nesting, nutter style

When I was pg with DS, I only had 5 days off work before my waters broke ... nesting was odd - I *had* to redo the household budget, I *had* to realphabetise the bookshelf - twice (once by genre and author, the other time by re/unread and author) and a whole bunch of other things ...

This time?

I have 4 weeks, and have been pottering, sleeping, doing some housework, doing some gardening, getting out a bit, cooking, laundry, paperwork ...

But yesterday and today - I'm just about having to physically restrain myself from going to Spotlight, Lincraft, Cleggs, etc ...

I don't sew. I don't knit. I don't do decoupage. I don't embroider. There is nothing at Spotlight that I would actually know what to do with ... ! There's a few things like canvasses and paints - but I have supplies still at home ... !

And yet, I really, *really* want to go! I want to go and buy fabric ...

What strange nesting urges have you had?

I had to bake rock cakes. Lots and lots of rock cakes. Now I haven't made a batch since the day before I went into labour, 10 months ago. :p

Floors. Had to be spotless. Just the floors, nothing else mattered.

I brought enough toilet paper and washing liquid for 12 pregnant women *just in case*. Still not sure what it was in case of, but I didn't have to buy toilet paper for a really really long time.

I *had* to wash my car! Never mind the house, I had to wash the car. So here I was at some 40 weeks pregnant (stupid being overdue) at one of those wash it yourself places commonly used by taxi drivers - with said taxi drivers looking over their shoulder at me shaking their heads and grinning as I ended up with big wet splotches on my bump trying to get at that stubborn bit of bird poo on the roof :rofl:

haha I love it. go buy some, you can make it a project to learn to make something with it.

only weird one I'm having is ice cube tray refilling. I'm into ice blocks atm and I think ill be wanting them in labour but its gotten extreme. I have 8 ice trays that I'm refilling and saving the ice from up to 5 times a day. my freezer is full of containers filled with ice blocks. I just can't stop!

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I had to clean the skirting boards. The baby just wasn't going to come unless the skirting boards were clean.

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... its gotten extreme. I have 8 ice trays that I'm refilling and saving the ice from up to 5 times a day. my freezer is full of containers filled with ice blocks. I just can't stop!

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:o Does anyone have Dr Phil's number???? :lol: ;)

Perhaps you have a penguin in there??? :p

:rofl: this thread is hilarious! I never had any nesting urges, now I'm thinking I missed out.

I really, really want some red and green tartan cotton ... I have no idea what I would do with it - drape it somewhere maybe ...

And I want to bake a cake. DH and I don't really eat cake - but maybe he could take it to work tomorrow?

And the papers - but they really do need to get done. so I don't think that's silly - I've been making progress there, and I've been putting it off for months.

Right now though, I'm deciding whether I'm going to chop up some pineapple or mango to eat with some cream. lunch!

I had to cook.. And go shopping for groceries every day. It was bad

if your DH doesn't want to take the cake to work, i'd be happy to take it off your hands :lol:

i haven't really had any urges this time - other than tidying the linen cupboard (which was strange for me!).

last time though i HAD to bake...almost every day. now, i do like to bake but this was out of control! and donuts - i HAD to make donuts & did, quite a few times. DP was putting on weight at an alarming rate.

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And I want to bake a cake. DH and I don't really eat cake - but maybe he could take it to work tomorrow?

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or you could bring it to my place on Saturday night :rofl:

I had to clean the car inside and out, I did it on my first day of leave yesterday it had been bugging me for ages. Normally it gets cleaned about every six months

I keep buying washing liquid and cling wrap don't ask me why

And I have an urge to plant flowers but I'm restraining myself as my brown thumb makes it an expensive task. Generally anything outside I'm happy to handball to DH

Haha! This thread is hilarious!

I had to keep the house spotless and all the jobs needed to be up-to-date so that when bubs came there was no backlog. It got to the point where I was doing a load of washing every day (and lets face it, not much was in it with just two adults in the house), including ironing the one or two tops used each day. I hate ironing. I don't actually think I've done it since DD was born. I've handballed the job to DH. Things had to be so up-to-date that even when labour started (and it was only quick) I was cleaning the kitchen and doing washing just to keep up-to-date....

LOL Chody, I am still obsessed with being 'up to date'. I actually have been using the term backlog a lot lately. :o Oh no! lol.

My nesting urges were pretty normal. Normal for nesting anyway. I just *had* to do the 6 months worth of filing bills and papers that had built up. (Thank goodness I did, I now haven't filed since DS was born 10 months ago!! Hellooo Mt Filemore.)
I just *had* to rearrange the lounge. Several times.
I just *had* to bleach the showers. (with a shirt tied around my face like some kind of renegade motorcyclist to avoid the fumes :rofl: )
I became tempted to move house. I think that one was the most hilarious.

