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I was halfway through unloading the stroller into the rain-slicked curb on St. Clair at 11:08 a.m., scraping a glove against a soggy receipt, when I realized I had agreed to look at nursery sets for real. No swiping through catalogs that night. No lazy Pinterest pinning. I had a list, a toddler whining in the backseat, and a vague recollection that the Baby & Kids Furniture Warehouse Toronto was supposed to have "everything." Spoiler: it did, but not in the way I expected.

I was kneeling on a scratchy carpet in the middle of the warehouse at 3:14 p.m., surrounded by five different cribs stacked like tiny, careful bunk beds. The fluorescent lights hummed above, and outside the loading bay I could hear a TTC bus coughing up Queen Street traffic. Rain had started again, the kind that makes baby carriage wheels splash and moms pull hoods low. I had been on the hunt for an actual crib for three weeks, and right then I felt like a very tired archae

I was crouched on the nursery floor at 11:17 p.m., screwdriver in one hand, the instruction booklet turning into a paper snowball on the rug. The window was cracked because it was unseasonably warm for March, but outside the bus on Danforth rattled like it wanted in. I had a half-assembled crib headboard leaning against a box that still smelled faintly of pine and cardboard glue, and I was thinking, for the millionth time, why did I agree to do this tonight? The weirdest