Oh, those crazy pregnant ladies, with their hormones and their funny little out of control emotions.

That's the tone of this New York Times story about the, shall we say overacheiving nesting taken on by some pregnant women. It profiles several women about the wide-ranging house renovation projects they took on during their pregnancies.  

One of those is actress Angela Kinsey of "The Office" who comes across as only slightly less control-freaky (but with a lot more self-deprecating humor) than her character on the show (a severely uptight accountant). She hired someone to enlarge windows in her house, among other things. Windows.

While the attitude of the writer and the contractors  interviewed is more than a little infuriatingly patronizing, I have to say I've been through this twice and found myself nodding my head along with some of the women. I so clearly remember bumping my enormous full-term body along my hardwood floors shortly before my daughter was born, cleaning every baseboard in the house to within an inch of its life. My (insanely clean) mother-in-law was coming and I was sure she was going to judge me (some more). My girl is three and I think the baseboards have been cleaned once since. I thought I didn’t nest this time with my son, but then remembered The Kitchen Project of Imminent Divorce and accompanying ruthless organizational spree around the beginning of my third trimester (my marriage did survive, barely).

Nesting might be a little crazy –but when else is a busy mother supposed to have time or energy for that stuff?