How's the nesting coming along?

[BensMom]

For us,we have been working for the past 3 weeks on moving DD into her new room,rearranging furniture,cleaning closets, sorting kids clothes. Its finally coming together and I am very excited. DD is sleeping in her big girl bed, her clothes and most of her stuff is in there. The babys stuff is all finding places in the nursery. (I put baby clothes in the dresser today! YAy! Still have to take it all back out to wash it though. Shhhh)

If I can finish up with the few boxes left up there tomorrow, I hope I can work on getting some kids clothes consigned this week. Whatever doesnt sell will be donated. Then its just clean, clean, clean...

And wait, wait, wait...

[MissAnnThrope]

I just finished packing my bag for the hospital. Went out and bought the last few things we needed for it (shampoo and such... and some girlie blankets)

I washed and put the car seat back together. Just got to put it in the car now.. tomorrow that will be done.

We've got so much done in the past few weeks. It feels good. But I figure with all contractions I've been having I better be ready.

[snugglebutter]

Right now nesting seems highly over-rated. I had this (very very stupid) idea that we should paint our bedroom and the kids' room. Dh (very very stupidly) went along. Because of the age of the house, this also involves painting the ceiling, trim/molding and doors. I am sick of it. After tonight, we will be done with ceilings and walls. Of course the trim is going to feel like it's taking 8,000 years. And I'm also sick of all the extra furniture hanging out in the living room.

Once the painting mess is done I can move on to the fun stuff like washing baby clothes etc.....

[carriebft]

I stuffed all the diapers tonight and cleaned off the area we are storing them in. I also went out and got a new diaper pail since we've only ever used disposables before. Then we rented a rug cleaner and that is the job for tomorrow!!

[~NewMa~]

Washed, folded and put away all baby clothes and blankets.
Cloth diapers are going through there numerous washes before first use stage.
Car seat is in car and stroller stored in trunk.
Birth pool and hose are cleaned out.
Closets have all been organized.
Garden has been raked out and cleaned up

Still need to clean window sills really good (live in old house with deep sills)
and do the basic house clean up (dust and vacuum really good, clean toilets and tub...) the stuff I should've been doing today but slacked on

I feel like things are coming along pretty well though.
I feel pretty accomplished *pat on the back*

[treehuggermama]

My 3 trips to L&D last week for preterm labor/terbutaline convinced me it was time to get into high gear! We put up the border in the nursery finally (although dh finds it humerous that we are even bothering getting it ready; it is not like the baby sleeps there for the first year or so!) We also finally figured out how to put 3 full sized convertable car seats in the van and my labor bag is packed and ready to go...Now we just need the baby

[KariM]

I'm doing odd nesting sort of things - cleaning areas that haven't been cleaned in a while.

Yesterday I felt moved to clean the baseboards around the dog's dish area. :

I went crazy cleaning off horizontal surfaces in the kitchen and cleaned out the microwave oven. I keep eyeing the oven and thinking I should clean it as well.

I've had the baby's things ready to go for weeks and weeks already and I'm feeling SO READY for this little one to join us!

[paphia]

I have my birth kit packed, and my baby-stuff kit packed. I got my baby diapers but I haven't washed them yet. I still need to order a wrap.

This whole week and part of last, we have been sick and now it is my turn. But I've been plugging along anyway, and right now I am working on freezer meals since reading about what everyone else was making inspired me to try a few things.

I guess I still need to get the baby seat, swing and pack n play cleaned up and put where we have easy access to them. I need to be able to stick this baby somewhere dd can't bite him/her. Ugh, she's been biting me so much.

[nutbee]

I've been putting together the last few things I need for the babe, washing the diapers, etc, and we also put up the crib today (we like to have it for clean laundry that needs to be folded I think because we never used it with our first ).

I keep waiting for that undeniable urge to clean and organize to hit, though, because I really REALLY don't feel like doing a darn thing. I just want to lay in bed and sleep. Or at least read good books and eat chocolate

