Furniture Reporter

I am terrible when it comes to laughing at inappropriate times.  If there is something funny said or done when it is not the right place or time I will almost always laugh. 

This usually gets me into some trouble, especially my wife, who hates that I will embarrass her or, in the case of the children, encourage them to continue their funny ways.

The latest occurance is one involving my soon to be 5 year old son.  My wife and I were strolling through the local farmers market and were browsing in the furniture store where they make all the hand crafted wood tables and shelves and such and in there they also have many of the rustic or country decorations. 

My wife and I were very involved in looking in this store as we are looking for some new pieces to go with the newly painted rooms.  We were having a discussion when out of the handcrafted gazebo inside the store jumps out my son. 

He lands in a karate stance and yells “Look I am Michelangelo!”

He begins to swing wildly two hand crafted candles, the kind that have the wicks attached that you hang from a wall, like they are nunchucks. 

For all those that don’t get the Michelangelo reference, that is the name of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.

My wife was mortified. 

I laughed. 

She scowled at me and yelled at him.  She yanked the candles from his hands and hung them back up in the gazebo and stormed out of the store all embarrassed leaving him and I standing there.

I took his hand to leave and find my wife when he looks up at me and says “That was a good one, wasn’t it?”

Yes Buddy, it was!

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I just love these beds for a little girl. Wish I knew where to get them in the united states.

Serendipity, Paris

This matches my kitchen curtains, in case you were wondering.

Taken near Gower St. and Santa Monica Bl.

My husband and I have been trying to decide the best plan of attack for moving our 2 oldest sons into a bedroom together. We have officially run our of bedrooms, and unless we do some pretty hefty construction work to add on a 5th bedroom, our 2 oldest boys just have to double-up.

For us, it was a simple decision.

For our 2 sons, it’s been something they don’t even want to discuss. The thought of moving in to the same room… ahh, it hasn’t been an easy subject.

So we wanted to make the experience as fun as can be. What came to mind!? Let’s get BUNK BEDS!

There have been pros and cons about the bunk bed chat since January. Our oldest son would only be 4. And our second son would only be 3. Not exactly good ages for bunk beds. All I could see and envision was the “who could jump farthest?” type contests going on at night.

On the other side of the coin… bunk beds would be our best bet for more space in the room with the two of them together. And we figured that we could get a queen size bed on the bottom bunk and possibly have them share that for the time being.

But then I came across an article on News for Parents.org – Bunk Bed-Related Injuries Not Exclusive to Young Children – which states in it’s opening paragraph that:

Bunk bed-related injuries are not an issue of concern solely for parents of young children according to a study conducted by investigators at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. The study, published in the June issue of Pediatrics, found although three-quarters of the children who sustain bunk bed-related injuries are younger than 10 years of age, there is a surprising spike in injuries among individuals between the ages of 18 and 21 years.

This study used national data to examine bunk bed-related injuries among children and young adults (which they classified as up to 21 years of age). There were an estimated 572,580 bunk bed-related injuries during the 16-year study period, resulting in an average of 36,000 cases annually.

Now I had concerns about the safety of bunk beds, which is why I have been looking up research on them, but I never figured the numbers to be this high and this alarming.

To read more of this extremely informative article from News for Parents.org, click HERE.