Nesting

The Nesting instinct is officially in full swing around here. I have a list of projects a mile long to get done before this little one arrives and I'm not sure if we are going to finish them all.

I've been motivated recently because I agreed to host a yard sale for our Sunday school class on June 2nd. We are trying to earn money for our care fund so we can "care" for those in our class. So, Vimal and I usually have a small "project" every night or so to take care of - like cleaning and reorganizing our storage shed, going through a closet and so on. I'm excited to have a deadline to work towards and hopefully by June 2nd or before my entire house will be purged of "stuff" that we don't really need or use.

I never realized how freeing it is to get rid of my "stuff". We tend to purchase things thinking that it will make our lives easier and then we just have to find a place to store it. Storing is a problem in our case since our house was built with minimal storage. I'm trying to be better about not purchasing things that I don't really need so it won't end up taking up space and my life will be simpiler. So, we are purging to make room for our new addition.

All we have left to do at this point are the kitchen cabinets, linen closet, master closet, and some shelves in the guest room (which will soon be Rachel's room). I'm so excited.

And unfortunately, that is only the beginning of my list. I still need to finish Rachel's baby books, add shelving to her closet, go through and reorganize all of my pictures since college (I actually did the ones up through college last summer), get some picture frames, frame some pictures, paint Rachel's new room, decorate Rachel's new room...you get the picture. All of this and I have only 11 weeks to go.

So, I think I should go get busy! Feel free to leave me some tips for me in the comments section! I welcome any advice!