Dear Skyler,

We've managed to sell off the furniture from your room so that you have a place to stay in when you're bigger.

Mommy and Daddy had bought the furniture when we first moved into our home. It was the first bedroom set that we'd bought from this company called Pennsylvania House. This furniture store specialised in bringing in country-style furniture. We'd loved the four-poster bed and all the accessories like the bedside tables, the dressing table, stool and matching mirror. It was all great! However, when we received it all, we found that it was difficult to sleep in the bed as it had a headboard and footboard that made it a bit too short for Daddy to sleep in comfortably. It's not that Daddy is tall. It's just Daddy could not stretch out over the mattress and this made it slightly uncomfortable. So, we had to buy another set of furniture that we still have. (You'll get to see them when you're with us.)

Anyway, Mommy and Daddy wanted to give you a room (one that you can share with any sibling that may come along). So, we had to clear the room out and decided to sell off all the furniture. We initially put up an advertisement at the Causeway Point Cold Storage supermarket. They had a policy of only allowing advertisements to be put up for one week. After that week, we received one phone call but the lady who called did not come to view the furniture as she said that her husband did not really like it.

So, Mommy put up some photos of the furniture on the Internet in the hope that someone would come across them and buy the furniture from us. We also put up another advertisement at Carrefour Supermarket at Suntec City. We waited with bated breath for someone to call as we really needed to clear the room soon so that we could prepare it for you.

After 2 months, Mommy's advertisement time on the Internet expired and she had to renew the advertisement for another period of time. The one at Carrefour was still up - apparently, the staff there don't rem0ve the adverstisements put up by their customers. Still, we did not get any calls from interested parties.

Finally, a kind American gentleman called Mommy on her handphone. He had seen her advertisement and was interested in purchasing the furniture for his daughter's room. He was an expatriate posted to Singapore for two years! His daughter and wife had come over with him and they were setting up home.

We arranged for them to come view the furniture the next day. The gentleman and his daughter came after 9 o'clock at night after having travelled around the whole day. They viewed the furniture and were extremely interested. The girl seemed to love it lots. They left us a downpayment and agreed to come pick the lot up the next day when they could get a van.

Mommy and Daddy then spent the rest of the night preparing the furniture for transfer. We had to take apart the bed and tape up the furniture for transport. It took us some time as the screws had set after this number of years.

The next day, they came again at 9 o'clock at night with a fair sized van. Daddy helped them to carry the furniture down to their vehicle. There were quite a few pieces as the bed was quite big and the other stuff just made up the number of pieces that we had to carry. Finally, we got everything in and they took off with the furniture. We hope that they enjoy it the same amount that we did. :)

Mommy and Daddy spent a lot of time making sure that we had labelled all the parts carefully so that they would not have too many problems putting the bed frame back together again. We also tried to make the furniture travel-friendly. Remember, Skyler, we must always think of others and make things better for everyone if we can.

We are glad that this one man came to buy the furniture. We thank God that this one man wanted the furniture. Now, two families have benefited. We can prepare your room now.

We love you, Skyler. Lots!

Mommy and Daddy