Wednesday, June 13, 2012

It's 3 a.m.

I said in my last post that you might not see me for awhile, unless I continued the pattern of waking up at odd times and not being able to sleep. I guess it didn't take long for that to happen. Welcome to the last month of pregnancy, right?

I woke up this morning (EARLY this morning, literally at 3 a.m.) to pee (of course) and found that I REALLY REALLY needed to eat something. Side note: I think Baby Girl is dropping because the last few days, I have been able to eat normal-sized meals without feeling like I am literally going to POP! For a while, I had to eat about 1/4 of what I felt like I WANTED to eat, just so I wouldn't be miserable for the rest of the day/evening.

SO anyway, I came downstairs to get a quick snack, but found myself more awake than ever. For awhile, I amused myself with catching up on other people's blogs, but even that did not put me back to sleep. And now here I sit before you.

In my last entry, I also said that Casey and I (mostly Casey) have been nesting. Since then, Casey has continued his nesting, and I have joined him with a boundless energy that I didn't know I still possessed this late in pregnancy. In fact, up to the point where the nesting instinct grabbed me with vicious talons, I often wondered how women found the energy to nest late in pregnancy, and wondered if I myself might be an exception to the nesting rule. Thankfully, I found out, starting last Saturday, that I do have the nesting instinct and it kicked in with full force.

It started Saturday afternoon after I got home from my third baby shower (I am SO loved by SO many--my thanks goes out to you!). I left the shower with the intention of coming home for my daily nap. However, when I got home, Casey was getting ready to finish up one of  his nesting projects: Project Organize the Basement. This project included building more shelves, ripping out the remaining basement walls (from previous owners), adding to his tool bench, and cleaning/painting the walls of the front section of the basement (under the porch). He did most all of this while I was in New York over Memorial Day weekend, and now just needed to finish putting everything away in its new space. Oh, did I mention that once everything was put away, he left me 4 1/2 shelves for baby stuff and other miscellaneous needs-to-be-removed-from-the-nursery stuff? That's my guy! :)

As he was going down to the basement, Casey asked if I wanted to come down and hang out with him for awhile. I was surprisingly no longer feeling tired or in need of a nap, so I decided to join him downstairs. At first, I just sat on a bucket and chatted with him, but it wasn't long before I pulled out a bin full of old paperwork from college and started to go through it (all with the intention of emptying it so Casey could use it for something he needed a place for). Before I knew it, I had cleaned out the entire bin and had a pile of paper for "shredding." But it didn't stop there. I just kept going. And going. And going.

By 9 p.m., with only a short break for dinner, Casey had finished organizing the basement, and I had begun moving baby stuff from the nursery down to my 4 1/2 empty shelves. Once I had some of the baby stuff moved out, I thought it would be a good idea to take some inventory of stuff we have lots of, and of stuff we still need, so I started organizing the gift bags and boxes in the nursery (up until that point, I had just been bringing stuff home from showers and piling it into the nursery for later assessment).

Before I knew it, I took a pee break and looked at the clock in the bathroom to find that it was 1 A.M! Did I mention that I never got that nap I intended to take when I got home from the shower? By this time, Casey was patiently waiting for me to come to bed. Not only is it most often the other way around (me in bed waiting for Casey), even before I was pregnant, I rarely stayed up until 1 a.m., and since my pregnancy, 10 p.m. is really pushing it.

Since Saturday, the nesting has continued. I have organized and re-organized pieces of my life I never thought I would touch again. I've continued to clean out the nursery (it is the biggest project, by far), but I have also organized parts of the kitchen, my paperwork/billing system, and have even had the urge to organize the documents/folders on my computer!

I was up late again last night (only 11:30 this time) completing pages for the year-in-review scrapbook that I started for Casey our first Christmas. It's only a page a year, but somehow I was still 2 years behind--of 5 total years we have known each other. Not anymore! I'm all caught up.

And now it's now longer 3 a.m. It's in the 4 a.m. range and my eyes are feeling a little gritty. Maybe I can go back to sleep after all. Sorry to bore you with all the details of this nesting mama. G'night (or morning!) :).

P.S. Don't worry. I did get a 3 hour nap on Sunday after my nesting marathon Saturday night. I am so thankful not to be working these last weeks of pregnancy so that I am able to sleep when I need to. I truly am trying (as so many people have advised) to get sleep while I can. :)

1 comment:

  1. Glad I'm not the only pregnant lady up at this odd hour! Sounds like you're making great use of your time before the baby comes! Best of luck.

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