there, i fixed it

Friends, we have moved every bed and dresser in this house this week. We really wanted to move Henry upstairs, but we were pretty sure he wouldn't enjoy having his own room after sharing with us for so long. But we ran into a problem: Neither Liam nor Max was willing to have his own room, either. The solution? Bunk beds. So on Black Friday afternoon, after the place had been cleared out, we headed to our local big box store to get an inexpensive but surprisingly well-crafted and sturdy set. We got it home and into the house (barely -- that thing weighs a ton!), but we still had to dismantle both twin beds upstairs and haul them down to the basement (where they will live until one of the boys decides he wants his own room after all), then haul the new bunk bed upstairs and assemble it, then dismantle Henry's crib downstairs, haul it upstairs, and reassemble it -- all with the "help" of three very eager boys.

The ceiling in the boys' bedroom is slanted, so I searched high and low for a short bunk bed, to no avail, but we thought it would be fine if we just scooted it out to the middle where the ceiling is higher. But once we got it assembled, we decided that just wouldn't do. So really, at that point, what choice did we have but to haul in a saw, jack the thing up, and chop off six inches at the bottom? None, really. So that's what we did Saturday afternoon. For a while there, we had most of the bed up on blocks, much like a car in a yard -- except that we used the boys' wooden building blocks.

Eventually, the bed was successfully shortened, and there was much rejoicing. Honestly. Can't you tell how much Max is rejoicing?

I won't bore you with any more details, except to say that we got new bedroom furniture (finally, we are adults with an actual headboard!) so we had to move all the dressers and bed and nightstands out of our room and get everything arranged once the new stuff got here on Monday. One good thing is that it forced me to deal with going through my closet and the boys' clothes and weed out stuff we don't use. It's all done now, and everything is looking great. And hopefully this is the last time we have to move any furniture for a nice long while!