Sunday, December 4, 2011

Building Bunk Beds

While we were preparing to move east – yep, way back in 2008 – we gave away Andrew’s bed. Ever since then, we have been promising to replace it with something new. In Vero Beach, Andrew slept on a mattress on the floor. We promised to get him a real bed once I started getting paid again. I got a job and we moved to Melbourne, yet Andrew remained on a mattress on the floor.

It wasn’t for a lack of concern or us just breaking our promise. We made a good faith effort to find him a bed. We really liked the idea of bunk beds so he would have more room to play in his room, but bunk beds can be very expensive – at least the ones we looked at were.

Last weekend, while Andrew was at AWANA, Susan and I were aimlessly browsing the aisles at Wal-Mart. We walked through the u-build furniture section and there it was; Andrew’s future bed.

Today, we borrowed the neighbor, and his truck, and went to get it. Andrew and I spent most of the afternoon assembling it. Below is a collection of photos taken during the process.

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