Ahh nesting. Good times!

did you get your fabric peanutter?

we moved yesterday and all my ice melted. devastated :( I'm on my second ice tray refill for the day though.

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No, I managed to restrain myself, and the feeling has passed :)

I have however done an awful lot of organising of the papers and the study - it's probably 75% done!

So onward to writing my articles, now.

Moo - I was obsessed with cooking, vac sealing and freezing meals to fill up my brand new chest freezer, I even blanched my own vegetables...couldn't get the broccoli smell out of the house for days! I also couldn't stop buying groceries and took over our linen cupboard to store it all in. But that was great as I didn't have to buy toilet paper or washing detergent for over 12 months! I also had overwhelming urges to squirrel away cash 'just in case' lol

Buster - house had to be immaculate, I hired a weekly house cleaner. Got our not that old carpets drycleaned, as well as our couches. I got my car detailed which took the place the entire day to do but looked awesome...for about a day :lol: I couldn't stop buying things for Moo - I ended up with sooo much stuff for him such as cars, books, crafty things, arty stuff from Spotlight, DVDs...I had it all packed away for after the baby came, no idea what for but I couldn't stop! It has all come in handy as I've been able to give him little things when I need some time or space for his little brother. Oh and I also just HAD to have this particular xmas tree from Target. Cracked it in our local store when they didn't have any in stock, made my hubby phone around to find one and marched in to buy it...it's massive but looks awesome!

With DS? The pantry HAD to be completely cleaned and organised

With DD? The ensuite cupboard HAD to be sorted, organised and ready for when she arrived home

this thread is hilarious!! mine are pretty mundane, i reorganised the kitchen cupboards twice in the 3rd trimester with DS and i also ate frozen raspberries with black and gold vanilla icecream (no other brand was ok, to the point of DH having to return one tub!!) every night and sometimes for lunch :redface: i also rearranged the lougeroom and nursery multiple times and washed and ironed everything i could get my hands on (my biggest bout of ironing brought on a haemorage at 31wks), a week before DS came i HAD to sort thru all my makeup and creams etc (of which i have far too many) and cull the ones i wasnt using/didnt want and ended up throwing out heaps of stuff i regretted later.

I scrubbed the outside of my kitchen cupboards and put all our CDs on iTunes. The CDs were an awesome way to rest and wait for baby. DD was born the next day so if I get ghat urge this time, I'll know to be ready!

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haha I love it. go buy some, you can make it a project to learn to make something with it.

only weird one I'm having is ice cube tray refilling. I'm into ice blocks atm and I think ill be wanting them in labour but its gotten extreme. I have 8 ice trays that I'm refilling and saving the ice from up to 5 times a day. my freezer is full of containers filled with ice blocks. I just can't stop!

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DH got an ice machine for his birthday last week... it makes 18kg of ice a day :-), which is fantastic for ice crunching

I HAD to have the house fumigated and finish knitting a baby blanket. I let the pest man in at 11:00, went out and took my knitting with me. I finished the blanket at about 2:30 and DD was born just before 4:54!
But that must be my personality type - I am always the same...always get things done just in the nick of time!

I've got all of our photos up to date, in the albums, and in frames which are (just now) up on the walls.

I've gone through all of our paperwork, and it's all in order now.

I've started getting the garden in order ...

Pantry might be next on my list... but I'll sleep on it ...

For Ellen (who didn't make it home to enjoy it) I had to totally remodel the stables.....new yards were built and a whole new verandah. I also got a new room built on the back of the house including a bike storage space for hubby push bikes so the garage was organised and not full of bikes.
For DS I had to have heaps of meals cooked and frozen and the bathroom and kitchen spotless and I had to pack and re-pack my hospital bag over and over. I also had to have the garage, feed shed and stables de-spiderwebbed and tidy spotless and organised! I also did load of fencing during my 2nd pregnancy. I guess that's nesting on a sort of farmy scale!

With ds I nested the whole pregnancy. Constantly rearranged the nursery! Changed the lounge room around the day I went in to be induced....in fact it was the last thing I did before leaving lol. At about 32weeks I scrubbed our verandah with an old rag....wanted to do the celing however I realised that was impractical and impossible not to get in my face. Constantly cleaned out the car. Rearranged our wardrobes (as in the clothes in them) n got rid of huge garbage bags of clothes.

This pregnancy ive already done the wardrobe again and the linen cupboard. Had them done at about 6weeks lol.

With one of my miscarriages, I knew I was pregnancy because I *really* wanted to change the lounge room around again hehe!