What was your dumbest nesting idea?

[Greaseball]

I decided that the aluminum window frames in the baby's room were absolutely filthy and set on a mission to clean them. They had that oxidation that is impossible to remove, but I was convinced I could remove it. I bought all these metal polishes and the salespeople warned me I'd never remove that stuff, but I didn't believe them. Of course they were right. :irked:

So when I couldn't scrub the frames, I bought a bunch of iridescent paper and poster paints and glued strips of paper to parts of the frames and then painted the rest. Some were pink, some blue, and some yellow. I also cut out some hearts out of these thin sheets of wax and stuck them on the windows on some spots where it was really dirty outside and I wouldn't have been able to reach it to clean.

Then I decided the stroller was dirty. I was practically crying, I was so upset about this. I told dh that he needed to take it apart and scrub it or I was going to run out and buy a new one, because I sure wasn't going to use a dirty stroller for this baby! He scrubbed the wheels and removed all the cloth and machine washed it. :LOL

Now of course I don't even notice the condition of the windows or the stroller. Poor dh!

So, what other dumb ideas were there?

[Moon Faerie]

I decided that the second bathroom needed to be redone for the baby. We NEVER use it. Ben gets his baths with me in the garden tub, and he's not gonna be potty training anytime soon. The worst part is that we actually moved in the house to sleep and everything only 3 weeks before he was born. I got everything put away by some miracle, but I didn't finish the bathroom. Well, he'll be 1 in a week, and it's still not done!

[tug]

i think i'm in the middle of it right now. i'm convinced that i need to go $4000 into debt to buy a new couch and dining set b/c one of the chairs in the dining set is broken (it could be dangerous says my crazy head). i'm not sure what the dining chair being broken has to do with the couch....but the couch is old and rippy.

but, i have to say, i love yours greaseball. painting the aluminum window frames. :laugh:

[alaskanteach]

I chopped up my lilac bush. It gets really tall (tree like) and I had not bothered to trim in a couple of years (like I should and usually, do). Anyway, sometime last winter, a moose got tangled in the branches and broke one off. So, a few weeks ago, I took the branch trimmers and started clipping. It actually required me to climb around in the bush and tree climb as it were... Dh kept telling me to get down, etc. Anyway, by the time I was done, it was probably 6 feet tall at the biggest part, and I cut away probably 6 feet all over. Not a leaf left in sight on the bush. I week later, one of neighbors asked me what happened to it. I couldn't think of a thing to say.

[Threefold]

I tie-dyed at home alone with my 3 yo. . .

[Kristeen]

Well, I guess so far it would be that I need to have in my posession every single item I'll need for the baby this far in advance. I starting collecting stuff right away and now I have almost all the clothes and stuff I'll need. The only things left to buy are the carseat, stroller, and more CD's. My one friend commented that they'll be nothing left for anyone to buy me as a shower present!

[nym]

Yea Kris... Geez!

My last one I didn't do too much. I was soo hot and miserable that I laid on the couch for 2 months it seemed.

I doubt I will do much nesting with this one either. I'm kinda lazy you know!

[rad]

I decided the kitchen had to be redone. Well it took alot longer then planned. The old cabinets had to be ripped out, then the old plaster had to all be taken out (most of it had come out witht he cabinets). Once that was done, we decided the electrical had to be redone and we might as well put insulation in while we're at it. So the week before my due date the guy comes to drywall it. DH puts the last coat of paint on the wall abotu an hour before my water breaks. Then the day after K was born the guy comes to install our cabinets. Ends up we had to use a crappy little burner and a toaster oven to cook our meals my whole darn pg. And while I loved having a new kitchen afterwards, it really could have waited until after DS was here.

[sofiabugmom]

One morning when I was about six months along, I noticed I had lots of leftover baby-weight yarn in pastel colors. Then it hit me like a freight train ... "My baby's gonna need booties!"

So what did I do ... I gathered all the yarn and my size F hook, sat on the couch and spent the rest of the day making **eight pairs** of baby booties. For one kid.

DH got home as I was finishing bootie #16. He saw the other 15 scattered on the coffee table and calmly asked me, "Honey, are we nesting today?" I said frantically, "But the baby's gonna need booties!!" He just shook his head, mumbled something and went on upstairs.

And, of course, DD never kept a pair of socks on her feet for more than 30 seconds and still doesn't ... sigh.

Best,

JA

[mom2amelia]

Oh, the booties have me just chuckling outloud here at work.

