Because my husband and I spent so long in graduate school, there’s a whole swatch of life that we’re experiencing for the first time. Little bits of knowledge that others with years of gainful employment picked up years ago. Like buying furniture.

Rather than harvesting other’s castoffs from the back of apartment buildings, we’re finally in a position to purchase the real furniture. We’ve been shopping around for a bunk bed for the kids. It took us four expeditions to different shops to get a feel for the prices and the quality of the various furniture shops. The ladder costs extra? We finally settled on one bed this weekend going for a solid, but slightly more pricey model. It took many hours while carting around the two kids to figure it all out.

Everything we’re doing now, from scraping wallpaper to buying furniture, involves a steep learning curve. In our late thirties, we’re babes in the woods of middle class life.

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