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I was crouched on the showroom floor at 4:22 pm, knees numb from the thin carpet, staring at a crib that was both too white and somehow not white enough. Outside, the rain had turned Queen Street into a streaky blur and a streetcar slid by with a squeak that made the babies in the display nursery cry (or maybe that was just the recording). I remember thinking, half-laughing, half-panicked, that I had exactly three weeks to pick everything for a nursery and no idea where to

I was halfway through unloading the stroller into the rain-slicked curb on St. Clair at 11:08 a.m., scraping a glove against a soggy receipt, when I realized I had agreed to look at nursery sets for real. No swiping through catalogs that night. No lazy Pinterest pinning. I had a list, a toddler whining in the backseat, and a vague recollection that the Baby & Kids Furniture Warehouse Toronto was supposed to have "everything." Spoiler: it did, but not in the way I expected.

I was hunched over the passenger seat at 10:14 a.m., https://yp.ca/bus/105336436 wincing as a delivery truck squealed past on Queen East, because I had just realized my stroller did not fit in the trunk with the crib box. Rain tapped the windshield. My phone buzzed with two store confirmations at once. I had been bouncing between Baby & Kids Furniture Warehouse Toronto and a smaller shop in Leslieville all morning, clutching a paper list and a coffee that was already gone

I was hunched over a damp stroller under the awning of a tiny showroom on Queen West, rain dripping off the brim of my hood, trying to read the handwritten business hours taped to the glass. It was 3:12 pm, my phone said 18% battery, and the traffic on Dufferin felt like a slow parade of delivery vans. I had already visited two other places that morning, one that smelled like new laminate and another that looked like someone had emptied a warehouse into a showroom without c

I was elbow-to-elbow with half a dozen tired parents at 11:07 a.m., rain dripping off my umbrella into a puddle by my shoe, watching a floor model crib get wheeled past like it was a prize at a rummage sale. The fluorescent lights hummed. A kid three aisles over was testing every glider with the quiet intensity of someone trying to collapse a fortress. I had a list in my pocket and three conflicting pieces of advice from friends in buzzing in my head. Why I went in at a

I was standing in the middle of my living room at 8:42 p.m., fluorescent box light still on, crumpled Allen keys on the floor, watching two delivery guys argue over whether the crib screws were metric or imperial. Outside, the King Street traffic was finally letting up and I could hear the distant clang of a streetcar. Inside, there was a half-assembled dresser leaning against the couch and a mountain of cardboard that smelled faintly of glue and wet cardboard from the rain

I was kneeling on the living room rug at 11:14 p.m., flashlight from my phone balanced between my teeth, staring at a bag of spare screws that did not match the picture in the manual. Outside, the twins' nightlight was a pale orange dot through the curtains and a TTC bus rumbled down the street in that way it does in my neighborhood on Queen West, like someone dragging a metal stick across a grate. My partner had gone to the corner store at 9:30 to buy batteries and came ba

I was hunched over a half-assembled crib at 9:15 last night, headlamp on because the overhead light in the nursery flickers like it's not sure it wants to work. Baby Ella was asleep in her stroller in the living room, and I could hear the 401 rumble faintly through the windows like a distant train. I had just come Babywarehouse back from the baby & kids furniture warehouse Toronto on Dundas, and my hands still smelled faintly of pine and cardboard dust. I remember think