Don’t wait until the last month to nest
I’m expecting my second child and my husband and I want to get some home improvements done as well as deep cleaning before baby is here. Well I guess we didn’t think very carefully about the timeline and waited until the third trimester to start on anything. Which means I am basically alone taking care of our 21 month old every day and every night while he works on remodeling the basement and deep cleaning. It is so physically exhausting (on top of working a full time job) and I feel so miserable not getting the rest I need.
I’ve complained about this arrangement to him and his solution has been to wait until the toddler is in bed before getting started on the projects for the day. Which just means he’s exhausted and falling asleep on the couch late at night and I’m left alone without any company during the evening hours. I’d like my husband back and just some precious quiet family time to rest and enjoy the last few weeks before our new family member arrives.
I wish we did all this work during the second trimester, but we were traveling and visiting family instead because I felt good. I guess I’m just posting this to vent a little bit!
We did scale back on the plans a bit but unfortunately some of the projects are already half done and the house is torn apart so it’s probably best to just forge ahead on most of it.