The Nesting Instinct??

Every time I start a conversation about needing to get things done at the house, I always get the question "Is this the nesting instinct kicking in?" I'm honestly not sure what that nesting instinct is all about, but I do realize there are LOTS of things that we want to get done in and around the house and our time to do that is quickly disappearing. Once the kiddo is here, I have a sneaking suspicion that anything not to do with taking care of a baby is going to fall by the wayside. So, that's my motivation.

Mike, as most of you know, is still blissfully unemployed. Well, he's at least not getting a paycheck from anyone. He is however, still working very hard. His to do lists are very long and only seem to get added to. (Ask him, he'll tell you life is no walk in the park for him!) I have been so incredibly lucky to have him home taking care of the "normal" life details that I don't have a ton of energy for (grocery shopping, errands, cooking, cleaning, laundry). He's also been working on an as sundry of "projects" to help get our house in order.

After our renovation, our entire house needed an organization overhaul. We did the basics immediately, closet organizers in the new closets, unpack needed boxes, etc., but so many other more subtle things still remained. Since then, with the arrival of the baby, a snowball effect of other organizational projects have become necessary (and some unnecessary but also adding to the mix).

So, what have we been up to? In the last weeks (maybe months...can't keep track anymore), we got a new TV, which also required a new TV stand. So, there was a furniture shuffle there. The old TV and stand moved to the "lounge" room (so had other furniture to move\sell from that room), finally found a coffee table for the living room we've been searching a long time for (more furniture reshuffles) got a sideboard for the dining room (allowed us to finish unpacking some more boxes and reorganize storage in that room), reconfigured the closet in the lounge to fit more of my craft supplies since my previous organization cart hadn't been working for us (involved trip to container store for plan, removal of old organization system, install of new shelves, getting bins and boxes to organize and label everything, selling off old craft storage cart)
and now we have to find new homes and storage for all of our guest room furniture to make way for the room to be a nursery. So, pretty much a whole house reshuffle.

Those things have happened over the last couple of weeks (except for the guest room furniture reshuffle which is yet to happen). This week, in addition to some of those, we've also picked up our crib (yet to be assembled), bought and had delivered a freezer for our basement, been working with a contractor to get new windows ordered for our lounge and basement (this will complete new windows for the whole house), been working with our old contractor (the one that did the renovation) to finish\fix some still outstanding details, cleaning up the rock garden in our front yard created by the new wall installation (so we can plant grass and not have a mud pit yard all summer), working to get railings for our new front stairs made, had an electrician fix our basement lights (that decided to stop working a few weeks ago), been shopping for a new post lamp for the front yard and interviewed a pediatrician. Of course the normal work (my busiest week of the month this week) and Mike's soccer fills in the gaps. Not to mention, my poor Dad had a little hospital stay last weekend that had us very concerned (he's doing great now!) to add to that mix.

Whew! Tiring just to even try and list. Did I mention I just don't have the energy I used to have? I feel very accomplished with the things we've been ticking off the task list but there are still so many thing left that we want to get done. I hope to post some home pictures of all of our shuffles soon, but many are still in progress so I don't have a true before and after yet. Getting ready for a baby is hard work! Not just the growing it thing but getting the world ready for it.