Nesting...

Apparently this is me...I'm nesting...

So I mention on Facebook the other day that I'm doing bills, organizing and cleaning...fancy grown up stuff. Someone comments that I'm nesting. I was like "WTF? This isn't fun! I thought nesting was like...cute, fun stuff, like painting baby's room and picking out little baby booties and things like that!" Apparently no...nesting can be plain old boring cleaning, without baking pies or anything else seemingly more fun than cleaning...I looked it up online and read that it can even be very intense cleaning, like scrubbing things you've never cleaned in your life (under fridge, ewww...) However I am happy that for me the nesting instinct has included organizing all my art documents, including starting to make sense of my 20 different mailing lists, making a press binder, organizing old show cards, etc, etc, etc...
Here's how nesting goes...according to a random internet source:

Nesting Instinct

Around the fifth month of pregnancy, the "nesting" instinct can set in. This is an uncontrollable urge to clean one's house brought on by a desire to prepare a nest for the new baby, to tie up loose ends of old projects and to organize your world.

Females of the animal kingdom are all equipped with this same need. It is a primal instinct. Just as you see birds making their nests, mothers-to-be do exactly the same thing. The act of nesting puts you in control and gives a sense of accomplishment toward birth. You may become a homebody and want to retreat into the comfort of home and familiar company, like a brooding hen. The nesting urge can also be seen as a sign of the onset of labor when it occurs close to 40 weeks of pregnancy.

Nesting brings about some unique and seemingly irrational behaviors in pregnant women and all of them experience it differently. Women have reported throwing away perfectly good sheets and towels because they felt the strong need to have "brand new, clean" sheets and towels in their home. They have also reported doing things like taking apart the knobs on kitchen cupboards, just so they could disinfect the screws attached to the knobs. Women have discussed taking on cleaning their entire house, armed with a toothbrush. There seems to be no end to the lengths a nesting mother will go to prepare for her upcoming arrival.

This unusual burst of energy is responsible for women ironing anything in the house that couldn't out run them. Being preoccupied with ant killing, squishing them one at a time for weeks on end. Packing and unpacking the labor bag 50 times. Cleaning the kitchen cupboards and organizing everything by size to the point that you make sure the silverware patterns match when it's stacked in the cutlery drawer. Sorting the baby's clothes over and over again is a favorite theme. Taking them out of the drawers and re-folding them, putting them away and doing it over and over again. Nesting will provide interesting stories for years to come.

Nesting can be one of the more humorous aspects of pregnancy. One that you and your partner are sure to laugh about in the years to come...if he ever forgives you for sending him off to work and ripping down all the wallpaper in the hall! You may laugh about it now but you probably won't laugh when you're in the middle of it. No one can pull you out of it no matter how silly your behavior may seem. It simply becomes something that you must do!

Ok, now I feel less crazy...but do think that maybe there will have to be art made about this...maybe birds in a nesting frenzy, wrecking a house in the process...we'll see.....