I just have the ideas, but don't actually make any process with them, but I have a good story.

Dh's cousin did an addition to her house- since she was pregnant with her second set of twins. Really her husband did the addition- but he did it himself. The twins came early, and, from what I understand, there was a basically a hole in the side of the house when the newest boys were born, and the dad spent a lot of time finishing up the work with the help of friends while the mom was boarding at the hospital until the babies were ready to come home. I also think that once they were released from the hospital they went to stay at a friend's house instead of their own house.

[gottaknit]

The other night I panicked thinking the first frost would come early and ruin my garden. I made DH come outside with me and pick all the tomatoes, corn, and squash by flashlight. I am now up to my neck in veggies and I MUST can, dry, or freeze them all NOW.

I also went to the grocery store for "a few things" and came back after spending almost $150 on food. I kept thinking I needed to buy five extra of everything to "stock up" in case I go into labor before I make it back to the store. Because we would starve to death before DH figured out how to buy food, I guess. :eyesroll Good thing we have 12 boxes of cereal!

[annakiss]

I decided to redo my sister's bedroom. We were staying and birthing at my mom's house, and my little sisters had both been bugging me about painting their rooms forever (I guess they bug me because they know my parents will never get around to it). So we started on Natalies bedroom. We took all the furniture out, spackled, sanded, removed the carpet, finished the drywall off that was around the chimney from when I think I was about 13 (so 10 years prior), painted the walls and floor, and tried to install a ceiling fan. For some reason everything in my parents' house is way more complicated than it needs to be, so the prep work is agonizing and things like cieling fans which I see installed in minutes on Trading Spaces all the time remain unfinished two years later due to the electrical box coming loose from the boards that hold it in the attic and the thing not fitting flush like it's supposed to (this involved hacking out chunks of plaster from around it). We kept thinking that the room wouldn't get done before I went into labor, but alas we got the room done, handmade curtains and all. We even went on a shopping trip for a new trash can and rug and sheets and a lamp. We have yet to touch my other sister's bedroom. Maybe that will happen with this pregnancy. :)

[Cloverlove]

I decided we needed to clean the carpets *before* the homebirth.

[tug]

cloverlove: :rotflmao

with ds, i decided that we had to de-lead and repaint his bedroom. dh spent months and months stripping woodwork. when that was done, we took the window sashes (old house, big double-hung windows) and doors. at 8 mos. preg, i was reglazing window sashes (putting caulk-like stuff to hold the glass to the wood) and varnishing them. the night i went into labor, i was rushing around carrying each of the four sashes to my work bench to varnish...i kept wondering why my back hurt...(i ended up going by bus to the hospital for what turned out to be labor the next morning from work).

we had to hire someone to finish painting the room. :)

[momsgotmilk4two]

I just spent over $700 on cloth diapers and put some of that on a cc:bag: That is all of what I will need in both small and medium sizes. I also keep thinking of other things to buy and am tempted to buy them all NOW when I really have another two months to save and buy things slowly.

When I was in labor with my first baby I decided I didn't want to come home to a dirty house so I scrubbed the bathrooms and did laundry, changed the sheets, etc. Dh helped of course, but I really wanted to be involved in doing it all:LOL As if the baby was going to know that he was being brought into a dirty house :eyesroll My second baby, I wised up and let my mil do the cleaning ;)

[hunnybumm]

I am not pregnant now (just started TTC) but I did a few wierd nesting things and some pretty basic nesting things.

--I swept and mopped all the hard floors about 3 times a week. None of that using a mop crap either, it had to be on hands and kneeds mopping. With all my doors open, so people were probably walking by thinking "That poor pregnant woman is on her hands and knees mopping!"

--I took bleach to the bath room, I couldn't get the floors, tub, etc clean enough. And since bleach shouldn't be inhaled I did it as fast as I could, but it smelled so strong that I couldn't use the restroom (well was afraid to). Imagine a woman who is 8 months not being able to use the bathroom for 5 hours.

--At 8 months I decided that the couch that was in our computer room HAD to be moved into the living room. I got this urge and I couldn't sleep, or eat, or concentrate. The couch was calling my name. So I try and move this couch (love seat) through the door, which is too small. So I just start pushing. We still have dents in our walls. Oh and this was at 3 am while my DH was at work. He came home and was so mad that I hadn't waited for him. I also rearraged the whole living room (a couch with a sleeper, entertainment center, tv, etc) around this love seat.

