If It's Good Enough For Moses...

I went to Goodwill today with Christmas on my mind. I'd originally intended to look for containers for baked goods and treats but I saw the toys as soon as I walked in and I changed gears. I started looking around in what I like to call Gift-Thrift mode. I bought a toy for each child that seemed to be in very good shape although it's packaging did not. Who cares, I say! That will just make it easier to remove from said packaging on Christmas morning! Then I found a dry erase primary tablet for Sam. That was cool. He'll start Pre-K next year. Nothing like the gift of learning, I say. I say a lot of things, by the way. Did I mention that every toy was less than seven bucks? Well, it was!

Then.....(oh boy oh boy oh boy)...I saw it.
A moses basket.


I said, A MOSES BASKET.


C'mon, people! Get excited with me! Because it was Just. What. I. Needed.

You just don't understand. My parents planned to get Zoe a doll stroller for Christmas. And I planned to get her a doll bed. But Zoe is wild. I mean, she jumps and climbs and flings herself to and fro. She turns over the armoire at least once every three months or so. I've been terrified to get her anything else she can use as a jumping off point. The plastic, even wooden, doll beds I've looked at so far would be her undoing, I'm telling you. I needed to find something she couldn't impale herself on and this is it!

But I've never had one and all of the linens and such were just stuffed down inside. I washed it at home and then started to put it together to see how it would look.

So here's the basket with the little mattress and sheet.


And here it is after I got the fabric thingy on it.


Something wasn't right. I turned it this way and that and still it was wrong.


So I stripped the thing and looked at some pictures online for reference.


That's when I found a picture that looked a lot like this. It was called, "Kim, you are a doofus."


Now. Just look at it sitting over there on my unmade bed. Perfect and only $3.53 in cold hard cash.


I hope some of you are clapping.