Nesting is an extreme sport

I basically nested the entire weekend.  I thought I was nesting before with some light cleaning and organizing, but that was just a shadow of what was to come.

I’m so fortunate that my mom came to help me.  She got here Friday afternoon and we began moving sewing & quilting stuff out of the nursery.  I had a lot of stuff in there that didn’t need to be in there.  The room had become a catch-all of sorts – the stuff I didn’t want to deal with found a home there.

If I wasn’t so embarrassed of how the room looked before, I totally would have taken before and after pictures.

Saturday Josh was tasked with transporting all the junk I didn’t need in the nursery to his mom & dad’s house.  Luckily for us, they have a lot of basement space and they don’t mind helping us out with storing our stuff until we get a house big enough for it.  We filled up 2 Pilots and a pick-up with the partial contents of that one small room.

I no longer have a sewing machine here at my house, and that makes me want to cry.

Mom and I used Mr. Clean Magic Erasers – seriously, these little scrubbing pads are incredible, if you haven’t tried them – and cleaned the nursery walls of traces of the older boys.  There were places on the wall we thought we’d have to retouch with paint that came right off with the Magic Erasers.  Mom cleaned windows, I sorted through the stuff that needed to stay.

Then my husband came through with the one project that I’ve insisted be done before the baby gets here.  He shampooed the carpets for me.  Hallelujah!  When we moved into our house 4 1/2 years ago, we started with brand new carpet throughout the house.  We’d never before had them professionally cleaned or shampooed.  Josh has a friend with a Rug Doctor, so we were able to borrow it and do it ourselves.  The carpets look and feel great!  It makes me want to vacuum and vacuum to maintain this clean feeling.

Sunday I worked on getting everything picked up and organized ALL day.  I also did about 7 loads of laundry (maybe more).  I filed paperwork and shredded the statements we didn’t need anymore.  There are still cabinets that I want to go through with fresh eyes, hunting the disposable and reordering.

I want to take a moment to apologize to my husband for being such a crabby patty for at least the first half of the day yesterday.  I was in such a foul mood from not sleeping the night before.  That mood coupled with the urge and need to get everything *in order* before the baby comes, was really not good for anyone in my house, including me.

Josh cooked a fabulous lunch, I don’t know what he calls it, I just hope he makes it again.  He cooked up some hamburger with Mexican spices and tomato and rice and then filled tortilla shells with the mixture and then fried ‘em up.  Delicious!  That put me in a better mood, for sure.  He was very good about asking about what he could do to help and then following through and actually doing whatever it was.

Thanks Josh, and I’m sorry for what I may be putting you through.  It’s possible I’m hormonal and it’s also possible that I was just being a jerk.  I wish I knew the difference.