Someone. Stop. Me.

According to parentingweekly.com, "Around the fifth month of pregnancy, the "nesting" instinct can set in. This is an uncontrollable urge to clean one's house brought on by a desire to prepare a nest for the new baby, to tie up loose ends of old projects and to organize your world."

BINGO.

I have had an overwhelming urge to completely organize my house.  I mean I have been a label-making, cabinent cleaning, storage box buyin, wallpaper stripping maniac!  I think part of this is due to my first trimester misery.  I was incredibly nauseous and tired.  I compared my tiredness to being slipped a "roofy" at about noon everyday.  So for the last 3 months, I accomplished basically nothing. 

This week I decided, impulsively, that I couldn't bear to live with my outdated, wallpapered laundry room.  It all started with a little pick of the paper and an innocent thought of, "Hmmm, I wonder if this comes off easily."  Needless to say, many hours, a "not-so-easy" to remove glued on 3 layers of wallpaper, an angry husband, an extremely messy laundry room, and one pregnant lady in extreme pain later, I had the wallpaper off!  Now what?

I pondered my situation as I laid in bed that night barely able to move.  I came to the conclusion that I would not be painting the laundry room.  I would call my trusted painter in the morning.  I scheduled him to come the next day to paint.  I also felt the need to buy new knobs for the cabinet, new light fixtures, a new utility sink, a new exterior door, and a new interior door.  Did I mention that I was out of control?  Did I mention my husband was just a wee bit annoyed with me?

Well, I'm definitely making up for the 3 months of doing nothing and someone needs to stop me.... take a look at just some of my madness.  I will post before and after pics of the laundry room soon! 

Hmmm... I wonder what project I should do next?