Nesting, nesting, nesting...

In the last week (or two) I've had this urge to nest and get the nursery as ready as possible. I was so glad that all my furniture arrived by now. The glider was the last thing to come in and it's great to finally have a chair in that room to sit in. It gives me time to relax and imagine what it will be like to have our baby girl in here soon. I also feel like doing as much as possible now that I still have energy. I want to enjoy and take it all in peacefully. I'd hate to rush in the end and do it all when I'm so pregnant and exhausted. I also have a break right now with writing because I am waiting for my chair to review my first three chapters.

After my shower in Atlanta, I decided to organize all the clothes I got including the many I had from my sister Noelle. As soon as I started washing them, another big box arrived from my sister Julie with the most adorable baby girls clothes! I was thrilled. I washed everything and began to organize all the clothes in categories. It took me a while to do that there is so much. I can definitely say I have plenty of clothes unit she is at least 6 months old. It's a great feeling and the closet looks so cute with all the clothes hanging from the little pink and white baby hangers! I washed and ironed the bedskirt and crib sheet and put up the crib mobile as well. Brad was out of town last week so I was so anxious to have the glider in the room that I somehow managed to get it out of the car and set it up together. Yeah crazy, 7.5 months pregnant carrying around heavy chairs and putting screws in. I had to laugh myself but I felt so accomplished when I got it done. After everything I have so far was set up, put away, organized, and washed I felt such a relief. The final project was to begin decorating the walls in the room. A while back I purchased this big tree wall decal with birds on it and a squirl. When I got in the mail and read the instructions I thought to myself of course I pick one of the more difficult decals (a tree with lots of branches and tons of leaves) so for the longest time I doubted how I was going to get that thing up on the wall. I thought for sure brad and I would have to do it together and even that would be a challenge. Should I hire someone to do it? So this weekend in my feverish nesting mode I took on the challenge myself. Brad has been incredibly busy these past couple of weeks and is traveling a lot. He's leaving again next week and the week after. Working all weekends, I am also making him edit my massive dissertation. He's over his head. The last thing I want to do is stress him about some tree decal that, let's be honest, could wait to be put up. I still have 69 days left until my due date. But then again, there is this intense need to nest and get things done (and as I so often can't wait to do things, I'll often end up doing them myself) I couldn't wait but to at least try to do it. I watched several videos online on how to best apply one of these decals and felt pretty confident. Needless to say I managed to do it all by myself. Although it took me five hours without a break I got it done. And I actually really enjoyed doing it. I had to cut out different parts of the tree and every single leaf. That took forever. Then they all had to be applied to the wall individually. When I was done I was so happy and Brad was amazed as to how I did it. He was worried in the beginning when he helped me tape up the base of the tree. It was difficult and we were afraid we ruined one of the branches. But we didn't and it turned out beautiful. I'm a big fan of wall decals now. I think there a fairly inexpensive and creative way to decorate a kids room. I also went to buy buy baby in Miami to check out the store and buy a few items. I realized how much I still but hopefully I'll get some nice gifts at my shower and the rest we will have to take care of after. But at least I can say the nursery is coming together and I feel a lot better as I did last week. I was getting a little nervous being almost 30 weeks pregnant and not having the nursery fully set up yet. I'm also getting so excited to soon meet our baby girl. It's really becoming more and more of a reality that we will be parents soon. I've been dreaming a lot about babies and being a mom. I also think more and more about the labour process, imagining what it will be like. I am partly nervous and partly anxious to experience what it will be like.