Friday, January 27, 2012

Nesting, pacing and preparing or just fed up?

My mom (my WONDERFUL mom!) took a day off from work two weeks ago and came up to help me conquer a household task that I wanted to get done: the playroom! While not everything was done in it that is in the plan (i.e. move my piano from Cape Cod up here and into the playroom), we got a lot done! She was a task master and we sorted toys and cleaned, reorganized toys in our storage compartments and did some minor rearranging (a lot of mental rearranging, like I said...PIANO!) 

She made a comment that I was nesting. Now, this is something I thought would be great to go through while pregnant, especially seeing as I'm not the greatest at cleaning and picking up without lots of motivation. Jon was REALLY looking forward to this stage of pregnancy when I was carrying Joseph, but I don't think it ever really happened. Not like I hear about anyways. In my last month after I had left my job and moved to Medfield, I got baby clothes cleaned and put in the dresser and the nursery set up. But I NEVER was obsessively scrubbing the kitchen floor! I don't think my desire to get the playroom toys organized was really nesting, but I was thinking ahead. I wanted to have it be the toys that he would be playing with throughout the summer at least. I wanted to get it to the point that it would have fewer options (don't worry, Joseph has NO shortage of toys and he has his couple favorites) and be easier to pick up and then find things the next day. These things all point to one less thing to try to do, or get frustrated with (kids and adults) while having a newborn. Before we did this, everything seemed to just get thrown in the big rolling bins under the train table and I noticed that the boys weren't playing with a lot of things simply because they couldn't get to them. That's no fun for them! We still had lots of toys out that Joseph has outgrown and we could never seem to organize them without having at least one "miscellaneous" bin. So my mom came and helped me refocus the toys. By the afternoon I was EXHASTED, but its was great! 90% of the time all he wants to play with is his train set and now he has more tracks available and more room to build on top of the table.

The best part of it all is, Joseph and Matteo play with MORE toys now that there's LESS in the playroom AND they can clean up the toys by themselves and have yet to put something in the wrong place. 

Now...to move the piano....

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