Did you try Googling key words “assemble l shaped loft bunk bed”?  Throw in “instructions” “tutorial” and “how to” for extra hits.  That’s my idea…sorry, lame, I know!
Another idea is to go visit a furniture store/bunk bed showroom and find the model you like & ask clerk if you can read the assembly instructions. They’ll either say yes or no, but you may get clues just from eyeballing the finished product.
Good luck!

You could try googling “L shaped bunk bed directions [insert brand name here]” or variants of it. Sometimes obsolete information can still be found online if you search enough. If that doesn’t work, search for L shaped bunk bed directions on YouTube. There might be something there.

I don’t know what your schedules are like to really make suggestions, but I know for me, I just let stuff slide on Sun.  That usually means the house is a disaster after the weekend and I have extra work Mon., but I haven’t found another solution.  If you do have to do stuff on Sun - offer it up to Our Lord as a prayer to sanctify your work.

I look at my week as a sort of wedge-shape graph: Mondays are high-intensity, hard-working days, and everything gradually tapers down to Saturday, with Sunday as a floater.

It’s not a hard & fast rule for me, but if I can, I try to have all laundry done (dryer emptied, folded, put away)by Friday night.  I try to have big grocery shopping trips done by Friday night. Vacuuming done by Friday night.  Because if I do any of those three strenuous things on Saturday, I know I’m going to need Sunday just to recover & not rejoice!

I also try to stay strict about *my* bedtime on the weekends, otherwise I’m heading into Monday in the red.

So, I guess I use Friday as my “regular chore deadline” day, Saturday for bulk & extra cooking, and Sunday for puttering aroud-type jobs.  We raked leaves & winterized the yard last Sunday, for example.  It was too enjoyable to be counted as “servile labor!”

Go to flylady.net.  Get on her program (free) and you will find your weekends, not just Sunday free!

I don’t think that just because there are sometimes things that need to be done on Sunday that means that you have too many activities during the week. Twice a week my husband leaves his 8-5 job and goes straight to the community college to teach a science class with lab. A couple of times a year he also coaches 1 hour a week in the evenings. Around that schedule, I work hard to homeschool our children, keep house, make meals, etc. Our oldest kids do have a couple of activities, but I don’t feel like we spend an excessive amount of time doing them. We work hard during the week and hard on Saturdays, but still there are sometimes things that need to be done. Church and family come first on Sunday and we always attend 8 am Mass, Sunday school for the kids, brunch and have family dinner together. The exception to brunch or dinner is when my kids have a chance to spend Sunday with their grandparents because my mom works every other Saturday and my dad works 1 or 2 Saturdays a month. Then the kids or all of us might have a meal at their house. I just don’t want another mom feeling guilty because her husband works hard to provide and still spend time with the kids so she is failing because she can’t get it all done so there are a few things to be done on Sunday.
m- Consider what things you are consistently doing on Sunday that are eating up your day. Are there other days/evenings during the week you can shift chores and errands around to. I agree, it stinks to feel like everything has to be done between 5 on Friday and bedtime Saturday. It can be very overwhelming as a mom, especially when the rest of the family is needing a little time to decompress. I don’t know how old your kids are, but are you delegating enough chores during the week. We’re not good with a schedule of chores, so I’ve assigned my kids areas of responsibility and they do what I ask when I need help. For instance, one older child is the laundry guy and he collects all the laundry from the hampers and bathrooms and brings it down and separates it when I need it done. My preschooler is the bathroom trash guy. He does that for trash day for me. They help in other areas too. This keeps me from running all over the house getting stuff done and also keeps me from always asking the same kid to help all the time. Anyway, as you get control of one or two things you will hopefully find other Sunday tasks that can be moved. But I will tell you, sometimes no matter how good our intentions are we can’t help but have things to do on Sunday. If my husband needs to change the oil in the cars and its pouring down rain and blowing 30 mph winds on Saturday, he will have to that on Sunday. If the kids are sick all week or on Saturday, there will be things to be done on Sunday. I think we generally know if our actions and intentions are keeping the day Holy. In my opinion, caring for the well-being of our families in mind, body and spirit falls within those parameters but it is a balancing act for sure.

I would test it first to make sure it doesn’t hurt the leather, but I have found that Mr. Clean erasers take out anything! My young child once colored with pen on a cloth ottoman and the Mr. Clean eraser took it out. I have also used them to remove permanent marker from stuff animals. I think they are amazing. Best of luck! (p.s.  If you find that the erasers don’t hurt the leather you might consider having your young one scrub off the pen marks.This helped discourage one of my small children fro
marking things they weren’t suppose to write on.

If you can’t buy slipcovers, you might try buying a sheet and just tucking it in around the cushions of the couch.  My parents do this to protect the furniture from their dog & it looks just fine!  (I am not sure if it would work if you needed to cover up the back of the couch—but it does work nicely for the part you sit on!)

Whatever you do, I recommend you do it quickly.  We let pen marks sit on our leather couch for a couple of months before trying to get them off and it was really hard.  A lot of places we looked online mentioned cleaning it off right away to have the best results.  I think the pen is still on our couch - luckily, only a couple of smallish marks.

We use a regular fake “door” wreath on a pretty serving plate, with four candle holders fixed to the plate with molding clay (or playdough, or window putty…) I have a pretty sprig of fake holly berries that hide all that.  Putting it on a plate makes it portable; ours sits out of harm’s way on the mantle during the day & comes down for prayer/singing in the evening.
I’m no Martha Stewart by any means, but I think our wreath has always looked fabulous!

You can definitely find advent wreaths online.  I know I’ve seen them several places, Leaflet Missal is one of them.  They also have the candles.  I can never find purple candles around here.

Our church sponsors an advent wreath making day on the first Sunday in Advent, so many years ago we got in the habit of making ours. We went to a craft store and bought an undecorated wreath, and then we picked out the beaded garlands, pine cones, and small mini decorations to go on it.Each of us has something which was added personally.  We bought four candle holders which my son wired into the wreath ready to hold the candles. He also put in a set of mini lights which we sometimes light as well. And the Christ Candle is held by an angel which sits on the table in the center of the wreath. We have enjoyed this type of wreath for many years and using it or making a new one blesses us with memories of the past as well as the present.

I made mine: http://nettacow.blogspot.com/2009/12/frugal-advent-wreath.html

Check garden centers - I bought a new one that holds fresh greenery at a nursery near me that was closing.  I’ve also bought one in the past at a Christian/Catholic book and gift store.

We made ours with a wreath and some candle holders, but I was just eyeing some at the Catholic Company online. I they are on sale, too!

No suggestions, but I am excited to know if anyone has a solution to this, too!  My husband’s T-shirts are like this, too, and I have tried bleach, oxyclean, vinegar… no luck at all! :(

Have you tried ammonia?  Or salt?
http://www.HowStuffWorks.com is a great site, w/a household/laundry section.

My understanding of chemistry is poor, but I believe the basics for laundry are: if the stain goes on wet, it needs soaking off.

I think the components of the armpit stains are: perspiration (wet), combined with either deodorant or antiperspirant.  My understanding is that each one would require a separate agent to remove (deod. vs. antiperspirant.)

Lord, how I wish F&FL; would change it’s format so that these open forums are searchable!

If you live in the south, place the items out in the sun for a day or two.

I agree about searchability StephC. And I want a “like” button, too! Just sayin.

God bless you and your family Emily.  You’re in my prayers

Soooo excited for you. All that hard work and now it’s prize time!! Prayers for a safe delivery and a healthy baby. Post back with the results!