now that I have entered the “baby could arrive any day now” phase of pregnancy, I have suddenly lost my former inclincation towards procrastination. Everything seems incredibly urgent. Baby quilt? Finish it, stat. Cleaning the bathroom? Better do it today. I don’t want to look at my own dirty bathroom while I’m in labour. Grocery shopping, researching moving costs, looking at house rentals in Vancouver? Do it now, now, now. Even meeting friends to see a movie or getting my hair cut, I’m making that appointment for this week rather than next.

this has spilled over into my housekeeping habits, and I can’t really tell whether it’s because we’re having a homebirth and I want to be in a tidy space during labour or whether this is just normal nesting behaviour, but holy my house is way cleaner than it usually is. And I’ve discovered (ssh!) that it’s actually easier to keep up with the cleaning by doing it all the time. Of course, now that I have developed these new habits they will all very shortly go out the window in favour of feedings and changings and catching whatever sleep I can, but at least now I know that I had a clean house once upon a time.

no updates on the moving situation yet, we are still in the negotiation phase but hopefully coming to the end of that and will be making a decision soon. and the thesis, oh the thesis! it’s still being written. we’re actually having a race, thesis vs fetus. who will finish first?

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