Delivery truck

Ok, I started this a few weeks ago, it took me a while to remember all that was said that day. I tried remembering it correctly, I think this is a pretty good account of what happened that day :-)


Last week when I was visiting at my Grandparents house one of my Aunt's asked if I would like a loft bed for one of my kids. Her brother's daughter was getting rid of it and asked if we would want it. We went over and looked at it and I decided it should fit in the kids room and we would take it. It wouldn't fit into my van so my Aunt and Uncle offered to bring it to my house for me.

There was some preparation that needed to be done before the delivery could be made. I was the only one in the house who knew what was going on so my prep had to be done on the sly. The biggest thing that would need to be done was moving William's race car bed out of it's spot because that is where the new bed was going to go. I would also need to vacuum that spot as dog hair seems to find it's way under, behind, and around beds in our house. Now there are a few reasons I would pull Williams bed out of their room and into the play room, sometimes I take pictures of the kids and I use this wall for a backdrop, and sometimes I just move it to clean the dog hair out. So the kids thougth nothing of it when I moved his bed and vacuumed and didn't put the bed back.

Yesterday was the delivery day, I had the house clean enough for company, I finished all my prep work right after Ed left the house for work and the kids and I were waiting for our company to arrive. The kids enjoyed playing in the race car bed in the play room, I removed the mattress so it made a nice little area for them to put their animals.

My Aunt and Uncle drove up and were here mid morning. The kids thought they were just visiting, they didn't know anything else was going on. My Uncle and I were surveying the kids room and thinking about how to get the three pieces (already assembled) into the house.

While in the kids room my Uncle made a comment about the room being big enough for him to move into.

My Aunt said: "I've lived with him for 30 years, I think that's enough, I think I'll leave him here with you for a while."

Natalie's eyes nearly popped out of her head

Aunt: "Would that be OK? If I leave him here and he moves in with you?"

Natalie & William: "Yes, that would be fine."

Uncle: "I think there is enough room in your room, can I stay in there with you?"

Natalie: "yes, there is enough room."

William: "Yep she's sick of him, she had him for 30 years so he's movin in with us."

Now during this Natalie was a little suspicious but she was going along with it. Then Uncle pulled out the clincher.

Uncle to me: "There's enough room, it will fit, let's go out to the truck and bring it in."

Natalie: "Bring what in?"

Uncle: "My bed, if I'm going to live here, I need some place to sleep, so I brought my bed with me and it should fit right into the room."

Now Natalie's little eyes really bugged out of her head. She started following us around, talking a mile a minute (I wonder where she gets that from) as we were moving the pieces into the house.

Each time we would get another piece in the room, Uncle would stop and make plans with her.

Uncle: "So we can put my bed right here, and your bed will stay there, do you think William's bed will fit in here? I think it will, but will you be able to open your dresser drawers if his bed is there?"

Natalie: "No William is going to sleep in the playroom, we are leaving his bed out there so it's just you and me in this room."

Uncle: "OH then we have plenty of room in here if it's just the two of us."

William and Aunt were were doing a 100 piece puzzle. William knew where he was sleeping so there was no need for him to be involved any more.

Natalie: "But I get up REALLY early in the morning, at 6:00, so I'll try to be quiet and not wake you up when I get up."

Uncle: "Oh I'm at work at 6:00 in the morning so I get up at 5:00, SOOOO I'll try to be quiet and not wake you up, when I get up."

Natalie: "5:00 THAT'S REALLY EARLY!"

We got all three pieces into the room. The "closet" and shelves are up against two walls (the corner), this will be the head of the bed and the desk area is closest to the door of the bedroom and this will be the foot of the bed. It had to be done this way because the latter to climb up into the bed is on the desk side. We put the bed on top of the two pieces and Natalie and Uncle started making more plans.

I had a step stool in the room so Uncle sat down on it at the desk. Natalie stood right next to him as he was figuring out where to put his things.

Uncle: "I can do my work right here, and I should have enough room for my cloths over in these shelves."

Uncle: "I think this stool is to high, my knees aren't under the desk. Do you have something else I can sit on?"

Natalie: "Yes, we have chairs that will fit, they go to our other table, the small one William and I use, but you can use one in here. What color do you want red or blue?"

Uncle didn't hear the color choices so Natalie just got a chair. I have to give a little background here, Natalie and William and Uncle have a running joke at my grandparents house. They have folding chairs there that are pulled out at Christmas dinner when extra seating is needed. There is ONE RED chair in the group of folding chairs and Uncle started that it was his favorite chair when Natalie was little. So now they always "fight" over who gets the red chair. If Natalie sees it first she will go and sit in it and not get up again. Uncle will whine if Natalie gets the chair first to see if she will give it to him. If Uncle sees it he will tell her that he's got the chair and she can't sit in it.

So what do you think Natalie came back with, Yep the RED chair.

Natalie: "I got you the red chair cause I know red is your favorite color!"

Uncle: "Since you got me the red chair, (in a hushed voice) you can use my desk when I'm not here."

Natalie got so excited over this she promised to keep the desk clean and she wouldn't mess any of his stuff up.

Uncle: "You know I still need to go home and get my cloths, I didn't have enough room in the truck to bring them and my bed."

Natalie: "You know I thought you were kidding around at first when you said you were moving in here, but then when I saw you brought you bed with you, then I knew it was true!"

Now we were trying not to laugh, it was so cute that Natalie was so excited, now we needed to find a nice little way to let her know that Uncle was joking and he couldn't really come to live with us.

Aunt: "Oh I'm not sure about this now, I think I may want to take him back home with me. Would that be OK, if he came home with me? BUT we will leave the bed."

Me: "Natalie, who should sleep in the bed if Uncle isn't going to live here?"

William: "Me, that can be my bed!"

Me: "No William your not old enough to have a bed that high off the ground."

William: "Oh Man!"

Uncle: "Natalie, would you like to have this as your bed?"

Natalie: SOOOOOO EXCITED "Yes"

Natalie finally figured out that this was HER new bed and desk. She loves it, she has her shelves all organized and the draw with her school supplies. She has now done her 1st day of homework at the desk, and she makes her bed every morning. She just loves it.
We all enjoyed our visit that day.

Thank you to Aunt & Uncle for bringing the bed up and providing so much entertainment that day!

As Aunt & Uncle were leaving William grabbed a box of jello and ran out and gave it to Uncle.