Mama La Vida Lanka: Nesting in the Kitchen

The house is all Christmassy and baby’s stuff are all ready now the rest of the house should follow suit right?  Right!

While we wait for baby's arrival, I transformed my nesting instincts into home projects.  Well, it was more of I transformed my impatience and anxiety to home projects!  And it's not even past her due date(s) yet! But I digress.  So for the last installment of my Nesting posts, I focused on fixing up our kitchen!


Check it out!

The cookbook area

Before

After

The Storage for Tissues and Whatnots

Before

After

Cooking Ingredients

Before

After

Snacks and De-Lata's

Before 

After

Now I wonder, how long will this state of order last?  Haha!

Oh and while we wait, let’s have a little fun!  Join the Birthing Game!

Mama La Vida Lanka: The Nesting Continues

As I was able to complete our Christmas decorating, I then moved on to the second wave: the end all and be all of all nesting instincts, Baby’s Stuff!

Check it out!

The crib I got for only Rs5000/ (which is around Php2,500).  It's fairly safe until baby knows how to stand up on her own - which could be by the time we're out of here already...

the crib!

It's hard to take a decent shot of the changing table because of where it's located.  But here it is!

"the changing table"

Baby's clothes can fit into a basket (sans the nappies which are in a nappy bin)!  We decided not to buy much at this stage as baby will grow too fast anyways!

baby's clothes!

Baby's first few books... this will definitely add up later on :-)

books, books, books!

 For everything else... the closet!

baby's closet :-)

Oh and while we wait, let’s have a little fun!  Join the Birthing Game!

Mama La Vida Lanka: Let The Nesting Begin!

One of nature’s way of signalling that labor and birth are near is by what you call a nesting instinct or the desire to clean and prepare your “nest” for baby’s arrival.  I actually didn’t know what to expect of this because I’m relatively a neat-freak.  But it does sweep over you (pardon the pun) in such a way that you have not experienced before – whether OC or otherwise.

For me, it manifested itself in the following weird ways:

• I suddenly had the urge to do the laundry (and have seriously thought about ironing, my hatest chore ever – thank God the cleaning lady came in time!) – even if someone else will be doing it soon.
• One of the things I wanted to wash are our curtains, you see it’s kind of hard and even a bit dangerous (at least for my heavy condition) to do this.  Since hubby was a bit busy, I took it upon myself to get myself up there, put up the already washed curtains that hubby got the night before, move on to the next room and get the curtains to be washed myself. 
• I have seriously thought about calling in sick just to do all the nesting items on my to-do list.  At that time, I only had 3 more days to go at work.  I controlled the urge of course and got all excited about the stretch of time I have to do my nesting activities (hopefully) before baby arrives.

So even my previously already OC self have become a little bit nuttier with this nesting instinct!  I guess it also came at the right time.  My nesting instinct became really handy in decorating our home in time for Christmas!  The first wave of my nesting instinct so to speak.

Check it out!

the dining and living room

a closer look at the dining room (with my bday party menu! haha!)

merry christmas!

a closer look at the living room

red and brown/gold is the color theme of the christmas 2011

a little something at the corner

christmas tree! thanks hubby for agreeing to put one up this year! with our driver's gift (the birds)!

a closer look at our christmas tree!

the view across the couch - with our dugyot TV (mind you maganda ang sounds nyan!)

four stockings this year! papa p, mommy t, baby l and nanalou!

snowflakes hanging on the door handles

Oh and while we wait, let’s have a little fun!  Join the Birthing Game!