Damn nesting urge
I used to laugh when I read blogs by women who were about to give birth and frantically ran around cleaning their houses. "Please," I thought. "That will never be me."
As with so many things, I spoke too soon. I still have no desire to get down on hands and knees and scrub the bathroom floor, but I have a strong urge to knit goods for E (I started a sweater for him today, it is very petite and cute) and clear out tons of junk. Mindful of the childbirth teacher's warning to the husbands ("Your wives will give all your stuff to Goodwill!"), I am concentrating on getting rid of my own junk.
I'm performing a cookbook purge, having realized that I only make a few recipes over and over, while other ones will never be tried. My SIL will be the lucky recipient of three cookbooks, and the rest? Who knows. The laundry room? The dump? Some of them are freakin' heavy, too.
In fact, I have a systematic urge to go through every room in the house and throw out whatever I don't use. The urge is powerful and primal, almost like adolescent hormones. I want to get a crib earlier than D does, too. And I'm going to do it! It's bookmarked at target.com, and come late April, I'm ordering it. So there.
As with so many things, I spoke too soon. I still have no desire to get down on hands and knees and scrub the bathroom floor, but I have a strong urge to knit goods for E (I started a sweater for him today, it is very petite and cute) and clear out tons of junk. Mindful of the childbirth teacher's warning to the husbands ("Your wives will give all your stuff to Goodwill!"), I am concentrating on getting rid of my own junk.
I'm performing a cookbook purge, having realized that I only make a few recipes over and over, while other ones will never be tried. My SIL will be the lucky recipient of three cookbooks, and the rest? Who knows. The laundry room? The dump? Some of them are freakin' heavy, too.
In fact, I have a systematic urge to go through every room in the house and throw out whatever I don't use. The urge is powerful and primal, almost like adolescent hormones. I want to get a crib earlier than D does, too. And I'm going to do it! It's bookmarked at target.com, and come late April, I'm ordering it. So there.
Comments
I wish I had known before my trip to NYC that you were purging, I could have just come and got them. I'm coming back, but probably not until May.
Where are you getting your baby knit patterns? I don't have any immediate need to knit baby stuff, but my sister and her husband have started trying, so . . .
Lisa - I'm pulling them from a bunch of random sources. I made a baby hat from Stitch 'n' Bitch, a baby hat from one of those page-a-day knitting calendars, and booties from the same calendar. The baby blanket is from lionbrand.com; the sweater is from One Skein Wonders. I also ordered a couple of Debbie Bliss baby knit books from Amazon.
I second what poppy said--I'll take your cookbooks off your hands!
I really shouldn't be reading this just 45 minutes after I woke up. I read the title (even though I read this post yesterday) as "Damn testing nurse." Whatever that means.
Tracy - yup, probably a dangerous choice for ppl learning English! :)
You can throw out my junk.