My mom flew in the day I went into labor and she just kept saying "I can't believe how clean your house is." My room was always a mess when I was living at home.

[BoobyJuice]

:LOL, you're cracking me up! I've honestly never gotten a nesting instinct although I've always wondered what it would be like. I'm a slob by nature and have to make myself get off the couch when pregnant to clean. I can't imagine going to the lengths some of you have.

This time I do have one crazy obsession. I've decided our car is too small; we are going to have 3 in car seats. With 6 weeks to go, I want a new car :eyesroll When I have insomnia I stay up researching car safety online. hmm, somehow I think I'd get further scrubbing the floors.

[carlasher]

Hmmm, buying or making a slipcover for your couch will do it!

LOL, I dont know about $4000 for anything let alone furniture. :love I am a yardsale, estate sale, craigslist, etc type of person. I never buy anything new. Though nothing matches, I developed a shabby chic/Mederiterian (sp) country theme!

(I wonder what will it be when my time comes. :nut )

i think i'm in the middle of it right now. i'm convinced that i need to go $4000 into debt to buy a new couch and dining set b/c one of the chairs in the dining set is broken (it could be dangerous says my crazy head). i'm not sure what the dining chair being broken has to do with the couch....but the couch is old and rippy.

but, i have to say, i love yours greaseball. painting the aluminum window frames. :laugh:

[annakiss]

I have to add the story of a friend. Her and her husband had bought an older home and the day after her baby shower (at 34 weeks) she went on a big nesting kick. They ran errands all over town getting stuff for the house. Then later they had all the windows out of the frames to clean them. So there's windows in all the rooms and dark clouds start to roll in. Thunder starts sounding and - her water breaks all over the floor. So they rush off to the hospital, not getting nearly all the windows back in. They get into the room and she's standing up, working through the contractions. A nurse comes in and has some tray with all these instruments on it - scissors and what not for episiotomies and cutting the cord. My friend stops where she is, squats and pushes - three times and the nurse knocks this tray over in trying to get her to stop - scissors and sharp things go flying all over the floor and the baby falls right out onto the floor, sliding between her legs behind her. She looks down, the nurse is horrified, simply in shock, and she pulls the baby back to her with his cord and picks him up and sits down. TRUE STORY! :)

[spsmom]

when i was pregnant with my ds, my mom told me she always knew the baby would be coming in the next few days when she got the sudden urge to clean, clean, clean. (she has 4 children) and it happened with all 4!

it was a sunday night before my ds was born (a week and a half before due date) and i got this wild hair and started cleaning our room getting ready for the baby.

but when i stripped the bed and vacuumed the quilted pillowtop mattress (getting in all the little nooks and crannies), i stopped myself for a minute and realized how obsessed i was being...

my water broke 2 days later!

[Pixi]

I had to turn the office into a guest/office/baby stuff room. Sold the couch that was in there & bought a new bed. Really, that will come in handy, since my mom does visit often.

Silliest thing, this pregnancy, was *needing* our garage to be finished on the inside. Insulation & drywall put up. Why, I just don't know, but dh was happy to do it & make our garage cooler.

[Greaseball]

My main reason for deciding not to have my older child at the birth was that I thought she would mess up the house and that I would need it to be totally clean for me to be comfortable. :LOL

Like I was going to be paying attention to the house! :laugh:

[Helen White]

Okay, I wasn't going to reply to this one, because although I've been obviously "nesting," trying to get everything clean and ready, I figured it was all just normal stuff. Cleaning, organization, laundry, filing. I got a LOT done yesterday (big relief, as I've been anxious about being ready), and I'm almost done today, I think. Baby clothes are all washed and hung up, cloth diapers organized in little baskets. It's cute.

So DH wants me to spend a little time with him (he has the day off), and I tell him as soon as I finish the last thing--organizing my desk. So I get off the laptop and head in to the computer room to finish up, and go, "oh, yeah, I guess that's a little unnecessary." I've gathered and set in the middle of the floor all the pens, markers, pencils, highlighters, etc. in our possession, along with rubber bands and the various cups we store them in, and am all set up to sort them out by type and function and distribute them evenly throughout the house. I suppose that is a little silly. LOL!

[mainemom]

I made 136 cheese blintzes to freeze "for later". We were eating them for the whole first year after ds was born. We had a homebirth; my water broke at 2:30 a.m. and I got up to change the sheets. I woke my husband up saying, "get up and start the crockpot and scrub the bathtub one more time!" (He did it, too, despite the fact that our ds wasn't born for another 11 hours!) Wonder what I'll get up to this time around?

