Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Nesting

In 7 or 8 weeks' time I will give birth to our second child, Andrea Samantha, and for the past weeks now, I have found myself nesting.

Baby books describe it as the preparations of parents-to-be in anticipation of the arrival of the newest addition to the family.

Sometimes, I find myself already exhausted at the end of the day and the worse thing is after everything that I have done, I still find so many things to prepare before the big day! It's not that easy anymore considering that I have additional 12-13 kilos with me everytime I move around and try to do some errands. Good thing I haven't found driving the car hard to do up to this point. It's still a necessity.

What have kept me super busy the past days?
Preparing the Mommy and Baby bags
Sterilizing the bottles that might be used
Sorting out the clothes and hand me-down clothes of Sam and Liam
Cleaning the baby equipment that Sam will be using -- there's just too many of them! -- changing table, cot, bassinet, stroller with capsule, etc
Errands at home to be done and to be attended to while I am in the hospital
My pending requirements with my two-year Certificate course
Listing down of to-do's
Sorting of important papers
Preparing and labeling the bed sheets, clothes, etc while I'm at the hospital.
Preparation of the Christmas gifts
The LBC box that we sent to Manila, shopping for its contents and labelling, packing it.
The errands I'm asking my Mom to do for me in Manila

Looking at the list now, it seems so short. It is short. But hey, these activities seemed not as simple as it used to. Maybe bacause aside from these, I still help out in the chores at home (even if Alvin and my in-laws are trying their best to help)..I still clean the house every now and then, I do the laundry, I keep the washed clothes, I iron the clothes. And the hardest of them all, caring for a 2 year old -- who happens to be my son!

Good thing I have the internet to give me my much-needed break or the books that I have as well. It gives me the break and the time-out that I need in order to keep me sane. I want to give birth already but sometimes I think, which will be easier, doing all these things or doing more things because the baby is out already! So I go slow on what I pray for hehe

Can wait to get over all of these!