Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Nesting?

Still no baby. Due date is only 5 days away. I honestly never thought I'd make it this far. Who knows, this baby may be late.

Today, however, I am totally, totally nesting. I started my day with a walk to the grocery store with Ava. Then for some reason, I just got motivated to get cleaning/nesting. Here's what I've done so far today:

  • Put together dinner in the slow cooker so that we will have a nice dinner all ready
  • Vacuumed the entire downstairs
  • Cleaned up Ava's toys in the living room (although, it's probably all torn up again by now!)
  • Steam cleaned the carpet in the foyer
  • Cleaned the kitchen
  • Ran the dishwasher
  • Washed a load of kitchen towels

I decided to sit for a minute, but I hope to accomplish the following after lunch:

  • Mop the dining room & laundry room
  • Clean the bathroom
  • Vacuum the entire upstairs
  • Clean Ava's room
  • Bake an apple pie so that we can use up all the apples that the neighbor keeps giving us

Even if I don't get to the second half of my list, I'm still pretty proud of everything I've done so far. I haven't done this much cleaning in weeks, let alone one morning.

On the baby front, I'm loving all the suggestions people are giving me to try to get labor going. I seriously think I should write a book! My mom called me this morning to tell me that her co-workers say that I should jump rope, then go scrub the floors on my hands & knees. I just have to laugh at it all. We have already tried so many things that I've just decided to let it go & this little one will come when she's good & ready.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

yep, i don't believe in any food jump-starting labor. Oh well, sometimes it's worth a try! Great job getting all that done! Love you!!

Anonymous said...

that was me...Min :)

Lisanne said...

Oh yeah ~ so many suggestions. Someone told me to go eat eggplant Parmesan! hehe :) LOL about the nesting ~ you know, I had a BURST of energy on my due date with Meri. Felt like NOTHING was going to happen. Went into labor and had her that night! :)

Hillary said...

Hang in there. Once your baby is in your arms you'll feel it was all worth it. Didn't someone once say it is always the darkest before the dawn?

I love nesting. It's a great feeling to have a few things off your list before the baby comes. And believe me you'll appreciate having them done when you get home from the hospital.