Wednesday, March 07, 2007

The problem with nesting!

Now then, after spending the last 8 months telling anyone who'll listen that the nesting instinct won't be coming near me, I am loath to say that I think I've gained it! Now, don't get me wrong, I am not cleaning every spare part of my home, nor has my house become the neatest ever, it still looks just the same as ever, but a small part of me is urging me to get things ready for baby!! Now, this varies, from cleaning the tiles in the bathroom, through baking lovely biscuits, and straying into cooking home made soup to freeze.
I have 2 problems:
1. Is it better to start a job and not finish it or just not start it?! I ask because the majority of the tiles in my bathroom reflect the light in a never-before-seen-in-my-bathroom kind of a manner!! It started off being a mission to clean the grout between the tiles near the bath, and became a clean the tiles exercise! However, when I got to the towel rail, and the cupboard respectively, I gave up!! My slight excuse was that it was past tea time, I was starving and my knees hurt from kneeling on the floor, but still, a job not quite done!! The grout looks a million times better, and the tiles you can see whilst in the bath, or on the toilet do look lovely and shiny!! It really is the ones you'd have to squint to appreciate anyway that still need a quick scrub to glisten... but should I have bothered? Most of me thinks yes, but then everytime I walk in now I feel like I should finish them off..... I guess that when I do get inspired again it means that it'll only take a few minutes as most of it's been done...
2. Now, I have read tons of books, magazines and websites on almost every aspect of pregnancy, even glancing over a few on the good old nesting instinct!! They all, without fail, tell you that the best thing you can possibly do on your maternity leave is cook!! (Actually, I think rest was perhaps the best thing, but cooking was definately the second best!!) Now, I like baking, and Steve has been the grateful recipient of many lovely baked treats in the last few weeks, although not apple pie I have to say, which he loves dearly!! But at the weekend I got inspired!! A trip to Tesco later and I was merrily making soup to freeze. I mean PROPER sou!p!! A huge pan full of mushroom soup and a pan of carrot soup too. Lovely lovely recipes from my stepdad, talk to me very nicely and I can pass them on to you!! Lovely and easy to do, so very tasty, and of course, good for you!! I had bought tubit things from Tesco to put soup in and put it in the freezer, and here came the second problem..... WHERE DO I PUT ALL THIS FOOD I'M GOING TO MAKE?! I had plans you see, plans beyond soup, plans to double the portions of what I normally make and freeze half of it....... Except no-one had told my freezer!I'm sure I'm not actually the only pregnat person in the world who doesn't have a chest freezer, but the pregnancy books/magazines and websites don't mention that to fulfil your true status as fab pregnant person by cooking and therefore providing meals for your expanded family after baby arrives, you have to have a chest freezer!! Part of me now feels cheated out of the experience... although i have to say, I'm not too gutted!! Admittedly, if we ate all the pies, chips, ice creams and ice cubes that are in our freezer, we could perhaps squeeze in a little home made goodness, but really, why should we?! I really am glad that Betty at church is organising a meal rota for at least the first few days after baby arrives!! Doubt very much I'll be awake enough to defrost frozen goodness had I room to freeze it anyway!!!

1 comment:

wend said...

lol very funny mate, im def of the opinion start a job even if you dont finish it unless its a pull it all out then you end up with loads of mess extra.

re freezing, we were inundated with food after Ruth so dont think you'll be short of a meal or 2!!

see ya tomorrow