Slowly, slowly.
For ages I was stressed about the barn door for the baby room. As soon as we booked the job for January, I felt a massive weight life off my shoulders.
But that hasn’t been all. Remember it’s been 9 years since I’ve had a newborn, and so we had to think REALLY hard about where we had stashed certain things.
The monitors. The baby chair. The baby bouncer.
How did we get the play mat to play music? Where were the batteries located?
How the hell did I close up this pram? And where was my oh-so-important coffee cup holder that went alongside the pram?
Where was the baby bottle steriliser? Was there even YouTube instructions on how to use it?
Thankfully for me, all of these things have been solved in one way or another. Most importantly, that coffee cup holder for the pram was FOUND. 🤣☕ (Priorities).
The monitors work.
The baby chair is in the midst of a DEEP CLEAN.
The baby bouncer looks perfect and is just waiting for a cute bottom to fill it out.
The old play mat plays music, and we worked out where the battery compartment was after an extensive google search and then an accidental search and find on our own. 🤦♀️
Hubbie helped me close the pram up… I still need to practice that one.
The coffee cup holder is waiting.
And there are YouTube video instructions on using the portable steriliser.
BUT… one little, but big thing, was bugging me BIG TIME.
The tripod.
Why would I be troubled over a tripod? Well this tripod, originally used for Hubbie’s camera oh-so-many years ago, it actually housed the monitor we used for baby girl’s room.
There is a screw underneath the monitor that can easily fit onto the tripod, and then by tilting the tripod up and down and extending the legs to the perfect height, you can get the monitor at the perfect position so that it’s watching baby from the best view possible.
This was our Godsend. We had no nearby furniture where we could place the monitor on in baby girl’s old room, and in this room now, baby’s room, the same applies.
We needed the tripod. But where was it?
I looked in many places, but ultimately I knew that it was in a place I hadn’t ventured in since we moved house, 6 years ago… I know this because I have gone through all cupboards and wardrobes of our house, cleaning out and decluttering many times, so I would have known if I had stumbled across said tripod.
I hadn’t stumbled across it.
It had to be in a really weird, odd place, if we just didn’t go there, AT ALL. After cleaning out the shed yesterday of some old stuff, and then Hubbie assuring me it wasn’t there or in the garage, I told Hubbie the above (“I haven’t come across it at all during our 6 years here”) he came up with the most perfect idea for where it could be.
And he was bloody right.
It was with the portable cot. Not zipped within it like he had suggested, but sitting on top of the large bag, camouflaged against other grey and black items, accessories for the portacot, that stray pram coffee cup (that I knew was there!) and then of course, this folded up tripod.
All along. But the portacot was so big, I never picked it up, even whilst folded. That was Hubbie’s job, and so he literally would pick it up, plop it here, and then there, and then wherever else it had to be stored…
All the while, the tripod sitting pretty amongst it all.
I was SO HAPPY! I can’t tell you how happy it’s made me to find this tripod, just another piece in the puzzle of having all of baby’s stuff come together.
Another weight, lifted and floating away…
There’s just one more thing though. We need a wardrobe for baby’s room.
Watch this (baby) space…
carcrashgratitude 