I've decided that I have GOT to get Little Cutie out of our bed. She flips, she kicks, she clings and I've given her three years but it's time for her to stay in her bed all night. I'm thinking that moving her from a toddler bed to a big girl bed may do the trick. So not wanting to do much today, I started shopping around for the bits needed for this project:
Hardware-conversion rails and mattress (her bed is crib to college model which seems to have been a good investment)
Software- bedding including more pillows and mattress pads, ect
Peripherals- other things to go with her new room theme.
I'm a little saddened by all of this. It's another baby thing to let go and with the new bed, new bedding and a revamp of the room seems to be in order. I think we're going with Tinkerbell bedding and accessories and art in line with Peter Pan's Tinkerbell as opposed to the newer fairy stuff like this lamp:
It will all look great with what's on her walls and her curtains and whatnot and when we move, I can paint her walls in a different theme that still works or do the same walls for the third time. lol.
The part that makes me sad is what to do with the Winnie the Pooh stuff. Some things like the snowglobe will probably stay. The antique book and the mohair Pooh are more mine and will probably go in the library. The wall art is my brother's from when he was a child and will be returned to him.
Really, it's the bedding and the lamp that makes me sad. When she was born it was so chaotic and I felt so unprepared (LC was induced at 35 weeks, 2 weeks before Christmas. We thought we had until the end of January and were putting things off until after the holidays.) And I don't know if I have ever felt so loved then when I came home and everything was waiting for us under the tree. All of the bedding. Seven sets of sheets. All of the plush toys. Every time I look at her room, I am reminded of all of that love.
So what do I do? Sell it? I could garage sale it, eBay it or go to Once Upon a Child, but that feels like putting a price tag on all of those feelings. Leave it in the attic? I suppose I can save it and see if someone else having a baby wants it all and I can give it to them.
I don't know, it's a lot of attachment to crib sheets but it's time for me to move on and for her to grow up just a little more.
your daughter knows you are the bestest mommy ever. :)
ReplyDeleteMaybe share the love-- instead of selling it donate it to a women's shelter or something like that?
ReplyDeleteThe feelings are yours, sweetie, forever. They're triggered by the stuff, for sure, but they won't go away when the stuff does. :-) I understand as well as I can, when I think about the attachments I have to various of my things, but if you can focus on keeping the memories and feelings it might make it easier to let go of the stuff. Alternatively, as I think other people have mentioned, you can make a quilt or some other form of "useful thing going forward" out of it so that it transforms as L transforms rather than needing to be let go of. Hugs to you in any case!
ReplyDeleteTake photos.
ReplyDelete--Hawk