So with pregnancy definitely comes the NEED to "NEST"! This has happened every pregnancy with me and all of a sudden a couple nights ago it HiT me. It was almost 10:00 at night and I felt this uncontrolable need to empty out every drawer and cabinet in my house and clean, organize, and declutter. It made for a LATE night! Immediately I made my list of must get done PRONTOS! The whole nesting thing is quite funny, the most random things become so urgent! I have a tendency to become a little obsessive as well, just ask Keith... By the next day I had gone through all the kids clothes and toys, all the boxes in the garage, organized my family album and got caught up on the I don't know how many pics that I had still yet to get printed, bought a new comforter/sheets for the girls bed and decided on a new paint color to paint their room along with a new dresser, bought all sorts of bins for reorganizing ( oh how nice it would be to have Steph Weaver as my personal organizer!!! ) By the end of the next day it felt fabulous to have the back of my car filled with things to drop off at goodwill! I'm just getting started! I'm sure many of you mommas out there can relate!

I decided to see look up "NEsting" and here's a little bit of what I found: ( I have yet to get out the iron, but you never know..)

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.

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.