[counterGOPI]

hmm about 1/2 done with my list... or so. red=done organe=in progress

- find a name for little sprout
-stain lini's table and chairs- DONE
-label,print,burn to cd,organize and file in photo albums ALL of lini's pics
-buy size small organic diapers (have 18)
-buy a britax
-knit,knit,knit-still need to do:
ltk sun hat , mayeb somemore shorties too.(finished: 1 nb soaker,1 small shorties, 1 nb longies, 1 nb/small longies,2 nb-3months booties, cardigan,hat,sheepy sack,mice for the cats, more washcloths)
- sand and re-finish horse swing to hang back outside
- get hospital bag ready
- print out birth plan
-sell old crib bedding
-sew up and wash lini's diaper stacker
-give d'anne fi pics i've taken over this last year : and get lini pics from halloween and pumpkin picking
-wash all clothing,dipes,bassinet bedding etc for sprout
- get someone to cover BF support group/hospital rounds for the week
-make/freeze meals
-figure out how exactly i want lini to be involved in birth
- get shelves for stereo and cds in playroom/bedroom and hang it up organize it
-touch up paint in house
-finish painting kitchen door
-move baby clothes downstairs
-sew up lini's diaper stacker
-re-coat high chair
-get camera fixed
-get baby htings out of attic
-organize lini's room
-train the darn dog That's not gonna happen :
-birth beads mail out
-read tandem nursing book
-move rocking chair to bedroom
-organize knitting patterns

[ChristyH]

Ugh! Not good here. Luckily we got most things done ages ago so I'm pretty much set except for a few things.
Sidecar crib is done
Washing clothes and diapers are done
Decluttering of most of the house is done
Setting up middle DD in bigger room she'll eventually share with baby is done

DH is out of town again and has been for the past 3 weeks and he won't be home for at least another 2 weeks maybe 3 weeks. I'm basically just trying to keep up with normal housework and maybe a few extra things without losing my mind. My oldest luckily is VERY helpful so she's been a blessing and a real trooper. Other than that I have not packed my hospital bag or put the car seat in the hospital, I really need to get on that.

[2xshy]

things are pretty much done here. I just got the car seat today..finally. I have all the clothes washed, washed and stuffed the diapers, put together the swing. I haven't bothered with the stroller i'll do that once she's arrived and i want to use it but i dont plan on using it too much.
The one thing that's putting a cramp in my nesting is the furniture. I ordered it in mid january and it STILL isn't here. It was supposed to come mid february and it didn't. i'm just really annoyed, i have all this stuff that i'd like to put away but can't so all the baby stuff is in the baby room on the floor in piles. arg.
It's a good thing we're co sleeping or i would be seriously freaking out.
Oh and cleaning, i just need to manage to keep on top of the day to day stuff and we shold be good.

[ErikaG]

It's interesting, the things I'm okay with doing, and the things I'm uncomfortable with. I still haven't bought the car seat...I need to be okay with doing that really soon. We were at a party today, and the father of one of the hosts was asking if we were ready, and was really on my case about getting ready. (The people who were hosting the party are expecting a baby in mid-June.) But it feels presumptuous to buy the car seat before the baby actually is here...like I'd be jinxing something. Still, I do need to do that, and maybe I will tomorrow or Monday. This is also part of the reason I haven't packed a hospital bag or actually finished writing a birth plan yet...which the doula is on me to finish. I should take it with me to the OB this week, too so that he can sign it, put it in my chart and transmit it to the hospital so that if one of his medically minded colleagues are there instead of him, I still get what I want to the greatest extent possible (and I'm just hoping that it happens to be one of the midwives on call that night...thankfully, while the pregnancy is high risk, the labor and delivery isn't, and so, whoever is on call gets to deliver the baby, rather than being limited to one of the MDs.)

But the nesting? I was in tears on Monday or Tuesday or last week because of the state of the house. My husband, who I'm so grateful for (and his boss as well) took Thursday afternoon off to help me out with the mad nesting impulses. The kitchen has been scrubbed, with the exception of the floors. My living room has become "project staging area". We pulled everything out of the guest room that wasn't furniture, and I'm in the process of sorting all the papers in to "keep, recycle, shred" and there's also a lot of other things that are destined for the charity shops.

A good part of the baby laundry is done-I still need to wash the newborn/small diapers, because those came to me second hand, and prep the medium and large stuff. I need to figure out what we still need to purchase, and get it. I need to finish the massive mess in the living room, though that's actually something I've made big dents in. I need to do a little rearranging of the bookshelves, but I can do that by directing my husband as to what to put where while my husband is home if needed, and staying on the couch. The big thing is getting the living room cleaned-I need to finish emptying the last few boxes, getting the "to be filed" stuff into files, and so on, and cleaning off my desk. And of course, the cooking, some of which starts tomorrow.

One should know better than to try and decide what clothing actually fits and what gets given away when one is eight and a half months pregnant.

