We have a Crib

After a goodly long ordeal, we finally have a crib in which to place our baby. Long story made short, the one we had picked out in early December was going to take about 8 weeks to hew from a single hunk of sequoia. 12 weeks go by before we call to check in on what certainly must be the most cared for piece of baby furniture ever made, only to be told it would be another 3 weeks. 3 weeks later we call back and are told that the truck will be leaving sometime next week. We call back the next week to hear that the company is “temporarily closed”

A few days later we read in the Boston herald that Boston Baby has stiffed about 35 families with unfilled orders, and the owner has skipped town. Thankfully, American Express is not going to hold anybody accountable for undelivered goods, but we were still without a crib. Our literature tells us she starts to understand her environment around 2 months, so we wanted to get her in her own room around that time. With a now shortened window, we ran out to Babies R, Us (the Wal-Mart of the stroller set) and grabbed whatever they had in stock. It still took over two weeks to get us the crib, but it finally came today.

Very happy with it, but we now have to figure out how to place 15 things (and four shades of wood) in a 10’ x 8’ room. There are the wall decorations to consider, and a lighting scheme that needs fine tuning, but on this, her first day in her new room, she’s already taken a nap.


This helps assuage the violent consumer indignation we were otherwise enjoying.