Step 1: Decide that maybe two and four year olds should share a room to make space for future sibling.
Step 2: Decide that was a dumb idea...Baby can just sleep in our room indefinitely.
Step 3: Change minds again...the kids would love sleeping in the same room. Let's do it!
Step 4: Pshaw...no reason to uproot everyone. Baby's not due for five more months.
Step 5: Well, maybe we'll do bunk beds! That could be fun...and what a space-saver!
Step 6: Nevermind. We don't need any more emergency room visits when children decide to leap from top bunk.
Step 7: But wait! If they have to share a room, there may be SHOPPING (!!!) involved...kids WILL share room!
Step 8: At 7 pm on a Friday, move Garrett's bed into Laura's room. Pray for SILENCE. And sleep.
Step 9: Spend $125, and 12 hours of your Saturday, reorganizing / remodeling children's closets...if they share a room, they must share a beautiful and well organized closet as well. What's that you say? Something about obsessive compulsive behavior? I have no idea what you are speaking of.
Step 10: Admire kids' new shared room and deliciously organized closet. Ahhhhh. It is good. Behold the beauty. And the symmetry. Symmetry makes me happy.
Step 15: Change minds at last minute and put the bed in Garrett's old room instead. Who decided that we should be trusted with real, live children????
Step 16: Husband reads assembly directions. They advise that with "two people, assembly time is approximately one hour". Rock on!
Step 17: Three and half hours, two children crashed on the couch, and thirty six swear words later, bunk beds are ready for action.
Step 18: Attempt to wake children and get their reaction to their new beds...Laura falls asleep standing up, and Garrett zonks out on the potty. We're delighted that they are so thrilled. It's awesome how hard work really pays off.
Step 19: Wake to crying two year old who has climbed to top bunk and is demanding to be rescued.
Step 21: Pick up children from sitter. Explain Garrett's use of "damn" to sitter.
Step 22: Tell Daddy he needs to watch his language, even if he is trapped underneath a half built bunk bed at 11:30 pm and has lost the last two screws he needs to finish the job.
Step 23: Give "Bunk Bed Safety" lecture. For all the good it will do:
Step 24: Embark on Night Two of Project Bunk Bed / Laura's First Time Out Of a Crib. Garrett refuses to sleep in top bunk and makes himself a camp out on the floor.
Step 2: Decide that was a dumb idea...Baby can just sleep in our room indefinitely.
Step 3: Change minds again...the kids would love sleeping in the same room. Let's do it!
Step 4: Pshaw...no reason to uproot everyone. Baby's not due for five more months.
Step 5: Well, maybe we'll do bunk beds! That could be fun...and what a space-saver!
Step 6: Nevermind. We don't need any more emergency room visits when children decide to leap from top bunk.
Step 7: But wait! If they have to share a room, there may be SHOPPING (!!!) involved...kids WILL share room!
Step 8: At 7 pm on a Friday, move Garrett's bed into Laura's room. Pray for SILENCE. And sleep.
Step 9: Spend $125, and 12 hours of your Saturday, reorganizing / remodeling children's closets...if they share a room, they must share a beautiful and well organized closet as well. What's that you say? Something about obsessive compulsive behavior? I have no idea what you are speaking of.
Step 10: Admire kids' new shared room and deliciously organized closet. Ahhhhh. It is good. Behold the beauty. And the symmetry. Symmetry makes me happy.
Step 11: Laura learns to climb out of crib. Time to get her a big girl bed. What to do?
Step 12: Read Sunday paper. Find an ad for bunk beds for $197. Wooo! Go purchase bunk beds!
Step 13: At 7 pm on Monday, crazy wife demands that husband go pick up the beds already! Husband arrives home at 8 pm with one unassembled bunk bed. 8 pm is normally bedtime for the kids, but like ANYONE will be sleeping until that darn bed is ready.
Step 15: Change minds at last minute and put the bed in Garrett's old room instead. Who decided that we should be trusted with real, live children????
Step 16: Husband reads assembly directions. They advise that with "two people, assembly time is approximately one hour". Rock on!
Step 17: Three and half hours, two children crashed on the couch, and thirty six swear words later, bunk beds are ready for action.
