The Baby Gate Saga Continues...

You might remember that I ordered baby gate hardware from the States way back in the beginning of December so that we could mount our baby gates to our wrought iron railing.

You might also remember that I waited almost entirely a whole month before I lost my patience, and got on the phone with the company to find out what exactly was up.

It appeared that the shipment had been lost by good ol' USPS, so the company sent out a duplicate order, but reminded me that it "could take up to two weeks to arrive at your address", only to have the first shipment arrive two days later--they had an entirely incorrect zip code.

So, I've had shipment #1 for about three weeks and shipment #2 for about two weeks, but do I have gates up yet? Umm, that would be a NO!

For a few brief moments today I thought I might get them installed by James, only to find out that "I don't know where the hardware is". Grrrr. I was hopping mad for a few minutes and then I remembered that there are a couple of things that I can't find either and they are a whole lot bigger than some pieces of hardware in a Ziploc bag.

So, now I will try to order some new hardware. Seems like something that you should be able to order...so that means it probably isn't.

In the meantime, we will try to keep Toby off the stairs, which, by the way he climbed the entire set from top to bottom today. It's not the climbing up that I'm worried about...it's the falling down! By the way, I don't want to hear all the stories about how "we never had gates, you need to TEACH them to go down the stairs" or the fact that a guy in our ward who has a baby one month older than Toby, who just moved into their home a week ago, told James yesterday "we don't have gates, we just taught him how to go down". Let me promise you, I've witnessed this kid walking around in church, he trips over NOTHING. He will have a trip the emergency room if they don't get gates. As will Toby. We WILL have gates--someday! Yes, yes we certainly will!

Until later,

Emily

P.S. I found the baby gate's website and luckily you can reorder hardware...at a steep price I might say. And, I had to buy two sets of hardware because we have two gates. Baby gates like mine aren't cheap to begin with, so this is still the best way. Unfortunately, you have to print out and mail in the order...so I'm guessing I won't get the parts for at least three weeks. If at all, because the website didn't say that they will or won't ship to APO's. Crossing my fingers that they do and they will. Or else we'll be no further ahead then we were at the beginning of December!