Sit on It!

After several years of living in a total dump, we are finally turning our house into a grown up house. Or at least, a place with a more comfortable, grown up living room. It started with us being copycats and getting the same recliner that mom and dad had purchased. The thing is amazing - it's not a big hideous man recliner, it rocks, it's so comfortable. I only wish I'd had it before Ellie was born. It would have made the first few weeks much easier. I look forward to sleeping it with #2 on my chest when he or she is a few days old and needs to hear mommy's heartbeat to sleep.

The next step was getting rid of our entertainment cabinet. The one we had is a 70s relic from the Ford rec room. It's a nice piece of actual wood furniture, but it didn't have any shelving and was basically made to store VHS tapes, not all of the cable boxes and X-Boxes that Tim has. His friend Ed bought a new entertainment center and sold us his. Voila! New entertainment center on the cheap. We were even able to unload our old entertainment cabinet via the magic of craiglist (I put it in the free section and someone actually came and got it! One can only hope that getting rid of the couch will go as well.)

It gets better. At knitting I was talking about how Tim and I had decided to go look for a small sectional during Labor Day, to take advantage of the sales. Jackie mentioned that she had friends in San Diego who had some barely used furniture in storage that they were looking to unload. Turns out, their sectional was almost exactly what Tim and I were looking to buy, and they were looking to sell on the cheap. So today we rented a U-Haul cargo van (which we filled with puppies and candy, for the children of San Diego, naturally) and dumped the baby at Grams' so we could go and pick up our new couch. It was like a day off - four whole hours spent reading and goofing off in the van, without the baby? SWEET FREEDOM!

So I present, without further ado, our sweet new living room.

Now I just sort of wish we had held out - perhaps mom and dad would have sold us their recliner gently used.

I also present: how babysitting went (aka: making the baby sleep in the yard.)