Friday, June 14, 2013

The story of Morgan's bed

Just wanted to share our adventure in trying to find a bed for Morgan. She had still been in the baby crib until this week. We have had a twin bed frame for some time and knew we wanted to transition to this. However, we also knew she needed some kind of protection to not only keep from falling out, but keep her from standing up on the bed, or getting up and roaming around. We had discovered a tent for her crib about a year ago. It was just in the nick of time too. It was during one of the times when she was reacting to one of her seizure meds and she was up all night, screaming. I would sleep on the floor(our concrete floors) next to her, so fearful she would stand up and fall out. Billy had researched and found the crib tent. We called all around and just happened (by the grace of God) to find two at a consignment store in Burnet that a lady had just dropped off the day before. It saved us many, many sleepless nights. So we thought surely there had to be something out there for a twin bed, right? Well, there were only two we could find. One was extremely expensive, the other very reasonable. So we decided to start with the reasonably priced one first. Well, everyone had the same idea and they were on backorder. They kept saying they were coming in, then something would happen. At one point, the ship was held up and couldn't get across to deliver them. Well after 8 months on backorder, we received her new tent to fit over a standard twin mattress. So excited finally! Got it out, took over an hour to put together, then our mattress wouldn't fit in it. We sent back the tent, thinking it was made too short. They sent us another one, still wouldn't fit. We called the mattress company to ask if maybe we had gotten a different size mattress. "It's a standard twin, they are pretty much all the same size". Well, apparently "pretty much" was enough of a difference. With a different standard twin(it was a little thinner) we were good to go. Morgan now has so much more room, it matches the colors of her room, and we can sleep at night knowing she is safe!

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