Hello.... NESTING!

On Tuesday I will hit 30 weeks.... This past Friday it hit me like a ton of bricks that this little baby girl could be here in 8 weeks!!! 8 WEEKS!!! Holy Crap! I am not ready for this at all. At the same time that this bag of bricks hit me, I had the sudden urge to start cleaning and organizing things. For those that know me well... I HATE TO CLEAN. This must have come from all the cleaning I had to do as a child. Maybe I should rephrase that before my Mother calls me wondering which world I'm living in... or lived in when I was a child. I enjoyed cleaning when I was a kid. Aside from being a Christmas Wrapper at the mall, I though being a cleaning lady would be a great job when I got older. Hah! LOL

Well.. I started my organizing frenzie in our ensuite bathroom. We don't have any drawers in the cabinet under the sink, so rather than buying a new cabinet (which would have turned into new flooring, sink, light fixture etc), I bought a nice whicker 4 drawer unit at Jysk! I love it. I have everything in there that I use on a regular basis. This will free up my little bit of counter that I have, and give me room to put my towels under the sink.... rather than in the linen closet... which I'm going to organize for something else! Don'tcha love the way this little project is leading to another, then another, then another. Today I started cleaning the loft. This is where our computer is... and it has become a dumping ground for every piece of paper that enters this house, from Bills, to receipts, to appointment reminders, to books etc. Adrian went out today and bought me a paper shredder to start going through 4 boxes of crap.... we were living in a paper mess... huge amount of clutter. I have been shredding most of the afternoon. Once we get this space organized, we are going to move everything that is in the spare bedroom out, which includes... a single bed, dresser, night stand, 5 rubbermaid containers of clothes that don't fit Anika (Nic, if you read this let me know when I can get some clothes to you to take to the agency... ). Adrian started this room today, but we have storage issues in our house, and right now, until we paint will have to move all this stuff into the loft (once cleaned and organized), so that we can paint. Once the bedroom is painted, we can move the crib, change table, dresser etc into the baby's room, and move the single bed, dresser and night stand down into the basement.

Then comes Anika's room. We need to get her a closet organizer and bookcase. We found both at Home Depot, so that will happen once we get the baby's room done, as one of the dressers from her room is going into the baby's room, which will make room for the bookcase.

I also have to go through crates of clothes. Being the pack rats that we are, I have kept almost everything of Anika's in terms of clothing. I'm going to go through and pick out 4-5 outfits that we really like, the rest will go on consignment, or if they won't take them, hopefully to the adoption agency that our good friends Paul and Nic are using, to be sent to the kids in the Ukraine, or neighboring countries.

Have I mentioned that I only have
29 more days of work left??
LOL...

Anyways.. I must run. I'd like to get a little more shredding done... tomorrow is garbage day!!!

I have a Dr's appointment with my OB on Friday... August 31st. I will be discussing with him my sciatica problems and see what he recommends. I have been seening Dr. Pat the Chiropractor (if you live in Winnipeg and need a really good Chiro, see him.. he's at Chenier Chiropractic). I do feel much better after seeing him, but it only last about 2 days... then I'm back in pain... which makes it hard to sit, stand or walk... then my next Fetal Assessment is September 10th.