We had a sad and unfortunate moment this weekend.  Long before Will was born, we were given a beautiful bassinet from my brother and his wife.  They were moving and wouldn’t need it anymore.  We used it the first couple of weeks with Will before moving him to his crib (he squeaked an awful lot in his sleep).  I wanted it out of the way then, so we moved it under the stairs for storage.  This weekend we decided to do some organizing under the stairs since we had tossed lots of other Will things under there too.  What we found was among the most disgusting things I have ever seen.

Remember the cat problem I discussed a while back?  It was worse than we could have ever imagined.  As it turns out, Star was peeing in the bassinet for 3 months!  And then the pee soaked (and water tight) bassinet sat for 4 months.  Then one beautiful Saturday afternoon, we pulled that once pure white bassinet out of storage and were horrified by the stench of cat pee.  7 months of damage had destroyed the bassinet turning it brown.

I’m a little in shock still.  It is destroyed which makes me incredibly sad.  I was really looking forward to using it in the distant future or at least passing it on to friends.  It was so pretty and Will looked so cute in it (sorry, past Will photos are only open to family and friends).

Don’t worry though, it is all wrapped in garbage bags ready for the trash.  No way that grossness is staying around this house!  *washes hands 10 times*

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