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When baby furniture attacks

I received my first baby-accoutrement-related injury the other day, while running to open the door for the nanny. . . slammed my toe into the base of the baby swing so hard that I think I actually broke the little thing. It has turned this slightly shiny, royal shade of purple. And what a great way to start the day -- by yelling "fuuuuuuckkkkk" and hopping around on one foot in front of my children's caregiver. Sometimes I think she thinks I'm a little bonkers so this probably sealed the deal.

In non-baby news, I finally received my "sleek mid-century modern cabinet/credenza" from eBay. I can't believe that I'm this excited over furniture, but I've really gotten into redesigning our hand-me-down living room. And so far, most of the stuff I've gotten has been from overstock.com, including a big version of this rug, a blue-green version of this chair (which we call the Pee-Wee chair in honor of that enormous talking piece from Pee-Wee's Playhouse), and this coffee table which looks really sturdy even though it came as 352 pieces and from which we have at least two dozen screws left over.

Did I mention that we've been saving a lot of money by having babies and not drinking our savings away?

9:03 p.m. 2007-03-19

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