New library furniture!

This week, Mom and Sarah both told me that my chair up in the library (where we do our hobbies and watch movies) was shot. So, on Wednesday it was so hot and we were all really tired that we decided to drive up to Mansfield to look at some furniture stores. First we went to Value City Furniture. I sat in every chair they had there. There was one recliner that was all right, but we remembered that there were two other furniture place in town, so we decided to try them before deciding anything. Next we went to Furniture Row to see what they had to offer. They had tons of furniture and I sat in all of those pieces too! (I did a lot of sitting down and getting up!) Well, there was a nice chair and a cool red leather love seat. So, we had lunch at Panera to take time and figure out the best course of action. We laid out all the pros and cons of just replacing my chair, or replacing Sarah's as well with a love seat for us to share. We eventually decided that we would go with the love seat. Sarah and I like sitting together and we missed that with two chairs. Also, we do several of the same hobbies which would be nice to do sitting together and the ease of keeping shared supplies between us. We did decide to go look at Ashley Furniture before totally settling on the red love seat though. So, off we went and I sat in a bunch more chairs, but nothing compared to that red leather piece. Back at Furniture Row we looked around again, finally ending up at the same red love seat. So, since it was 4:45pm, we measured it and called Dad who left work and made sure that the piece would fit through the doorways to get upstairs. Everything checked, so we told him to meet us up there. We looked around and found a clearance king-size headboard that matched Mom and Dad's bedroom set. We also decided that we would see if we could find a new chair for Dad, as he had been needing one for a while as well. We found the perfect chair, an Italian leather wall-hugger, non-rocking recliner. It was the last piece of a living room set that the store had. It has flat wings on the side and huge padded arms that make it ideal for lying with your legs over the side! I was sold the first time I sat in it. Dad arrived and agreed about the three pieces and it turned out that delivery included carrying the furniture upstairs! Yay! So we went to Pizza Hut for dinner, all very happy about our shopping day. God certainly arranged everything for us. I mean, the last love seat, the last chair, and a headboard without any sides or bottom! We felt very blessed.

Thursday was spent cleaning out the back room upstairs and when Dad got home, he carried chairs down stairs and moved all kinds of lamps and end tables. By the time we all quit and went upstairs to watch a show before bed, there was only one chair and the sleeper sofa left to sit on! So yesterday, at noon, the delivery people came and two young men carried both big pieces of furniture right up the stairs and had them in place in half an hour! We couldn't have been more thrilled. So Sarah and I pushed everything around until it was right where we wanted it and then we sat upthere on the new furniture and watched some "Big Valley" episodes.