#our bedroom

Here's some of our family history. Jesus and I didn't and couldn't afford our own place right from the beginning so we were hermits living at my mother-in-laws. It was a crazy situation considering there were many of us living under the same roof and space was really tight. After so many months, almost a year, we were able to transition our family of three into a two-bedroom apartment just doors down from our family. By transition, I mean that we slept in a new bedroom, not two.

The second bedroom was agreed between us that it would be used as an office/workroom. I asked for that room back by December so that we could help David adjust to his own room, without us. We let time keep going and now here we are, a month before my due date and all of a sudden, there's two cribs in our bedroom! Not what I had in mind. At all.

During a doctors appointment a couple weeks ago, I asked what would be best for David and his sleeping arrangements. The pediatrician explained that it would be too late and hurtful for David to move out into his own room now. He said "Children's psychology is so much more advanced and sensitive than an adults, that they can detect when we're happy, mad, or sad, sometimes even before we know it."

So there was no time. He told me to just put everyone in their own bed in our room and that would be the best and healthiest adjustment for David.

Back to when we lived at my in-laws. My mom had given the baby a crib. It was a drop-side crib. Those were discontinued because they are NOT safe! Believe me, I threw it out. It was not coming to our new plain little home. So this entire time, he has been sleeping on his mattress and migrating to our bed in the middle of the night. Up until a couple weeks ago, he would sleep in between both our beds and find comfort during the night when he bumped into either bed or wall.

I kept hunting through craigslist for weeks and weeks and weeks.

Finally, the chance came up. A family was selling the exact cribs I wanted for the babies for an unbelievable price. They had triplets and I needed two of those cribs. Everything was arranged and I went to pick them up with my dad.

I feel so blessed that I found these cribs, mattresses, and bed rails (for the toddler bed transition) for only...

Dun dun duuuuuun....!


$70!


Oh yeah, did I mention that only one crib frame would cost me that price at ikea? Look.

We came home straight to building all of our bed frames. Ours wasn't up because not only were we missing a screw or two, but raising our bed would mean David would fall from a much higher distance if he was on it while he didn't have his own crib.


Extremely long post, I know. But I was just in the sharing mode. (:

We all have goofy pictures from building. The final result will be coming up soon!