and we have a crib

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Back in June my parents offered to buy Baby Knight a crib as their gift to him or her. Josh and I spent a few nights looking online for a crib we liked. We wanted a white crib with straight lines, nothing scalloped or ornate. And I didn't want it to be hundreds of dollars!

We found a cute one on Target.com so my parents went ahead and ordered it. I believe the initial order said it would ship in about 4-5 weeks. We waited (not so patiently). My dad called a few times and things "looked" to be in order. Finally after waiting over six weeks my dad called again and politely demanded to know what was going on. The customer service rep still couldn't see anything wrong with our order. Two days later there was an email from Target.com saying our order was delayed indefinitely. Would we like to continue waiting? Uh, no!

That weekend my parents scoured the stores looking for a similar white crib. There were none to be found. Back to the Internet we went and came across another crib that we liked. This time we waited only 2 weeks before finding out the order was canceled. Strike two. This happened to be the weekend that Josh and I were going to Ikea so I thought I would check out the white crib I knew they had. Wouldn't you know it? Not in stock.

Next up, Babies 'R Us had a really cute crib online. Probably my favorite yet... I didn't want to get my hopes up but I thought "third time's a charm". Babies 'R Us promised shipment within 5-7 business days so that would be shipment by August 26th. On the 25th my parents got an email saying the item was no longer available so the order was cancelled. I called the closest store and asked if they could order that specific crib. The very nice saleslady said that they couldn't. To her it looked like a crib they weren't going to carry any longer and they were getting rid of their stock.

By then I was just determined. I really liked that crib. It had a little trundle drawer for underneath, plus converted into the cutest toddler bed and eventually a full size headboard. I started doing some online searching. I actually found the same crib in a few places but it had dark brown accents. This would be okay but it wasn't "perfect".

Suddenly I came upon ONE place that sold that exact same crib in all white. The site said in stock so I called my mom to tell her I would just order it. Maybe my dad was the bad luck. Ha! The wonderful thing about this place was that it said most orders ship within two business days and it was free shipping! Ordered.

That was last Monday afternoon. I could barely stand it all day Wednesday thinking about whether the crib would ship or if I'd get another email saying it had been canceled. Finally in the early afternoon I couldn't stand it anymore. I logged into my email to get the order number. I wanted to see about checking my order status online. I realized then that I had a shipping confirmation from them. Holy Moly, the crib shipped!?

I spent the next few days relentlessly stalking my UPS tracking number and found out about Track This on Twitter which does the stalking for me. Finally yesterday it arrived. The crib has been put together and we are getting the room situated. I couldn't help but stand in the doorway this morning and chuckle at the sight of that darn crib. At least now my kid doesn't have to sleep on the floor!

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posted by kimberly, 7:47 AM