Feathering your nest!
As the clocks have gone forward this weekend – Spring is firmly upon us. Even the weather has sat up and taken note! As I’m now 31 weeks pregnant it also appears that my nesting instinct has well and truly kicked in. First on the list for a thorough clear out was our loft; it’s taken two whole weekends to clear our four and a half years of rubbish to make way for our new little person and all their belongings. It’s amazing what you throw up the loft hatch, old boxes from new kettles, TVs and other electrical packaging discarded and gathering dust. Then there’s the boxes we inherited from my mam and dads loft when they moved – full of artwork from school to add to the mound of portfolios I already had from university, the perils of doing a fashion degree means folders and mood boards galore. Then there’s all the photos! Wow – in the day and age of digital pictures it was really nice to come across photos of friends on school trips, family parties and old holiday memories. I now have a box full of pictures so a few new photo frames like this one or these are a must. This discovery has confirmed to me we should definitely have lots of prints taken of the newborn as well as keeping a digital photo album. I have been offered numerous pregnancy photo shoots by photographer friends but I don’t think the whole Demi Moore nude bump shots are for me – hats off to those who do have the guts to do it!
Joining the old photos were millions of cards – birthdays, Christmases, a graduation, passing driving tests – a whole record of our achievements proving I really am a hoarder. Of course we filled in excess of 30 bin sacks and recycling bags of rubbish and unwanted clothes for the local charity shop, aptly the charity – Sense – for deaf and blind children so other infants will benefit from us making way for ours.
Once we’d dusted our selves off from the loft clearance the three of us, (yes Cookie explored up there too!), finally finished the nursery with a border of bunnies and sheep to compliment the toffee cream paint and a finger border for the light switch. I also found homes for all the gorgeous Next Ziggy and Friends bits I’d been indulging in over the last few weeks and of course the furniture we assembled weeks earlier now have homes. All I need now is a lovely nursing chair. Ho hum more shopping for me, it’s a hard life!
