While I still have roughly eight more weeks to go, I am starting to feel the crunch of getting everything ready for Gwen's big arrival. Technically, I have about four more weeks to get the nursery completed and hospital bags packed because I have told myself that I want the last month of my pregnancy to be as relatively stress-free as possible. Besides, IF Gwen decided that she wasn't waiting for November to make her appearance, that would mean even LESS time to finish preparing. Nesting already? Maybe a little. But I am determined to NOT procrastinate on this matter like most other things in my life in which I do. If you'll remember from my first blog entry I consider myself to be a World Class procrastinator.
I have a very good start to my list and a few things are almost complete. I have already received many clothes in the form of hand-me-downs and shower gifts. The majority of newborn and 0-3 months outfits have been washed and put away, although I still have several "piles" left.
Some of Gwen's laundry
Owl-themed nursery progress
The sun room off our bedroom needs to be turned into a temporary nursery for the first few weeks of Gwen's life when she will be sleeping in her bassinet. In addition, there are a few "projects" around the house I would like to accomplish such as cleaning out the garage and a few storage closests. I will save packing my hospital bags until around week 36 so that will be the last task on my list to be completed.
I know two months is still plenty of time, but like I said, I really want to accomplish everything in a matter of weeks so the last month I can hopefully just be "Zen". How exciting and crazy to think I am in the home stretch!
You are doing great!! You will get it all done...and if you somehow don't, everything will still be wonderful. Many of the things on my do to list before having Jackson never got done, but he still turned out okay. :) Just make sure you and B spend a lot of quality time together because that will definitely be harder to come by once baby Gwen arrives.
ReplyDeleteJennifer it was so great to see you last week. You look awesome:) We painted two murals over Cate's crib. One of Bambi and Thumber and the other is Simba. Dan did a great job and we put molding around them to make them look like they were painted on canvas. I agree that don't worry if it doesn't all get done because you and Bryan should spend a lot of alone time together before she arrives. So exciting!
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