Making Room For A Little Lady

 The past couple of weeks have found me doing some serious cleaning and organizing..... reorganizing Finn's closet and filling half of it with baby girl clothes, doing a huge clean-out of the fridge and pantry, purging all sort of unnecessary extras from the garage. I thought that I had already started nesting, which I was actually pretty excited about, as I was dreaming of all of the projects I could accomplish in the now 7 weeks that I have before baby #2 is due to arrive. However, the past couple days I have been feeling quite lazy and unproductive, and I am starting to wonder if my organizing madness was just an attempt at some New Year's resolutions and not at all related to being pregnant. Anyways, if it's not nesting, I hope I start nesting soon. Fitting an entire fourth person into our 880 square foot home (that also has 2 dogs and 3 cats, mind you) will be no easy feat, so I think some serious preparations are in order. And the earlier that we get a move on with this, the better!
I also feel extremely lucky this time for all of the hand-me-downs we have received for this little lady who is going to enter our lives. From about 2 weeks after I found out I was pregnant, I knew I was having a girl as I felt so different from when  was pregnant with Finn (and yes, an ultrasound did confirm my feelings, so I don't think we are in for any surprises...).  I was of course excited about having a girl, but also a little bit nervous about how different it would be. I also had feelings of frustration about needing a whole second set of clothes since we already had a perfectly good little boy's wardrobe boxed up in our garage.
However, as soon as word got out that I was having a girl, I was the recipient of several bags of hand-me-downs from neighbors and mama friends. Friends have offered to lend us the few baby items that we don't have left from Finn (like an electric breast pump!). Amazingly, I think we are going to squeeze by with only needing to get a few size small cloth diapers (we only had about 8 with Finn, and I found myself doing diaper laundry every day for awhile, which is definitely not energy efficient). I feel so lucky to be surrounded by such wonderful, generous friends who have not only saved us a lot of money, but have allowed us to reduce our impact by not having to purchase new items.