nesting weekend

we had a gloriously productive weekend - i love it when that happens.  saturday morning, we finally buckled down and finished clearing out matson's room-to-be of non-baby-related paraphernalia.  since i'd already gone through it once, this mostly just meant scott carrying stuff into the basement for me.  the white paint from when we moved into the house two and a half years ago was looking pretty gloopy, so we went to lowe's for a fresh can ... and picked up some closet doors while we were there!  we got the shelves and wall brackets all painted up with our lovely semi-gloss bright white, and the closet doors are mostly done - two coats on the front and one on the back (which you really won't see anyway since we got bifold doors), which just leaves the sides and top/bottom of the doors to do.

hmm, when i write it out, it really doesn't sound like we got all that much done.  keep in mind that we had to wait for paint to dry before we could apply more coats, so a fair bit of that was just waiting time ... and we interspersed all of that with things like running four loads of laundry, going to a one-year old's birthday party, doing mounds of dishes, and hosting small group last night (for which i made baked ziti, garlic butter crescent rolls, salad, and a blueberry apple coffee cake).  oh, and that scott worked for four hours yesterday.

once we get the shelves and closet doors up and the crib assembled (still need to buy a crib mattress - maybe that'll be next weekend's task), i think we'll be pretty well set as far as the nursery goes!  i guess things still on my to-do list include finishing the glider's ottoman cover (which was my plan for this weekend until that got sidelined by the closet doors) and figuring out some wall decor.  curtains are also on my list, but i'm not letting myself think about that until the glider's done - scott's been making fun of my ability to follow through on projects that i start, so i feel a need to show him that i really can finish things.  really, though, with just a few hours of work this weekend, i feel way better about our level of preparedness already.

speaking of preparation, we're also slowly working our way through our labor book and hoping to be finished reading it by about 36 weeks ... which gives us five weeks!  we started reading it on our way to phoenix for christmas three and a half weeks ago (is that really all??  christmas seems forever ago!), and are just shy of halfway through the book.  hmm, although in retrospect we skipped some substantial portions of the beginning of the book about things like choosing a doctor and a hospital and why pain relieving drugs are evil.  we may need to pick up the pace a bit.