[Soogie]

the craziest nesting thing?!...

Paste waxing my hardwood floors by hand! I was 39 weeks pg with #1 when I decided that the floors in the living room and the nursery needed to be waxed and buffed. It took me 8 hours, my back was killing me, my knees were all swollen and red, but d@mn my floors looked good!!

With #2, the craziest thing was taking down all the curtains and blinds in the entire house and washing everything. It could've been nesting or intensive spring cleaning!

Now with #3 just weeks away from arriving, I'm *waiting* for the nesting instinct to kick. So far, nada. My house is a mess and certainly not ready for baby. But there is little energy left in the day after chasing 2 toddlers to nest.

[Teensy]

When I was about 7 1/2 months pregnant with #1, I bought sheets of plywood, hauled them up into the attic, and nailed them down so we'd have additional storage so I could clean out the spare room and turn it into a nursery. Couldn't wait until the weekend and let DH do it. It had to be done that day.

[zonapellucida]

LMAO--my nesting hasn't included anything more than being able to eat off my floor

edit: After reading through the posts I am far worse than I thought. I have made my own cloth diapers, washed all the windows, organized all my children's drawers, fisnished the layette, painted, nailed, gardened and decide to homeschool.

[MountainLovinMama]

Oh my, I love this thread! Hilarious!

When I was 7 1/2 months pregnant with my first, we purchased and moved into our very first home. Needless to say, I nested like crazy, scrubbing, unpacking, organizing, etc. We are book lovers - no "entertainment center", just floor to ceiling bookshelves, jam-packed with books. One of the more ludricrous things I did was to move ALL of our books from the garage upstairs to the big open room that is our main living space - and shelve them all according to genre. I knew I shouldn't try to carry umpteen HEAVY boxes full of books up the stairs...so I just took books OUT of the boxes and carried them up by the armload, hour after hour. Dh was incredulous - and a bit concerned about my sanity - when he got home. I also moved our bureaus from the garage into the bedroom. Good thing we don't have a piano or pool table.

Now I am 29 weeks - and the nesting is kicking in. I have a to-do list that includes things like "cobwebs". Last weekend I cleaned the car - inside and out - scrubbed, vaccuumed, windexed, rainex-ed, armorall-ed, etc....and then left the key in the ignition with the radio and who knows what else running. When I went to drive it two days later, the battery was completely dead!

[Lucysmama]

With this pregnancy, it has been bad...

First I got the bright idea that we should give our landlords notice on moving out, and buy a house instead. So, we had to move at 35 weeks preggo. Then, right as we were about to move, our house fell thru and we had to scramble to find something temporary. Now we have to move again when I am a few weeks post-partum. :duh Brilliant idea, huh??? That was definitely the "dumbest" nesting idea.

Then came the shopping, around 36 weeks. I went to every consignment/resale shop within a 30 mile radius because I discovered that a box of our onesies and jammies was ruined. There are about 8 or 9 shops and I drove around and went to them ALL!!! I brought everything home, washed it twice, and stacked it neatly in baskets and felt MUCH better.

Last week was excessive grocey-buying. I wanted to stock up on things we go thru quickly like cereal, toilet paper, pasta, etc.

This week's obsession is scrubbing. Counters, tables, bathtub, etc...I went thru an entire jumbo box of baking soda (for cleaning) in 5 days.

[misfit]

Oh yeah. Nesting. Well with my first, I reorganized my whole filing system and sewed all his clothes and bedding. (I was poor, and it was a lot harder to find 100% cotton ten years ago.) I even bought a used serger just for that purpose.

I also obsess with having a beautiful room to birth in. I had my first at my parents' and the room I was staying in had no doors on the closet. I insisted that my dad finish the closet doors. I couldn't stand the idea of being in labor and having to stare at all that stuff in the closet.

So with #2, in my own tacky apartment with my own cheap furniture I was determined to somehow make my room beautiful. I made tablecloths for the nightstands, hung dried flowers on the walls, and arranged all the birth supplies artistically in straw baskets. I can still remember watching through glazed eyes as the midwife and my mother franticly searched my lovely array of straw baskets trying to find the one I'd put the receiving blankets in.

