Our Musicalhouse: Nesting?

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Nesting?

I've always heard about nesting & was really looking forward to suddenly becoming a super-productive, organized, and laundry-loving wonder woman. I guess that's not quite how it works...today marks the T minus 2 month point which means I'm at 31 weeks & have started counting down instead of counting up! I keep going back and forth between "I can't wait!", and "Wow, this is going by really fast!" I don't know if the nesting thing has really kicked in or not, but here are the 'signs' I've been displaying:

Shopping...mostly for baby-related stuff ;o)
Setting up the baby room - I think we're about 90% ready!
Cooking - this may just be a miracle because I never cook! In the last week I've made 3 separate meals & frozen the leftovers so they will be super-easy to heat up in a time of need!
Cleaning...well, the house is clean, but did I get it that way all by myself? I'll never tell! I am working hard to maintain it though!
Organizing - I haven't been organizing stuff so much, but organizing the activities & such I'm involved in. This week I'm focusing on getting all my church stuff in order & making sure the different things I do there will be covered when I'm out with Jack.

Other stuff we've been up to:

Spending time with family - John's whole family was in town & we had fun watching movies, swimming, going to the museum, eating, and hanging out with them.
Staring at my belly - Jack is moving soooooooo much! Some days it's almost non-stop & he is spending more and more time pushing on my lowest right rib. That part's not so fun, but watching him move around sure is entertaining!
Reading together - every once in a while John & I find a book we both like & read it aloud together just for fun. It's great for car rides, or for hanging out with the TV turned off. Right now we're reading The Hunger Games. It's a reread for me because the final book of the series is about to come out (I like to read the previous books again before reading a new one in a series), but it's new to John.
Spending more time with God - We're both reading Too Busy Not to Pray by Bill Hybels with the church band & I really like it so far. I also just started Living Free by Beth Moore with a group of wonderful Ladies at our church. It has given me more structure & motivation to spend daily time with the Lord & for that I am so grateful!

1 comment:

Kelli said...: I love watching your belly grow, I hope to catch it move some time soon, too!; July 21, 2010 at 5:32 PM

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Verses from Philippians

1:21: For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
2:1-11: If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
2:14-15: Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe.
3:7-8: But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ.
3:12-14:Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.