Nesting - Or How I Went From Needing a Bed and Dresser to Re-doing My Entire Kitchen

I'm about halfway through my pregnancy now (there's a formal announcement for anyone who didn't already know) and am feeling the nesting instinct like crazy. It happens to me every time. With Claire's pregnancy I spent the last couple of months hauling big concrete blocks around for some poor-man's landscaping. This time, we're feeling a desire for change. For the last few months I've been nesting mentally in my dream house. But since that won't be near enough in the future for us, we're looking at another house in our neighborhood (Spencer's house, for those who know them). Hoping it would be possible, but we have a lot of financial unknowns lurking with Todd switching careers and all that. But in the meantime, we either have to make it work here, or I'll be sprucing it up for a possible future sale. Anyone know anyone who's in the market for a house in Monmouth - let me know! So here's what I've been busy with in the last little while:

Got a hand-me-down daybed, repainted and assembled it for Claire, subsequently getting rid of the old futon that was in this spot. We passed on the mattress to a friend and Todd gets credit for chopping the frame into firewood.

Got a hand-me-down dresser (thanks Shar!), repaired a broken spot and hauled it down to Sophie's room

Took Sophie's old dresser, primed and painted it and put it in Claire's room/the office

Peeled old wallpaper and primed Janelle's half of their room. Brooke has not felt the desire to clean her half yet, so I'm not going to paint it.

Since I already had the primer out I figured I might as well touch up some trim around the house.

The hallway was looking a little dingy and dirty too, so it needed some priming and painting.

Primed the bathroom door which had previously been painted the same color as the wall - big mistake, it did not look pretty.

Being already in the de-wallpapering and priming mode, I went ahead and did the same in the kitchen, which desperately needed a change.

I was working in the kitchen anyway, so I took the opportunity to clean behind the fridge (for some reason, a clean back of the fridge becomes very important to me during every pregnancy).

If I have the option now to change the wallcolor, I didn't want to be limited by the cupboards, so I decided I should paint them all too. So far I've just removed the cupboard doors, but I've got big plans for them. And obviously I've got to do SOMETHING about my old mustardy countertop.

Still to do: paint in the twins' room (at least half of it), paint over the primer in the hallway, on the trim, and on the bathroom door, paint the kitchen walls and cupboards, and plan and carry out countertop replacement or resurfacing.

Todd suggested if I run out of things to do, I can move all the concrete from the backyard to the front and vice versa :)