[pixiepunk]

DH is home and actually pretty energetic this weekend (working 3 jobs has a way of wearing you out!) and we've been totally cleaning and reorganizing the kitchen. it feels great! we've already planned that next weekend we'll be renting a steam cleaner and doing all the carpets which i'm really psyched about - we've been talking about doing it since before christmas but i'm actually glad we waited because now i won't have to worry about it for quite a while.

i have a few slings to sew for some co-workers who are due within a week of me, and i've got some dying to do - prefolds and white baby t-shirts are getting a make-over in some fun, bright primary colors. everything else is washed, most of it's put away - though i haven't exactly figured out where we're going to keep diapers yet.

my birth kit came in the mail on thursday, and this week i'm headed to Target to buy the remaining few items i need so i can get the birthing stuff together. my 36 week appointment is on thursday, and i imagine she'll want to look over all that stuff, so that's a big priority.

and the weekend of the 29/30 my mom is coming up and we're going to have a cooking frenzy and freeze a bunch of meals, and also go to Costco and buy a bunch of stuff to stock the cupboards with so i can get by just sending DH to the near-by not-so-great grocery store once a week to fill in the gaps for the first little while after the baby comes. we're also planning on doing a little additional cleaning, whatever DH and I haven't gotten around to between now and then.

it feels good to start getting stuff done. i've been in *major* denial until this weekend

[oyinmama]

hey, we broke down last month and got our bare-bones baby kit together: an infant bucket and a bunch of underclothes, a going home outfit, burp cloths, socks, sacks, swaddlers, even a pack of diapers! now i'm supposed to do LAUNDRY too??

heh

our EDD is the 24th; and part of me feels like i must have plenty of time b/c the nesting feelings are SO not there yet. but a dim panic is rising in the house. DH pulled a 'hospital bag' out of the attic yesterday. i suppose it's only a matter of time before we're expected to begin filling it.

[mkmama]

ohh nesting. well...i just packed two bags for the USA move (my mom is coming for April and i'm sending lots back with her so i don't have to deal with it in June when we move back).

Got rid of some more furniture to friends

Totally rearranged the living room since there is less furniture and have lots of bags for the thrift store and things to give away to people. i'm trying to "move" as much as possible so i can focus on my son and baby the 5 weeks before we depart for the USA and leave our London home.

I'm also preparing as much as possible for things we'll need in teh USA. i have a hundred lists going on. its not stressing me out tho, i think organizing is fun. i'm wierd. i also love to clean. feels sooooo good.

i really really REALLY have an urge to scrub each and every nook and cranny again...but i'm making myself wait until the 1st week of April b/c i want it to be spic and span when my mom gets here and as clean as possible before baby gets here so i can just maintain. i don't want to have to "deep clean" twice so i have to resist the urge!

Otherwise we have what we need for the baby which is basically our Ergo from DS, diapers, blankets and clothes. I don't need anything else really. Everything else is for when she's older and we'll be in the USA anyways. we don't even have a car here.

now to buy plane tickets!

[mama_ani]

During yet another 3 hour long 'false' labour fun time last night I realized I have yet to put together the list of supplies the midwives want ready so that's been today's nesting... plus cleaning so that if I actually go into labour some day no one will die trying to walk through my house!

[Jennisee]

It's weird. I had been nesting for weeks and weeks, but now, all I want to do is nap.

[blizzard_babe]

Um... does it count that I'm getting the urge to nest by proxy through DH? I'm still too scatterbrained to tackle any of the projects I so desperately want to complete, but if I were just a little bit more of a sadist, I could just hand the list to DH...

I'm betting I suddenly feel strong nesting urges on April 6th. Why's that? Because that's the day I'm leaving home to wait out the end of my pregnancy in someone else's home in Anchorage. She may just come back to a sparkly-clean nested home when she returns to it this summer.

[riverside knitter]

This weekend was spent in a laundry and organizing frenzy, which was contrary to my modified bed rest orders. I couldn't help myself. I also finished knitting one more soaker and cast on for yet another under the guise of organizing - gotta use up those half-balls and oddballs that are taking up space! And I'm a bit more than halfway through a crocheted blanket that I started last weekend - again, all in the name of stashbusting. Sadly, my hands and wrists are getting really sore from the swelling (okay, the knitting and crocheting may have something to do with it) so I don't know how much longer that part of my nesting compulsion will last. Still have to have DH clean the floors and set up the cosleeper. Overall, I feel like we're in good shape on the home front.

ETA - I forgot to mention that I also gave all of my recently knitted soakers a second lanolizing.