Nesting

Our prenatal class teacher told us "Guys, one day you'll come home and your pregnant wife will say 'We've got to change ALL the doorknobs RIGHT NOW'", and that this is normal for pregnant women, and that we should humour them - they're carrying our baby after all. This is apparently referred to as 'nesting'.

If only it were contained to doorknobs! On top of replacing a couple remaining doorknobs that got missed in previous updates, in the last nine months we have:

• undergone a major kitchen renovation;
• culled and completely reorganized the basement;
• emptied the middle bedroom and replaced it with baby paraphernalia (this kid isn't even born yet and he needs a will...) as well as repainted the room and installed new shelves;
• rearranged the living room; and
  
• rearranged the dining room.
  

If we have another kid we'll have to do the neighbour's house.

To be fair, it all needed to be done and it wasn't just hormones talking as I was an initiator too. It may be 15 years or more before we have time to do that kind of stuff again. Our nest is better off for it all and little Lucky will come into the best kind of world we can make for him. The next time you see a pair of birds in flight though, don't be fooled - it's not sightseeing, it's a kitchen reno in progress.

16 days and counting...