Make My Life Easier Thursday: Twin Bunk Bed
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My kids are in that magic window where they want to be together so they share a room (and I get a home office!).
This well-designed bunk bed from Crate & Barrel is perfect for smaller or low-ceilinged rooms. This bunk is actually more like a loft plus rolling bed combo. The lower bed has hidden casters for easy in-and-out (I find it makes it easier to change the sheets), and the incorporated ladder saves even more space. And, once the kids no longer want to share a room, I can just roll the lower bed into another bedroom.
This bunk bed from Crate & Barrel Kids is $1,798. It comes in white and charcoal. It’s also available in several other versions, including one with a right ladder and a twin over full.
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Recommendations for kindergarten-sized backpacks and best lunchboxes/lunch packing equipment? My 4.5 year old is starting TK this fall. I bought her two of those bento-style lunch boxes but is that all she needs? I’ve never had to pack her a lunch before since she’s primarily been home with our nanny, so this is all new to me!
i’m losing it. DH is traveling again for work and last night kiddo was up from 9-10:30, at 3:30, and then at 5:30 for the night. these wake ups were likely due to the covid vaccine, but same kid woke up 5+ times on Monday night, so it’s not just that. i can’t just bring her into bed with me for various reasons, and thank goodness right now i’m WFH bc i can use my commute time to go back to sleep for an hour, but i have to go back to the office in two weeks and i’m in a role where i’m in a lot of 1:1 in-person meetings where i have to pay close attention to what the other person is saying. i am someone who needs sleep to function and this is worse than going back to work when my babies were 3 months old bc at least then it was only 1x per night and people were a bit more understanding. i barely feel safe driving on such little sleep, i honestly don’t know how residents and doctors do it. just need a space to vent. it’s like every time i make progress on developing an exercise routine, or eating healthy, or getting personal things done, there is a night of no sleep or illness that derails everything.
Tips for evening routine for a Kindergartener who will not be napping and thus need to go up for bath around 6. Also have a toddler who because he still naps, doesn’t need to go up as early, but for practical purposes, probably going to have him go up for bath at the same time.
You can have a very similar effect for much cheaper with a lofted IKEA Kura bed and an extra mattress on slats underneath it. My kids’ room has slanted ceilings, so a regular bunk bed can’t be pushed up against the wall and two twin beds would take up a lot of the floor space.
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I think I need a reality check on 4-5 yos/normal range of behavior. My 4.5 yo is normally pretty good, and not having any issues at daycare. But, he had some pretty bad behavior after vacation when my out-of-town sister was staying with us. I wrote a lot off as being overstimulated, off schedule, tired, etc. But now it’s been a few weeks and some of it is continuing. Ex – wetting his pants when he had to walk home instead of ride in the wagon (we’re talking 1/6 mile, because he kept hitting little sister, not a hike by any means); yesterday he and little sister cut their hair; and today he sprayed water on the kitchen floor from the faucet sprayer thing (took several towels to mop it up, so he held it down for a while, and he’s done it before). Am I overreacting?
How do people handle sick time in work from home jobs? I switched from a billable hours job where sick time was basically irrelevant to a much chiller government job. Obviously if I’m laid up for the whole day watching Netflix I’ll take sick time. But what do you do when you’re working at home with a sick kid and the whole day is a hodgepodge? Take half a day or a few hours or figure it comes out in the wash if you’re getting your work done?
Has anyone refinished an attic? We have a smallish older house (built in 1920) with a pretty spacious but totally unfinished attic. Now that we have 3 kids we were thinking of trying to refinish it, potentially even adding a bathroom (currently we have 1.5 bathrooms). I will note we would DEFINITELY get someone else to do it, we are not DIY people. But I have no sense of the cost, the time it would take, even how to start thinking about it. So, any attic-refinishing stories are welcome!
My kid will be entering first grade and for the first time will have to be out of the house at a specific time. They also will need to eat breakfast, get dressed, pack backpack with lunch, etc. Any tips on how to make this happen smoothly? We enrolled them in a fun camp for the next month to try out these routines and, wow, now that the novelty has worn off, this morning was a mess – kid wanted to sleep longer, moved slower than I thought was humanly possible, every task took so long! It ended up frustrating all involved. I want mornings to be pleasant (don’t we all?)
I missed the thread yesterday about favorite nursing and pumping bras, but I have to recommend the Bravado Clip and Pump Hands-Free bra attachment. It converts any clip-down nursing bra into a pumping bra, so no need to buy pumping bras. Pumping sucks enough as it is, no need to add to it by having to change out your bra before you get started!