So today was a bit stressful. We have a local buy buy baby which is owned by bed bath and beyond, and it's a really nice store. DH and I liked it so much and they had such nice, well made baby furniture we decided to get our furniture from them. The babies r us is overpriced in our opinion as far as the furniture goes. So we picked a collection from Baby Appleseed. It's the Stratford collection in espresso. It was priced very reasonably and really nice set. MIL said she would buy the furniture as our baby gift which was amazing as we had so much to bu and DH won't be making the big bucks till the spring as he does t graduate till December.
So anyway, she bought us the crib when I was about 25 weeks after prompting her, DH takes after her in the procrastination department. The crib was $249 and the dresser/changing table combo is $349, so she asked if it'd be ok if she bought the combo a few weeks later. After being assured by the employee in the furniture dept that the collection wouldn't be discontinued and we'd be able to get it I said ok thats fine. I'm not one to procrastinate And wait till the last minute to do things as I like to get things done and accomplished. So here I am almost 31 weeks pregnant, it's been quite a while since she bought the crib and still no combo. So I was on that side of town, I needed to get a gift card from there anyway so I decided to stop in to see if they had any in stock or due to be delivered.
I sit down with the lady and as soon as she asked me what collection and I told her baby Appleseed, she got this "oh sh*t!" look on her face. She said "I'm so sorry but they have stopped production for now". I think I was so shocked I didnt know what to say. I think I actually said "what?!? Are you sure?" lol like she wouldn't know.
So basically baby Appleseed was receiving too many requests and they couldn't keep up with them. So wednesday buy buy baby received a call from baby Appleseed, saying they were stopping production and all special orders until June. And that date wasn't guaranteed. So if we were to wait till June to order it would still take another 6-8 weeks to receive the items. I'm due July 9th!! That wasn't going to work
so when I left the store frustrated that my husband likes to procrastinate and we have waited all this time to buy the furniture, I was getting so upset and worried my daughter would have no furniture. I ended up calling other buy buy baby stores within a decent driving radius from us (we live in Jacksonville), so I called the Augusta, GA location. They had the 5-drawer chest but not the combo unit. The manager got on the phone, he was so nice and helpful....and he told me he didn't want me stressing over the situation and took my name and number. He told me to give him like 10 min and he would try to find a store closer to me that might has both pieces. He called me back like 5 min later and there's a store in altamonte springs, FL (about 2 1/2 hours from us) and they have both pieces in the espresso color. They are currently holding them for me an have been so helpful! I would reccomend them to anyone just based on the customer service and quality of their products. Some of their things are even cheaper than babies r us. I priced them out to try to save as much as possible. Anyway, that's how my day was Lol
, you can't win 
. In actual fact i was measuring bang on at my last appt!
But seriously FREE coffee...the good stuff not instant- proper coffee!
had to send hubby out to get milk for our daughter this morning!!!
