Thank you daylight savings...

This week has been full of perfect 70 degree weather and with the added hour of daylight I'm pretty sure this is heaven. The Missouri bugs will hit soon with the heat so we're taking advantage of every single minute. Even tonight after spending the whole day outdoors I went outside to put something in the trash and told David the weather was just perfect. So we packed up all the kids who were already bathed with brused teeth and went for a jammie walk. The kids loved it. It's the simple things like Hannah holding Mallie on her lap the entire walk and not complaining that make me so happy. I adore these munchkins. And then there's this story I had to document. Remember that time I convinced David to let my buy a loveseat that doesn't match anything??

Since we've been married we've made exactly 3 major furniture purchases. Our dining room table, the recliner (that I wanted so badly for late night nursing but now hate because if it's size) and our new tv stand which I'm not even sure counts as major since it was still a cheap one we had to assemble ourselves for a $150. Everything else has been given to us by family and friends (see that hutch - I owe it to Cindy!) and we are so grateful. So when our tax returns came around this year I begged and pleaded for David to allott me an amount of money for new leather couches and then we'd put the rest towards loans.

I shopped and shopped and after a month finally decided on two full size leather beauties that could withstand the test of kids over the next decade. We moved the recliner upstairs to the nursery and the kids and I welcomed the delivery truck with open arms. That is until my new couches couldn't clear the front door. So they went around back and tried every angle before they measured them. Off by 5 inches. I was so sad I was ready to break a window to shove it through but instead I watched the truck pull out with our couches. Our living room was empty with our poor little brown couch staying put. I was too disheartened to try again because I had barely found those so we decided to wait till we move in 2.5 years to buy new couches. David and I decided that the recliner was to stay put in the nursery where it belonged all along so I had to come up with some extra seating for cheap to hold us by. Well here it is. I'm not sure that I should admit that I actually really love it. It's not comfortable and it doesn't match at all but I really do love it. So there it is... my gem - it'll definitely buy me another 2.5 years of waiting for new couches.