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bunk bed

Friday 2 July 2004

During our Truckee-Donner family get-together both Isaac and Lila really enjoyed the bunk beds found at the mountain house. While Lila never actually slept in it, Isaac did for three of the four nights we were away from our house. The kids had so much fun that I decided - the first morning back - to get the kids a bunk bed of their very own.

I searched the 'net for options, and found the best compromise in compactness, cost, and style seemed to be at IKEA. I opted to go over the Bay Bridge to Emeryville rather than the longer drive to East Palo Alto.

Here you seem my car loaded down with the two boxes which together hold one Tromsö bed. They hung about six inches (15 cm) over the right edge of the car. I tied them in place with some of the free twine the store provides. Staying under the speed limit of the bridge would avoid having the boxes attempt to go airborne (I hoped).

Here's how the whole thing looked from the left rear. Yep, you read that license plate right: GOT KILT?

Just as I was about to drive away I'm surprized by Dziadziu and Sofia, arriving in their car. They were in the neighborhood, having returned the laptop that sister Felicia left in their car, so a quick stop for dark bread was in order. I showed them the packages, and the space left for me, and with a couple of hugs, off I went, back to San Francisco.

At home, with the kids and Rose at a playground, I assembled the bunk beds, moved around an apothecary cabinet and a bookcase (and their contents), herded the beads Lila has scattered all over, vacuumed the carpets, and juggled the various phone calls.

The family returns, and we determine that Isaac's eye is merely irritated and not pink-eye. Then I slip off to Dreams, a store from which I purchased a bed of mine years ago. Good karma results in us getting an upgrade to a better class of mattress than we'd considered getting. And again it's all strapped to the convertible.

Rose was ready with the digital camera; here I am returning home.

And I had to wrestle the twin-sized mattresses into the house, a task much easier than the wrestling of the very heavy bunk bed boxes.

The task wasn't done yet, of course. We don't have any twin sheets, and certainly nothing to entice a minor to break a comfortable habit like a family bed. (I'm of two minds on this; I will miss having the little ones with us.) So we run out to a local department store and get Spongebob Squarepants sheets for Isaac, pink sheets with kitty cats for Lila.

While I'm clearing away all the cardboard packing from the bed, and the yards of plasting covering for the mattresses, Rose captures Lila playing on the top bunk.

Update: two days later, on 4 July 2004, both kids are sleeping in the bunk bed. Neither of them went down easily; Lila wanted me to stay with her on the bottom bunk until she fell asleep, Isaac wound up falling asleep in the family bed (slight regression) instead of the bunk bed, as he has for the last two days. Never a dull moment around here :-)

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