Let the games begin! We started prepping here for baby a while back now, starting with having the boys’ room painted in early spring. Soon, they’ll transition to a different space and their room will become the nursery. Before that happens though, we need to swap out the room they’re moving to, and everything there will move to a room in the basement. Naturally, the things that were in that basement space needed to be relocated, too, so that’s where we began this past week and continue to work in prep for a cascade of changes for everyone.

I love changes like this because it makes for the exact right time to audit drawers and cabinets, shelves, baskets and bins. In the same, it’s pretty hard to recruit young troupes to help in the effort, so it’s kind of become a bit of an eye roll (for some) each time I ask for help in a new space. As I alluded to a few posts back, I’m just not in a place to keep up the pace I normally maintain, and everyone is feeling the added weight of this shared reality. I don’t bend as quickly or easily, my lifting skills are more limited, and I need a break more readily than I’d like to admit. There’s relief in pressing toward 28 weeks because it feels like it’s more justifiable to have limitations than it was a month or two ago, but I keep hanging onto the thought of X many weeks to go and I’m not mentally ready to need my feet up yet. These lessons that keep coming on stillness, I tell you…

Today Gramma (Mom) is in town, and it’s possible we’re cut from the same cloth when it comes to enjoying the feeling of progress and a job complete. Lists are for checking off, right?! So we spent a few hours tackling step 1 of the established Tetris game here, and you can bet that before bed we’ll have it done. This means that tomorrow I can begin step 2, which will drive the kids bananas but make me feel like we’re getting to the progress we need to be sure that there’s a nursery well under way over the next few weeks. Step 2 is a lot of “stuff” editing and paring down in order to move only the necessary and reasonable items to the basement space. This excites no one but me, I’m pretty sure, but once we’re onto step 3, I think I’ll discover more buy-in among our crew. It’s hard to transfer a nesting vision to everyone at once. 😉

I wish I could pull a genie moment and just nod and blink and find everything set it its new place. Seeing as I can’t though, rolling up my sleeves as I’m able and taking baby steps toward the final goal still feels great–I don’t think anyone will mind the new arrangement a bit once it’s settled (and least of all, me). I know that baby won’t need a room to him or herself for a good bit, but having everything ready feels like a necessary part of the journey, and I’m here for it. Now just to boost morale and find new and creative ways to incentivize buy-in for the younger members of our transition crew…

Can’t believe we’re at 90 already! Where does the time go?

MM