Josh and Becca Thrap and Family

So this last weekend just before Jacob’s soccer game the girl’s dresser busted–big time. It was the fourth to fall apart on us in the last year or so and it was the last straw for Josh. he wanted to replace it right away, and NO more hand-me-down, garage sale, or Goodwill dressers! So after Jacob’s game we ran to Homemakers in Des Moines with about an hour and a half before we had to get back to take Cameron to his first birthday party of a school friend. Any of you that may have shopped with us before will know that and hour and a half is not a lot of time for us to make a decision on how to spend our money best. But, just when we were about to give up (again, because we’ve been going there and other places for months looking at furniture but not finding–I’ll be honest, a good enough deal–it’s emotionally difficult to go from resale to retail prices) we stumbled across a bed that had been there all along and we had seen several times and just never realized it’s potential to meet our needs. You may be thinking…a bed? Wasn’t it was a dresser you needed? And right you would be, however, we have been needing to solve two bedroom problems, one, where to put all the clothes, and two where to put the sleeping girls, because one dresser was not fitting all of the clothes for both girls (which irritated Josh) and more than one dresser…and in some cases even one dresser wouldn’t fit in the tiny room with both the girls’ beds. Not to mention the fact that Elena is about to outgrow the crib anyway and there is NO way we could fit two twin beds in their room and Elise refused to sleep on the bed she had and kept ending up in a pile on the floor–which is unacceptable because then there is NO room to walk and the room is always a mess and her bed takes up the most space but it wasn’t even being used! So. We stumbled across a bed that could accommodate both girls and allow us to get rid of Elise’s bulky bed and Elena’s crib, leaving room for TWO dressers WHICH we had just seen on sale! Now, the dressers are NOT our taste at all, but they are good sized and solid wood construction with sturdy drawer-bottoms and dove-tailing etc. and they were cheaper than anything else we’d seen for that kind of quality. Plus, they fit in the room and match the bed. So while Josh rushed back to the van to start buckling in kids I placed and paid for our order and we made it back for Cameron’s party with two minutes to spare! (And on another subject, Homemaker’s has free cookies and lemonade for their customers and Josh made it out without eating any and I only had one! The snickerdoodles are just so tasty!) Well, it has felt like forever (since I started this post?) that we’ve been waiting for the delivery of our new furniture, but today was the day! Of course today was also the day it had to start pouring rain. But now the girl’s have a completely new set-up and their room is clean and ALL of their clean clothes are put away and the bedding is all on the bed and there is even room for Elise’s Barbie castle (which all four kids have been playing with since they came home from school today)!
These aren’t awesome pictures, but the room is too small for me to really get good shots. BY the way, I’ve heard that sometimes the pictures that I post here are really big and can’t be seen all at once on the screen. My computer always seems to show them to me as being about 4×6 size, so how many of you are experiencing a problem with my pictures being too large? If it’s many of you, I’ll try a different system to resize my photos. Please respond if this applies to you.