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I was hunched over the steering wheel at 6:42 p.m., idling in gridlock on the Gardiner, rain leaking off the windshield in thin, annoying streams, staring at a text that said: "Have you ordered the crib yet?" My phone buzzed again from the living room — the baby monitor app, just to remind me we were still renovating and still not ready. I had promised myself no impulse buys, but the nursery deadline was creeping up and every day I stalled felt like more money leaking out o

I was standing in the middle of the store, stroller half folded beside me, heart pounding like I had sprinted up the Spadina Avenue hill. It was 4:17 p.m., the fluorescent lights were humming, and outside there was that sharp, late-autumn wind that smells like wet leaves and bus exhaust — very . I had just been handed a crib corner piece to inspect and for the first time in weeks I felt something close to relief. The weirdest part of the visit I almost bailed on going

I was crouched on the living room floor at 10:12 p.m., forehead practically touching the unfinished crib, Allen key in one hand and a crumpled instruction sheet in the other, when it hit me that the real lesson wasn't about hardware. It was about where I'd bought the set, how I haggled, and how many times I trusted strangers in comments on local Facebook groups. My phone buzzed with a notification from a listing for dressers & gliders at Toronto's east end, and I had to lau