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I am so angry right now. VENT
I know it's just PG hormones..... raging... but OMG, I am like, hysterical right now. I am SO angry at my kids I want to SCREAM the house down!!!!!!
We bought our boys a bunk bed.... a NICE bunk bed. This sucker after all was said and done was about $800. It's the kind with stairs instead of a ladder, and to the left of the stairs is a set of 4 drawers. We need to conserve as much space as possible so this was a great option for us.
My youngest, 3 - EVERY FREAKING CHANCE THIS CHILD GETS - he takes his FREAKING cars (the big kind) and "drives" them on the stairs. He has put countless GOUGES and scratches in the wood already. We haven't even had this bunk bed a MONTH yet!!!! He does it EVERY opportunity he can when I'm not looking. I make EVERY attempt to keep him OUT of the room, yet every day, there is still a new, fresh gouge in the wood. The stairs look.... nasty at this point.
So I'm already mad about that. Right before bed, I found another gouge. I was angry. I tried explaining to my son NOT to drive his cars (er, rather HIT his cars into the wood), but he is autistic and he has limited understanding, so I'm not sure what I said got through. He's not majorly autistic, just mildly.
Anyway.... so they go to bed. It's been a few hours, and my 3 year old gets out of bed and wanders into my room. He wanted his diaper changed. So fine, I do that.... and I put him back to bed.
As I'm leaving the room, I just happened to glance at the drawers on the side of the bed. Something didn't look right with the bottom drawer.
I go to open it up - and the thing was broken into 3 different pieces!!!!!!!! I swear fire was shooting out of my ears!!! I am so angry. I tried talking to my 3 year old, who doesn't understand, and has trouble communicating (he has gotten significantly better, but he still has a way to go, particularly with receptive language). So no help there. My 5 year old is sound asleep so I left him..... but OMG..... between the gouges in the wood, and now a BROKEN drawer.... on a BRAND NEW FREAKING BED (it's not even a MONTH old yet!!!) I am SO upset it's ridiculous.....
I don't know what I'm looking for.... commiseration? someone to tell me I'm overreacting? I don't even know what to do other than just sit here and bawl my freaking eyes out about $800 FLUSHED down the drain!!!! I doubt the furniture company will send me a new drawer - I'm pretty sure I'd have to buy a whole new bed! And I don't have any sort of extended warranty - I didn't even know they OFFERED it until my mom had asked me (I vented about the gouges the other day) - and realized they never even offered one to me!!
UGH..... I've calmed down a little bit since starting this.... maybe even calmed down a lot, but the tears are still flowing... and I am SO freaking angry that my kids have managed to ruin a brand new bed that's not even a MONTH old yet..... un-freaking-believable!!!!
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Re: I am so angry right now. VENT
you are scaring me. Seriously.
You dont spend that kind of money on a piece of furniture for kids with out KNOWING that it WILL get damaged. They are kids.
you need to calm the eff down. It is a material object. And you should have bought crap from Ikea if you are going to spaz about this kind of stuff.
Ok so I've had a few minutes to breath and I am doing better.... I really was having an hysterical moment there.... and I shared it with all of you (sorry!). I would so totally delete if it wasn't a faux pas to do around here. I would have just vented this all to DH if he were here, but he's on duty and not home right now.... and half my friends would not appreciate a phone call at this time.
I'm breathing.... I'm breathing. Ugh, my little destructos.
I guess this solidifies DH's argument that getting new couches in the near future is NOT a good idea (apparently new furniture is a magnet for getting ruined by kids?) 
Still, if anyone wants to commiserate..... feel free....
~L~
Mommy to 2 boys, ages 7 and 5 and a little girl who is 1.5
ditto
Look at it this way. The kids can still sleep in the bed, right? And, they are obviously highly amused by the bed. So, the bed is doing its job.
Yeah, it looks worse than it did a month ago, but frankly it was going to look like that sooner or later.
If you have kids or pets, buy cheap.
Whoa. Did I write this?? LOL! :-)
Love ya', Mel!
And to the OP, you needs meds. Strong ones. In high dosages. PRONTO. Plus counseling. You are NOT reacting appropriately. you should probably also DD your OP so that it can't be used against you at trial in the near future.
Sheesh.
what they said...
oh my...
another thought...
maybe he's smacking his cars into the bunkbed because (1) not only is he an autistic 3 year old boy, but (2) you are driving him freaking bonkers b/c you are completely nuts, so he vents his frustration with the cars rather than on the nest/bump?
Ok, seriously - I get that I wayyy overreacted and that I needed to be taken down a few notches..... but some of the comments being made are just as douchey as my original post! Stop being a douchenugget, Gibs. I'm so sad that someone on the internets is telling me I'm crazy and need to be medicated based on one post. :tear:
~L~
Mommy to 2 boys, ages 7 and 5 and a little girl who is 1.5
well, you do
Sorry, I'm still stuck on the fact that the furniture store the bunkbed is from is called Badcock.
I'm that way, too. I've just forced myself to quit getting out the vacuum and mop every day. DH constantly forgets something and runs in with shoes on. We have HW. I have two yorkies that bring in a trail of grass, or whatever. I've had to force myself to relax. My house is not as neat and show quality as it used to be. I've decided as long as it's not gross and unclean, then that's okay. It should't be. I have two kids, one on the way, and two dogs. And, a DH, who has to be asked repeatedly to do things, sometimes.
We repainted our LR, DR, and hallway last summer and OMG! if you could see the fingerprints and spills on the walls, especially the main hall connecting the LR and DR. It starts at Blaire's height and goes down. That gets me more than anything, but I'm just living with it. I mean, why bother repainting right now? Natalie is just in the beginning stages of putting dirty hands on the walls.
And, if my Mom mentions the weeds in my front landscaping one more time, I'm going to get the weed killer and show her I know how to use it by spraying it AT HER!
Sorry so long, but thanks, I feel better!
ditto on Badcock.
Perhaps they are trying to break that thing down before they badly injure themselves on it. Why on earth would you buy your autistic 3 year, who you said in another post that his receptive language is 2 years behind and his 5 year old brother bunk beds. Seems pretty dangerous to me.
I'm not having a girl crush , not having a girl crush...
You take my ovaries, I take your yarns.
I think you are overreacting buy like you said its probably pg hormones.
I do agree that knowing your 3yr old is mildly autistic you should have bought cheaper furniture. But in your defense it is NOT easy to find cheap bunk beds...esp the kind with the stairs. I bought my girls a bunk bed with a trundle underneath so they can sleep on the bottom and trundle for now. It was $800 with a 20% off coupon. They put a nice gouge and chipped the white paint of on the front of the trundle. I let it slide because I know they are kids and is going to happen. I did sit them down and explain that this is their big girl bed and that they need to take care of it an be careful not to hit it with toys. I showed them the mark and they themselves were upset it was gouged/chipped. But they are 4 and not autistic so they completely understand.
Is there any sort of mat you could put down on the stairs to protect it and hide the marks at the same time? (like you would put on regular stairs) It would have to be something that would attach so its not a slip/fall hazard.
((hug)) Calm down and try to find a way to fix the drawer.