Mattresses, Beds and why do I have to do everything the hard way....

Ok, so I'm heading swiftly into my third trimester and we still havent properly moved into our new bedroom.  The main problem being a lack of bed.  So I drag Nick on a shopping  spree to cribs causeway. We tackle prams/pushchairs in the morning (exhausting!) and mattresses in the afternoon.  At about 5pm after a days shopping, we have been in 3 mattress shops already and I say, "Lets just try John Lewis"....  So we are wondering around the department half comatose and end up lying our weary bones on a particular pocket sprung delight.  "Arrrrrrrrhhh" we both groan, completely unable to return to the vertical. And that is the story of how we ended up spending twice our budget on a John Lewis mattress.

The bed was another story.  I had really wanted an antique upholstered one, but figured that baby dribble and worse all over the unwashable padded bits would soon look a bit grim. So I picked up a victorian carved one on ebay for what I thought was a song with the intention of painting it.  4 coats later, and some nailbiting attempts to "crackle glaze" some of the frame, I'm starting to think Dad was right when he said I should have gone to IKEA....  I really need to give up on doing things the hard way when we just need to get practical before the 25th September!

As yet still sleeping on the floor...