Written by Alison
5 YEARS
AND
2 kids
3 cats
8 sugar gliders
5 moves
4 wards
3 cars
1 motorcycle
6 couches
16 jobs
2 Bachelor degrees
and 10 bottles of ibuprofen later
We're still together!
We would have liked to have gone somewhere fun and to celebrate the big 5 years but with Otto so little still we just couldn't get away. So we took the money we would have used for that and we built a bed! It's big! And we found the plans here.
Oh, Otto. What a sweet boy who loves to eat his hands and hide his precious smile. (I guess this picture doesn't really show anything except me goofing off while Troy worked)
Rockwell was sooooooo helpful of course. We gave him his own special piece of wood to hammer and paint (one of my better ideas).
Troy only trusted me with the drill some of the time...
...So I supervised
Just kidding. I did everything I could do with one hand. Is it just my kids or a stage they go through that they don't ever want to be put down EVER?
Sidebar: we had very little room to work and our neighbors were good sports stepping around our mess. It motivated us to get it done and out of the way quickly
Rocky sportin' his"smock" (another one of my better ideas) and "hat"
Tah-dah! Actually building this saved us money because now we don't have to buy a new mattress like we thought we would have to (who knew it was just the box-spring that was trash? They should have called it cardboard-box-spring). I know some other people have made this bed. I hope they love how theirs turned out as much as we do.
Does it take up the whole room in our tiny apartment? Yes. Yes it does.
Seriously though my favorite part of the whole thing was spending time with my Honey creating something useful together. Believe it or not we work pretty well together. I'm the drive to get it done fast and he's the drive to get it done right and between the two of us we get it done kinda fast and mostly right
P.S. Meet our new Ragdoll cat Harvy.
The story behind Harvy (if anyone is interested) is that- for one- we found out the managers of our apartments don't really care (ask the lady next door who is housing 4 small dogs and 2 large cats) and- for two- I was really getting some baby blues. With Troy being so busy and a new baby I just got lonely and needy and depressed. He's a year old because I needed a companion not another baby. I would have taken Monster back in a HEARTBEAT but since I couldn't we had to start fresh.
He's fun. He follows me around the house and watches me work and waits for me to pet him. He likes Otto but not Rocky.
Another Sidebar: Heidi, if Theron ever lets you get a cat, you should totally go all out and get a Ragdoll. We love him and they hardly shed
