We’re under two months until the baby’s due, and this is apparently when the whole “nesting” thing should kick in. But it’s more because of the dwindling time than any real desire to accumulate these things that we’ve finally started getting around to acquiring the baby stuff for pretty much strictly the necessities. The one thing we really cared about was the stroller (we’ve long known we wanted a Quinny Buzz, should we ever have a baby). Check. Everything else just seems like stuff.
Since about March, though, we seem to have been undergoing a systematic strategy of replacing most of our electronics. It’s absolutely not baby-related, but we’ll just make this count. It started with the innocent replacement of our ancient desktop computer. That expanded into building ourselves a whole little network. Then our waffle maker decided to die. (It’s worth mentioning here that waffles are a key outlet for using my sourdough starter when I feed it, oh, every week.) However, in replacing the waffle maker, that also expanded to replacing our (horrid) blender with one that actually works, along with several other kitchen implements. The only thing that has escaped thus far is the hand mixer, but I have my sights set on that one, too.
Conveniently, most everything you could want is on sale somewhere due to the whole economic catastrophe, making this whole effort much more affordable. However, it seems more of it should revolve around baby stuff. There’s still time, I guess. In the meantime, I’ll just continue my quest to use up sock yarn on random things for baby appendages that may or may not turn out to be colors for the correct gender.