[nikirj]

With my second - At 36 weeks, despite having gone into preterm labor at 33 weeks, I weilded a pick-axe for four hours to get a stubborn tree stump out of our patio border. Yes, me, not me directing DH (who was there, btw, but was being "wimpy" - my words - with the pick-axe). It was dumb. Very dumb. I didn't go into labor because of it (my 33-week scare was ended with a single dose of terbutaline, and never recurred) but I did have a bunch of ligament and muscle pain the next day. DH knew better than to try to intervene, but he did absolutely insist I drink all the water he brought me. You'd think I'd let my (6'3", 260-lb, very strong) DH do this kind of thing - but I was nesting. Logic was gone.

This was just the worst of many things. Things like stacking dressers one atop the other (we had a very small one-bedroom apartment) or carrying bookshelves from room-to-room while very pregnant also occurred regularly.

In my defense, pregnancy-related insanity must be passed genetically in my family, and (very luckily for me) so is the ability to stay in relatively good fitness-type health during pregnancy. My mom ran a marathon at 6 months pregnant - it was her worst time ever, but she did it. The negative effect? Blisters on her feet. I saw her at the end, she wasn't even looking flushed.

Other insane things I've done?

I painted the ceiling of the room my family stayed in at my parents' house (we lived with them for 6 months before and after DD was born) a light blue and stood atop a ladder hand-sponging 'clouds' into the 12-foot-ceiling...at 38 weeks pregnant.

I taught my sister the butterfly stroke (swimming)...by example...at 25 weeks. I hadn't done the butterfly stroke in a year. My mom told me it looked perfect :eyesroll

Goodness only knows what I'll get myself into this time. So far I've just been obsessed about getting couches into the living room (that accomplished, I'm busy obsessing about re-covering them).

[jessikate]

I decided that our couch cushions needed to have the foam replaced about three days after my due date with my DD. I called someone billing themselves as a "mobile upholstery" shop, figuring he'd come out and replace it in my home. He had to take them in and I didn't get them back until DD was about 4 days old. :eyesroll I guess it's a good thing I birthed DD in the hospital - where would everyone have sat if we'd had a homebirth? :LOL

Who knows what weird things I'll do this time...

[mum2tori]

Let's see...

With DD (pregnancy #1) I was put on "bedrest" at 31 weeks. I had been in Dallas for a job, DH was still in Houston because of his job. I needed to move from Dallas to back Houston. Once I was back in Houston, I had to organize the house. He had moved everything that didn't have a specific place into the "spare" bedroom (on the SECOND floor) which was of course going to be the nursery... NOT the empty front living room... no that would have been too easy. After asking him to empty that room for 2 weeks... I finally did it. 35+ weeks pregnancy and most of it was books. 40+ pound boxes of books. Probably about 75+ boxes, yes we have a lot of books... down a flight of stairs. I rearranged the bookshelves downstairs and organized all the books by genre and/or author... doesn't everyone do that?? :o :o Too many years managing bookstores. :LOL :LOL I then had to paint all the shelves for the nursery (it was February and I had to do it IN the room with the windows open because there wasn't any room in the garage!), refinish the sourdough bin which was going to be the changing table, drag DH to go buy a crib. Assemble said crib. :eyesroll Constantly nag DH to finish sanding and painting the dresser that he was determined HE was going to do... he FINALLY finished it 3 weeks AFTER she was born. :irked: :irked: Repaint the futon couch which was going to go into the nursery. (that really was a life-saver having that in there, DH slept on it with DD on his chest many a night and nap). I also had to re-organize the entire kitchen. DH had just stuffed dishes and stuff into cabinets. And I vaccumed like crazy.

With DS (pregnancy #2) I didn't nest as much. :LOL Too tired chasing a toddler. :LOL I did a bunch of little sewing projects a few weeks before I was due. Started a blanket before DS was born... never finished it. Just started finishing it up this week, maybe it will be done by the time Radish is here. :LOL :LOL I cleaned a lot but nothing really extreme. More like constantly picked up DD's toys and kept pitching DH's stuff that he left laying around (couldn't put them away himself) into his office room. :LOL Okay I really pushed DH to get the standup freezer for the garage so I could do a lot of cooking and freezing before DS was born so we would have prep-ed meals. He kind of :eyesroll his eyes while I was doing all the cooking but it did make it much easier after DS was born. Especially when everyone (both mothers) decided they weren't going to help or come over like they had said they would. :irked: :irked:

