So apparently we've begun the process of "nesting".
What is nesting? I've heard it said a lot about parents-to-be, but upon looking up the word online I found no mention of trimesters. Instead I found a few common meanings about birds and twigs, computing data sets, stacking dolls, and simply a "home". Mostly very warm and cuddly. But then one caught my eye: "a place in which young are reared; a lair". Aha! We are instinctively building a lair - cool!
Not really knowing what a lair was, I looked that up too. The word has its roots in Old England and Old High German - what do you know, so does our family. Hmmm...reading further: "A resting or sleeping place." That makes sense. Maureen has been sleeping
a lot. Next meaning: "the resting or living place of a wild animal." Bingo! Now it all makes sense. We are
instinctively preparing our home to rear a young wild animal!!
As you can see, we have a ways to go from rearing our stray kitten, two German Shepherds, and Mo's 20-something-year-old Cabbage Patch Dolls that she discovered (and decided to bathe) while nesting this past weekend.
So apparently we've begun the process of "nesting".
What is nesting? I've heard it said a lot about parents-to-be, but upon looking up the word online I found no mention of trimesters. Instead I found a few common meanings about birds and twigs, computing data sets, stacking dolls, and simply a "home". Mostly very warm and cuddly. But then one caught my eye: "a place in which young are reared; a lair". Aha! We are instinctively building a lair - cool!
Not really knowing what a lair was, I looked that up too. The word has its roots in Old England and Old High German - what do you know, so does our family. Hmmm...reading further: "A resting or sleeping place." That makes sense. Maureen has been sleeping a lot. Next meaning: "the resting or living place of a wild animal." Bingo! Now it all makes sense. We are instinctively preparing our home to rear a young wild animal!!
As you can see, we have a ways to go from rearing our stray kitten, two German Shepherds, and Mo's 20-something-year-old Cabbage Patch Dolls that she discovered (and decided to bathe) while nesting this past weekend.
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