The moment that you have all been waiting for is finally here, the final installation in the "Getting the Nursery Ready Saga"! Now, I know you were all expecting it later this summer, but we were able to cut a few corners and get it all ready by the middle of May instead. Yesterday we got the word that both the crib and the dresser were ready for pickup from Babies 'R Us. Now before I go on any further I have to give a big thank you (otherwise known as a "shout out" to our younger generation) to both sets of Baby Pistachio's grandparents. It was because of their thoughtfulness and generosity that we were able to purchase both the crib and dresser well before Baby Pistachio makes an official appearance. So now on to the story...
As you may or may not know Amy drives a Nissan Sentra and I drive a Honda Accord, neither of which is even remotely close to being able to haul either of these two gigantic pieces of furniture from the store. So we called Amy's supervisor Beth (who supervises Amy so she can get her license to practice social work in the near future) who had offered up a bigger vehicle and her husband Mike to help us out. Now there had apparently been a slight miscommunication between Amy and I as I was under the impression that they had a pickup truck and apparently they only had a station wagon. They were still pretty sure that it would work so we went with it. Now, upon arriving at the store we then met our store associate "helper" who was this short lady of about 60 who informed us that she had been doing this for 20 years and there was no way either of these boxes were fitting in a station wagon. Well, with the four of us being "newbies" in this furniture moving business, we decided to give it a shot anyway. Now I won't lie, getting the dresser in was a squeeze and a half. I again was misinformed and thought that the dresser would require assembly, but instead they just padded the fully assembled dresser which made for a gigantic box. We had just enough room in the back seat, but it got temporarily stuck on the wheel wells which made us sweat a bit, but nothing that a little jamming and shoving couldn't fix. The crib came in this thin square box (disassembled) so we just stuck that on the hood (with a bit of rope of course) and hit the road. Once we got to our place Mike and I got the lovely job of carrying these things up our very steep and narrow stairs. I gotta admit, it wasn't a whole lot of fun, especially when the dresser box could barely make the turn to get into the baby room (I had a flashback to our move-in day just about a year ago when my dad and I thought we could get a couch up the stairs and proceeded to jam a hole into the ceiling with it instead). After doing this I realized how ridiculous my original idea was (though it would have made for a very entertaining blog). My original plan was to just rent a truck on my own and carry the boxes by myself. Makes perfect sense that someone can just pick up a dresser by themselves and carry it up a flight of stairs. And sadly I just finished my master's degree, I guess it takes a while for that college education to pay it's dividends.
Now came the part I had really been dreading: assembling the crib. I've heard plenty of horror stories about this lovely task, but again my uneducated brain thought it should be no problem for me to attempt on my own. Obviously I wouldn't do what those other stupid people did...
Well, I have to say that it actually was pretty easy. I think they must have made some crazy good improvements to the crib building process because it was harder to get the thing out of the box than it was to put it together (actually getting the dresser out of the box was the hardest part). So after about 2 hours (half of which was devoted to trash cleanup) we now are the proud owners of a fully assembled crib and dresser/changing table!! Amy took up her usual position as supervisor during this process and did a fantastic job as well! No injuries and completed in record time, so I guess now she can put herself up for an award or something:)
So thus ends the "Getting the Nursery Ready" saga. But you may want to wait until all the credits roll, there may just be a hint of a 4th installment sometime in the future... you just never know.
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