Step 18: Attempt to wake children and get their reaction to their new beds...Laura falls asleep standing up, and Garrett zonks out on the potty. We're delighted that they are so thrilled. It's awesome how hard work really pays off.
Step 19: Wake to crying two year old who has climbed to top bunk and is demanding to be rescued.
Step 20: Must go substitute teach for the day...drop kids with sitter.
Step 21: Pick up children from sitter. Explain Garrett's use of "damn" to sitter.
Step 22: Tell Daddy he needs to watch his language, even if he is trapped underneath a half built bunk bed at 11:30 pm and has lost the last two screws he needs to finish the job.
Step 23: Give "Bunk Bed Safety" lecture. For all the good it will do:
Step 24: Embark on Night Two of Project Bunk Bed / Laura's First Time Out Of a Crib. Garrett refuses to sleep in top bunk and makes himself a camp out on the floor.I'll let Garrett and Laura sum up my feelings on the whole damn mess:
Labels: How not to parent
16 Comments:
Hey Stacey! I came across your blog because I was completely bored and kept clickin' NEXT BLOG! LOL. I'm so glad I did! Your site is so funny! Your kids are adorable and those are the cleanist, most organized closets I've EVER SEEN! :-)
At least your daughter sleeps in her own room...my 2 year old has spent a grand total of three hours in her bed. It's getting a bit annoying.
The closet looks great, I love a clean closet.
Love the closets. I think that shall be my project for this weekend :)
Love the pouty pics at the end. Don't worry, they will LOVE those beds once they get used to them. As a kid I always wanted bunk beds.
Oh, and the closets, please tell me they won't stay that organized for ever. I will feel inferior.
I would like to know what the closets look like right now. Are they still that organized? Cuz, mine...wouldn't last 5 minutes with my kids. We got bunk beds this weekend too, so far, so good!
Hope it gets better!
My goodness! Bunk Beds rock and I'm jealous of your organizational skills! Fun times to come, I can feel it!
We have those bunk beds too but only the bottom is built. We still have our daughter in her toddler bed. You've inspired me, though, to demand that my husband build the bunks this weekend. Not only does it look FUN but think of all the space we'll save!!! :)
By the way, I love the closet...but where are all the toys? Please show me how you organize those.
Only thirty-six curse words in three and a half hours? Boy, you guys have good self-control.
Get out your calendar girl and pencil my closets (read: messy as hell)in for ASAP. Did you use Laura's closet or Garrett's?
I love it!!
I just hope it works out for you guys. (I too HAD to have a crib set up for Jack before he was born. He slept with us for nearly a year, like his brother before him.)
See....this is another reason to blog EVERY DAY. We could have talked you out of this. We experienced ones could have easily explained that 2yr olds with 4yr old siblings actually think that they are also 4yrs old and will climb up the ladder. We could have talked you out of it...if only you'd blogged it. ;) LOL But at this point, all I can do is shake my head, giggle and say, "Good luck!" teeheehee
Ah, bunk beds. Those were the days!
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Hahahahahaha!!!
They are so funny. Did you teach them to do the exact same face or is it just in their blood?
And bunk beds? You really do want to spend more time in the ER, don't you? Honey, McDreamy and Alex are both FAKE. They aren't real. And even if they were, they live in Seattle, not Missouri.
We've had closet shelving (unassembled) in our basement for over FIVE years now. My socks & underwear just roll around on the floor with no home to call their own.
(Actually - that was true up till last week - now they're divided into nice lululemon bags. Funky paper bags. But BAGS nonetheless Still on the floor though.)
My heart skipped a beat when I saw those closets of yours... Seriously.
Jason laughed and laughed at this....then asked when I was going to redo our messing closets.
This post totally made my I-feel-like-I-am-gonna-die day. So, thank you.
We did a similar bed building extravaganza when we bought our bunkbeds. Although, my kids didn't fall asleep on the couch (sigh), they just watched WAY too much Dora. We haven't set their beds up as bunkbeds (just two matching twin beds) yet... I can't can imagine what two two year olds would do with a TOP BUNK. If they can flip their mattress.... anything is possible.
P.S. Will you come and organize my closets? Please? And my pantry? It's booby-trapped.
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