On "Nesting"...

Throughout my pregnancy, many people have asked if the nesting instinct had hit me yet. I thought it caught me early on, when we were in the process of painting the nursery. I cleaned out the closet in the room we would be using for baby (it had been an overflow closet for extra items we didn't use very often), we went through all of our files and purged, and we painted the nursery. In the process of all this, I also felt the urge to paint one wall in our kitchen green just to add some color to our lives. Unfortunately, Nate took the brunt of this one since I wasn't supposed to be painting, but he was a great sport! This was all back in September and October! Was that all?? I didn't think it was too bad, especially for my Type A personality.

Well, it's back and in full force! It all began when we came home from our shower up in Michigan and the nursery floor was full of new baby items. I proceeded to do about 10 loads of baby clothes/blankets, etc. (all the tags indicated different wash and dry cycles...which I'm sure I'll never really pay attention to again!). Then, I went out and got several baskets to help organize the items in the closet. It only took me about 3 days to do all this! After feeling good about the outcome, I am feeling inspired to go through the rest of the closets in our house and do the same. There are about 10 tupperware containers of varying sizes laying in our living room waiting for the process to begin. This weekend is sure gonna be lots of fun! Nate is probably glad he is not here to witness it.

I'm also starting to feel pressure to get the hospital bags packed, the cars cleaned, the car seats installed, and well...who knows what else. Hopefully this will only last the next couple of weeks and I can take some time to rest before baby arrives in 6 short weeks!

Yet again, I am in awe of what pregnancy hormones can do!

On another subject, here are a few more of our favorite photos from a few weeks ago. Enjoy!