My Husband is Nesting

So cute. Yesterday, Andrey says to me, "I think I'll work on that photo organizing project because if we get kids soon..." I immediately told him, "You're nesting!"

I found this on a pregnancy website referring to the nesting instinct:

Around the fifth month of pregnancy, the "nesting" instinct can set in. This is an uncontrollable urge to clean one's house brought on by a desire to prepare a nest for the new baby, to tie up loose ends of old projects and to organize your world.

While I wouldn't call it uncontrollable, I would say that Andrey and I are in the least tending toward tying up loose ends of old projects around the house. It's not that uncommon for us to putter around the house on a Saturday and get a few things done but what is uncommon is for Andrey to suddenly feel the need to work on a project that we honestly have been ignoring for years.

The photos that need organizing are printed photos, taken before we got our first digital camera in 2004. We have stacks and stacks of photos that need to be put into albums. When we moved to Thailand in 2004, we brought the piles of photos and at least 5 or 6 empty photo albums waiting to be filled. Since then the furthest we got was getting some of the piles in chronological order. When we moved to Cebu in 2007, we again, moved these piles of photos and the empty albums. We haven't done anything with them, except pile the boxes they are in in one of our guest bedrooms. It's been years. Until yesterday. So that's why I immediately called it a nesting instinct. Well done, Andrey.

He worked on it all day yesterday and is still working on it today. It will likely take a few more days but at least we are finally addressing this project, for which I can take no credit for. I'd help, but I'm busy getting our budget up-to-date, which is another overdue project.

I just read this post to Andrey and he wanted me to add this greeting (brought on by looking at old photos full of great memories): "Thanks for the mammaries, everyone."