It is so weird doing all the last-minute baby prep things that I thought I’d be doing actually at the last minute…right now.
One Type A-ish thing that I did before Indy arrived: I took on all those annoying, time-consuming projects that really have to get done at some point but definitely are not going to get done in the presence of a newborn. Like backing up my computer and organizing my millions of photos; compiling a list of addresses to send out birth announcements; cleaning out the pantry. Stuff so boring that it makes me want to cry…but that won’t even register on the scale of possible undertakings for a good six (ok, twelve) months post-baby-arrival.
Getting all these tasks done in advance ended up being such an enormous mind-settler the first time around that I decided to do the same thing before Goldie gets here.
Which means I’m doing them – all of them – this week. While packing and finalizing ten million pieces of paperwork that need to get to California before we do and doing book edits. And not sleeping, but that’s OK; I’ll sleep later, when my children are teenagers and I have at long last figured out how to explain to my dogs that “sunrise” does not translate to “time to begin maniacally licking Jordan’s leg and barking at walls.”
Stop Number One on the Grand Pre-San Francisco Organization Tour: my closet.
If you weren’t sure, this is the “after” shot, which should tell you something about what it looked like “before.” I’m aware that this is hardly a prizewinner for Most Organized Closet…but the fact that the floor is visible is a not-inconsiderable miracle. The doors close now. Baby steps.
I’ve talked before about how I am very tidy about spaces I can see and very messy about spaces that I cannot (like drawers), and my closet is a prime example of this…but I’m already getting excited about rediscovering my waist-revealing clothing post-baby, and I think returning home to a closet that lets me actually see the things that I own will be sort of great.
While we’re talking closets: above is a segment I shot for JITH featuring some of my favorite organization tips and what our attic looked like before it was transformed into the House Of Legos.
