... and add a pregnancy to those emotions...
... you may find that your house suddenly falls pray to her nesting/emotion combination...
... she may start on the closets...
... and then move on to the bedrooms...
... and even move into the garage... (where all of your beloved college boxes are, to which you have been attached since getting married)... and she will somehow convince you to join in the 'gutting' of the house and actually get rid of 3/4 of your collage boxes...
... and as she walks back into the house, you may witness her having an 'emotion' over this...
... and as you calmly explain to her that getting floors redone is not, in fact an emotional experience (it's more of a financial issue...)...
... she may get a 'wee' bit more emotional as she explains 'ever so calmly' that floors can be and ARE, in fact, an emotional experience, and she needs them redone NOW!!!...
... so you will give her the go ahead to schedule a 'refinishing of the floor'...
... which means your house will start to look like this...
... as you come home each night and find more things out of wack and get roped into some of the thousands of trips carrying loads of things down to the basement...
... and as you are both sitting, relaxing... she's going to look around the room and notice this...
... and declare that the walls need to be repainted...
... BEFORE the floors get redone...
... which means, she'll need lots of paint...
... and she'll start painting...
... she may get carried away and declare that the trim needs to also be repainted...
... and then realize (after doing ALL of the baseboards), that there are many shades of white... and she chose one just a shade off the original trim...
... to which you calmly try to explain that it is close enough...
... but not close enough for her emotions...
... which means another trip to the paint store for 'creamy white' to, yes, re-do the trim (except for the baseboards... because even pregnancy emotion is not enough to get one back on her knees again)...
... and you will come home to her asking, "what do you think"...
... and you choose your words very carefully, replying...
"Honey it looks WONDERFUL - thanks you so much - for all of the much needed work" (even though you didn't really think the walls needed to be done in the first place...)...
... and even though that ranks right up there in the white lies category with "Honey, you don't even look pregnant!"... as she is going in to deliver twins seven years ago...
... you will truly earn the 'greatest husband ever!' award in your emotional/nesting/pregnant wife's world :)
Thanks, honey - you truly earn the gold star award for dealing with preggo/emotional/nesting wife syndrome!!!
5 comments:
Very organized closets! We saw the "before" wall...where's the "afer" wall?
Busy makes the days go by faster...
only 38.
Take care. Love, Mom
Well, maybe a good thing about pregnancy is that you will have a new and improved house for the baby!
haha! isn't nesting great??! just when i was picking up steam (can we say "washing hanging light fixtures"?) i got stopped dead in my tracks and couldn't walk for the last 3 weeks of my pregnancy. i still mourn all the cleaning i could have accomplished in that time!! so go go go!!!
Hey - I want to see the after of the floor. I gotta say -that needed to be done! Oh - and I had a dream Bailey went the way of the heavenly hosts...wish it were true for you.
Jenn, you are hilarious! I love ya! I bet your house looks Amazing!
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