So long old friend...

Jeremy and I have wanted a new couch forever...some friends gave this to us when we got married because it was broken and they got new furniture...and we love free stuff. We've always planned on buying a new couch "when we could afford it" which seems to happen when we NEED new tires or whatever...So then we bought the house and planned on buying new furniture when the mobile home sold...and its now being rented. So then there's this real possibility that we'll end up going to China for a year or so sometime next year, so why buy furniture that we're going to have to put in storage. So the plan was to "wait and see." Until our couch turned us....not being ones to risk blinding our child so that we could keep the couch of death (even though it was free) we opted to send it away to live out its spring poking years where all good couches go to retire with dignity.
Maeli had a cow...when she woke up the next morning she flipped..."couch" "couch" "couch." She even stood on a chair crying at the window because she could see the couch in the back of Jeremy's truck ready to "move on." We could not calm her down--well get tough chicky, its never coming back in here! We took full advantage of the missing furniture and "we" shampooed the carpets.
okay, I actually did help a little, but Jeremy took over when I got pooped after one tank of water.
Although we enjoy the "open" feeling...we're starting to miss having a couch. Kitchen chairs just don't really cut it when its time to watch movies...plus Grandma Terry is coming for three weeks when we have Tucker and she might want to sit or sleep at some point. So we're awaiting our "sleeper sofa" from overstock.com which was our "nicer than what we had, but not our first choice, but it'll work" compromise. It should get here on Friday!