This pregnancy (#3) with DS#2, I obsessed about the carseat situation for a while. :W :W We have a LandRover Discovery (love my truck), well three carseats don't fit across the backseat. So we needed to get the third row seating. DH didn't want them when we originally got the truck... :eyesroll :eyesroll So he had to try to find a set. They are obscenely priced from the dealer, so he was trying to find a set through a salvage yard or from another Disco owner. He found a set months ago but kept dragging his feet... the guy sold them to someone else. :bang :bang He decided that it wasn't a HUGE priority because I wouldn't be going anywhere with all three kids by myself for a while after #3 was born. :eyesroll Then about 2 months ago... it looked like he might get deployed for 18 MONTHS right when Radish was due. Okay, I MIGHT need to go somewhere with all three kids by myself then huh?? So I started really nagging him about the seats... he finally found another set. He installed them last week. So now that pressure is off. :LOL Three weeks ago, our freezer died (yes that new one we bought just last year) for the SECOND time. :bang :bang So I've lost the small amount of prep-ed meals that I had cooked. Luckily I was really planning on doing the majority of the cooking the week when the freezer died. They still haven't come out and fixed the freezer yet, maybe because DH keeps blowing off calling them. :bang :bang I finally told him hey its his concern. He's the one who's going to have to do all the cooking after the baby's born. :W :W :W

I've been trying to get the house clean before Radish is born. DH is the worst. He walks in the door and just 'yard sales' his stuff everywhere. And I've been trying to get him to have HIS stuff ready for when Radish is born. Stuff like HIS clothes, install the infant carseat, put the bags in the truck, get the laptop dial-up ready for at the hospital... the camera stuff... things like that. :rolleyes :rolleyes He keeps thinking if he says the baby shouldn't be born today because... he isn't going to be. :eyesroll :eyesroll :eyesroll You'd think by the third he would have learned by now...

If you ask DH... he'd say I'm nesting but he'd also say I do this periodically anyways even when I'm not pregnant. :LOL I go through spurts of wanting to get stuff DONE. Usually it's stuff that has been sitting there for months waiting to get done so I just finally do it.

For some reason my DH's "Honey Do" list turns into my list. :eyesroll :eyesroll :eyesroll

[MonkeyPrincess]

These stories are great :thumb I'm going to have my dh read this thread so he can see it's not just me! I tried to explain to him the intensity of this instinct, but he just didn't get it...

Well, I decided all the little things around the house that we've been putting off needed to get done before the baby comes, so my dh took a week off from work and we painted our room, my dd's room (plus hang up the chair rail), my ds's room, the laundry room and we were going to repaint the bathroom, but I chickened out on the color. We replaced broken screens, caulked the linoleum floor on the porch, repaired the broken railings on the banister, and took the air conditioners out of the windows. We still have to touch up (paint) some spots in some of the other rooms, and put up crown molding in my oldests room.

My uncle is coming next weekend to put new carpet in the kids rooms, and hopefully, sometime before the baby comes he'll be here to replace our crappy old floor with tile through the kitchen, laundry room and downstairs bath.

I am now going crazy cleaning everything! I did the ceiling fans and miniblinds throughout the house and scrubbed all the furniture in the living and dining rooms. I need to wash the woodwork, kitchen cabinets and scrub the bathrooms. Oh, and finish the wallpaper in the powder room!

I went through every piece of clothing in the house and organized it into bins. Now I just have to get the baby stuff washed and put away. I will place an order for a few more cd's and covers, plus my birth supplies this week. My plan is to have everything done for the house before my mw's first homevisit (which is Oct. 10th). Then I can concentrate on getting the baby's stuff in order and doing all the fun stuff...like my belly cast and pregnancy pictures, making Tshirts, taking the kids to build a bear to make the baby's first bear, in addition to all our usual fall activities, and my dh is going to build a fort/tree house with the kids, too!

Oops, I forgot...I've been freezing meals for after the baby's born, but we keep eating them! So I need to work on making more :eyesroll

[jecaly]

ooh, ooh, i have one!

i am right now knitting leg warmers for my yet-to-be-born babe.

cause, you know, baby's legs get, um, cold?

*j

[liawbh]

This thread cracks me up:LOL I'm reading along thinking I'm too early, Haven't had any urges yet, then I remember last weekend-- Oh yeah, I cleaned my walk-in closet and put my dresser in there, and put all my skinny summer clothes in a box! Yikes, wonder what I'll be like at 30+ weeks!

With ds, I went crazy with our room, and ended up giving almost all my winter clothes away (In July) because "they were too hot or too skinny!" :blush ! Somehow I forgot that winter would come, and pregnancy is temporary!! :eyesroll