they are here

The bunk beds made it! We got all SEVEN boxes Wednesday morning. The delivery company called late (9:30ish) on Tuesday night and said they would be here by 8am. I persuaded T to go to school an hour late so he could assist if need be. We were told that they would bring all the boxes to our door but it turned out that they would only bring them to the first dry area within our building; so they left all the boxes in our mail room! I would have been in a big mess if T would not have stayed home. Some of the boxes weighed over 100 lbs. Once T got all the boxes in our home he was off to school. In the afternoon we started to put together the beds (around 3:30) and finally finished around 6:30. After beginning to open the boxes we realized that TWO of the boxes were not ours! They belonged to a couple in Edina (parts of a 1,000 bottle wine rack system!) and we were missing two of our packages. Arrrgghh! Are you kidding me? We waited this long to get the beds and now we are missing pieces. Luckily, the boxes we are missing were not crucial to the construction of the beds. We are missing the boxes that contain the ‘slat’ that goes under the mattress. The beds are completely unsafe and unusable so we had to put all 3 kids in N’s room with their old toddler beds in the hopes of being able to keep them off the new beds. N was so excited to have new bedroom guests that her 8 o’clock bedtime turned into a 9:30 bedtime. The big kids were sleeping by about 8:30 but little N was just too excited! Now we will have to wait and see how long it takes for us to get these other two boxes!? Why can’t things ever be easy around here?