I noticed some kiddie fingerprints.  Next stop is to pack away clothes from my children's dressers that no longer fit to put into the crawl space.  I feel like a mad woman on a mission! LOL  Anyone else?

post #2 of 14

Yep! The past three days, especially. 

I took Christmas down on the 26th and then spent the entire day reorganizing/cleaning my house. Despite the fact that my house is super clean, I still manage to find myself cleaning for at least half of the day. Especially the bathrooms and kitchen. I can't seem to make myself stop. 

post #3 of 14

Argh, ladies, send me some of that nesting energy!  I've got a long list and zero energy to do it.  Having two small children undoing all of my cleaning progress is really not helping the matter.

Sigh.  I was feverish about cleaning with #1, desperate with #2 and eh, this time...I joked to DH that these homebirth guests are going to have to deal with my piles of folded laundry in laundry baskets.  I *will* clean the bathrooms today!  Again! 
 

post #4 of 14

Decluttering is my stress-buster, so watch out to the rest of my family members! If they don't put away their stuff it might find it's way into a goodwill bag.  Jen - I was holding off on cleaning up Christmas, but I feel like I can do it now that I know somebody else has. LOL! 

 

Also, despite the fact that I have a 3 year old and ought to be able to remember, I am FREAKING out about having a newborn. I'm suddenly worried that I won't know what to do. It really is just nursing and rocking and changing diapers, right?

post #5 of 14
We cleaned up Christmas today. I've never done it this early, but I just have to have to house ready.
I'm also freaking out about a newborn. I have 4 kids but the youngest is almost 4 and my life is kind of easy right now as far as a little bit of freedom is concerned.
post #6 of 14

I went through my nesting phase weeks ago... now I just grump at everyone from the couch that they're messing up my house.   Poor DH is running around doing MY nesting FOR me... I am seriously on the verge of tears when I see how completely two kids and a messy husband can mess up a clean house in a matter of hours.  It's a constant roller coaster... clean (happy), messy (not happy), clean (happy), etc.  The kids are pretty good at cleaning up after themselves but the house does look lived in.  Cos, well, we are all in it 24/7.

post #7 of 14
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Originally Posted by MamaBookworm View Post

 

Also, despite the fact that I have a 3 year old and ought to be able to remember, I am FREAKING out about having a newborn. I'm suddenly worried that I won't know what to do. It really is just nursing and rocking and changing diapers, right?

 

I'm also in the same boat... my kids are turning 5 and turning 6 and I too feel like I hardly remember what to do with a newborn! 

post #8 of 14
Another in th boat with you. I have a five year old and I alternate between being totally stressed (will I remember what to do?!?) and totally lazy (I have a car seat, some diapers and some clothes, I'm fine). This week the nesting hit though. DH decided it was time to build new shelves and organize the basement. I've been madly sorting all the kids clothes in the house and organizing everything. Christmas was packed up and put away today. Tomorrow I need to make and freeze a pile of calzones so I feel a little more ready.
post #9 of 14
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Originally Posted by MamaBookworm View Post

Decluttering is my stress-buster, so watch out to the rest of my family members! If they don't put away their stuff it might find it's way into a goodwill bag.  Jen - I was holding off on cleaning up Christmas, but I feel like I can do it now that I know somebody else has. LOL! 

 

Also, despite the fact that I have a 3 year old and ought to be able to remember, I am FREAKING out about having a newborn. I'm suddenly worried that I won't know what to do. It really is just nursing and rocking and changing diapers, right?

 

I've never put Christmas away this early. I felt bad for a bit because I don't think my kiddos were quite ready yet, but I figured my acting like a crazy lady was probably worse.  LOL

I just couldn't take the clutter any more and felt stressed every time I looked at it, so it had to go. :P

post #10 of 14

The only reason Xmas is still up here is that I'm going to let my parents take it down with my DD to give them a project to do while I'm in the hospital :)

 

It's the other clutter that's driving me crazy. This is our last weekend to finish the purge. I've got our co-sleeper up, car seat ready to install, baby clothes cleaned. Only thing we don't have is a rocker/glider, but I have no idea at this point where we would put it!

post #11 of 14
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Originally Posted by tiqa View Post

I went through my nesting phase weeks ago... now I just grump at everyone from the couch that they're messing up my house.   Poor DH is running around doing MY nesting FOR me... I am seriously on the verge of tears when I see how completely two kids and a messy husband can mess up a clean house in a matter of hours.  It's a constant roller coaster... clean (happy), messy (not happy), clean (happy), etc.  The kids are pretty good at cleaning up after themselves but the house does look lived in.  Cos, well, we are all in it 24/7.

This is how I am right now. I nested like crazy and now I'm like 'ya'll need to maintain this!!!' But I did get up early this morning and completed my homeschool grading for the kids for the fall semester which was a pain in the bee-hind but I did it. yay me.

post #12 of 14

I would SO be nesting now, except the house is so bad I can't figure out where to even start, it's too overwhelming. There's stuff everywhere!!! DSD has so much new crap gifts from Christmas--four "Christmases" on our side alone--that she has no place in her room for it all, so it's cascading into all other rooms. The baby's future room is plumb full of DSD stuff, the family room barely has a walking path, it's piled around the dining table ... oh how I could just have a meltdown (and that's before her telling us about the additional things she'd like us to get for her ... um, no). I helped her clean her room yesterday, trying to purge some things so there would be room for all the new, but she refuses to get rid of anything. Under her bed we found four toys/games she had never played with before, still in the original packaging ... from LAST Christmas. Obviously they're super important to her. dizzy.gifUgh. I wish I'd gone under there before she came for the week so the never-used toys she didn't even remember she had could have been donated without her making a last stand.

 

So I'm stuck between wanting this baby to be here soon because I'm anxious to meet him/her, and wanting baby to take his/her sweet time so I can figure out a way to make the house livable with all this STUFF!

 

My unmet desire to nest is making me bananas. So much easier to just bury my head under a pillow and pretend it's all clean!

post #13 of 14

Autumngrey- if it were me, I'd go get some of those big plastic tubs and put all her stuff you need to clear out of the baby's room in those, and stack them in her room.

post #14 of 14
Good idea!!
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