Single digit weeks left

At 30 weeks and 1 day I am now down to the single digit week countdown. 9 weeks and 6 days left. In theory, of course. (Interested in placing a real guess? Go here, enter game name "AprilHansBaby2" and enter your guess on gender, date, weight, and length.)

Nesting has set in. In between my bouts of fatigue, that is. This has substantially helped my New Years goal to better organize my house. I am normally an organization freak, but I have been slipping the past few years. I call it being a mom. I had lofty ambitions for this past weekend, paint the guest room for Leif, get the Christmas decorations packed up and put away, get the decorations into the attic and the baby stuff down, and buy a desk for our library, so I can have my craft tables back (I need one for my sewing machine) and my library doesn’t look like a paper factory exploded. After one weekend, I can check the packing up of the Christmas decorations off the list. And even though it wasn't on my official list I also managed to clean the linen closet and the organize the spice cabinet.

The rest of that stuff just took more energy then AB and I had.

Here is my list of stuff I need to do to feel really prepared for this baby:

1. Buy a desk and file cabinet for the library. (Ok, ok, so this seems weird, bear with me. Buying a desk and file cabinet means that I can organize ALL that paper in guest room and library in one space. Freeing up the guest room is key!)

2. Remove contents from guest room (done once, but the items grew legs and crept back).

3. Paint guest room for Leif.

4. Paint elephant on the wall of the guest room and move Leif’s toys and fun stuff over to entice him over to the bigger room. (Since at this point the “bigger” room holds no appeal.)

5. Address furniture needs, shelves for Leif’s books and a dresser for the nursery. Admit that a trip to Ikea is really out of the question before the baby comes and resolve to “live” with whatever I can find here.

6. Figure out where all the stuff (wedding stuff, suitcases, wine, etc) from the guest room is going (attic, garage, formal dining room…) and put it there.

7. Put Christmas stuff in the attic at the same time.

8. While in the attic and the nursery is pretty much cleaned out courtesy of Leif’s evacuation, bring the baby stuff down.

9. Now the fun begins… Sort through the baby stuff. Figure out what should be donated versus kept and washed. Wash.

10. Find and buy going home outfits.

11. Inventory… what do we need?
-Infant Advil and Tylenol
-Diapers
-Wipes
-Pacifiers
-New bottle nipples
-New (and good) nursing bras
-(what else?)

12. Buy above items we need

13. Pack bag (LIGHTLY) for the hospital.
-Camera and extra batteries
-Videocamera
-Going home outfits
-Comfy, but decent looking clothes for me going home. Maternity is a must... silly me last time thought I would be going home in regular clothes.
-Travel size containers of shampoo etc.
-Brush
-Chapstick
-Hair bands
-Soft socks
-Baby book
-(What else?)

So what do you think? Doable in 9 weeks time?