We are less than a week away from the packers {not the green bay variety but equally large hawaiian and samoan men} arriving to pack our house.
I’m dragging my feet on SO many tasks because it’s the exact opposite of what I want to be doing.
I’ve got that 3rd trimester nesting instinct.
It seems to be heightened by the assumption that this is our last biological baby.
{we want to adopt in a real bad way but this army life complicates that a wee bit}
Instead of taking down photos from the walls I want to be adding new ones.
It’s all so much worse because our belongings aren’t due to arrive in ‘Bama till after Army Brat #3 arrives.
Bye bye nesting instinct, hello newborn + sleep deprivation.
I’d be totally content nesting in a new house in ‘Bama but the timing is all off.
{i feel a bit like a petulant teenager who is throwing a toddler-esque tantrum}
I have turned something that is a normal part of this Army life into an internal battle with no winner.
My Soldier has been UBER gracious and stepped in areas where I can’t hack it and let me be OCD in areas that shouldn’t really matter.
He’s a hurricane of productivity right now.
What I see as chaos always results in order and I am so thankful that he can pull this off.
Today I actually have energy!
It could be due to the 12 hours of sleep I got plus begging My Soldier to pray for my strength as he kissed me goodbye at o’ dark-thirty this morning.
I’m begrudgingly plowing through my To Do list while drowning my sorrows in iced coffee and See’s Candy.
I have more un-nesting I need to accomplish, I just needed to vent to the vast Interwebs.


There’s My Helper and her sign.
Here’s The Cadet.
Side note: notice the reaction the the people in the background.

It was at this point that the earth settle back on it’s axis and all was at peace again.









Simplicity 9427
McCall’s 5921
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New Look 6871
McCall’s 6265
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I also pulled one of my Japanese pattern books.
My Vintage Education 
