Our New Arrival

Psyche...made you look!


Nope....this arrival did not come in a little, cute, squishy, cuddly package.

It is a much, much bigger package (and thank goodness I didn't have to push it out!).


So here's the run down.

We had a couch...a couch that we purchased the week before Isaac was born (about 2 1/2 years ago). We took it in for repairs about 10 days ago. We have been surviving with a rocker recliner. That's right...one lousy rocker recliner to 5 people. NOT SO GOOD!

I called today to see how the repair was coming. Apparently there was a "mix up" and we hadn't been reached because they "didn't have our phone number" and they were "so glad I called so they could get things worked out and BEGIN work on the couch." "But don't worry...it should only take another week and a half...or so...to get it fixed." I was furious! After explaining to the girl on the phone that "I completely underst[ood] that none of this [was her] fault personally" I politely told her just how irritated I was that it had already been 10 days and NOTHING had been done. I told her that I was 8 1/2 months pregnant...that this couch was our ONLY couch and that I was forced to share a rocker recliner with the entire household (although the queen did come first).

I then called the Spokane store, where we purchased it from, to see if I could get the ball rolling on their side (and they were so nice to me even though it was none of their fault either). The girl promised she would call the Tri-Cities store and get things squared away really quickly.

15 minutes later I get a call from the Tri-Cities store saying that they can not fix our couch so they are just going to replace it. Score....now I wouldn't have to clean it when we finally got it back (and believe me....it REALLY needed cleaning). The only downside was that it would take two weeks to get in. But, they told us that we could come pick up our old couch and use it until the new one came. Double score! I just wanted a blasted couch to sit on!

3-4 hours later I got another phone call from the Tri-Cities store telling me that an extra replica of our couch had shown up with today's shipment and we were welcome to pick up our brand spanking new couch tonight instead of picking up the old one and swapping it later.

Um....talk about TRIPLE SCORE! I was super excited.

Isn't it beautiful?

It's so clean and non-stinky. Never been wet on or leaked on or sweat on or....well, you get it.

I had a talk with the kids too. One of those life or death talks.

Here was the jist of it...

No shoes, no standing, absolutely no jumping, no food, no leaky diapers and ABSOLUTELY NO WET, DIRTY UNDERWEAR (eyes boring into one child in particular).

In fact, I told them they are lucky if they get to sit on it at all.

I'm mean....but it's pretty...and non-stinky...and pretty.



You would think that was the end of the tale. Well it's not. You're in luck. There's more.



We did it. We really did it. We made the financial sacrifice and purchased a couch and love seat. Rob and I will soon be the proud owners of this bad boy...
Plus the matching love seat.

It's super comfortable and has an incredible 5 year warranty that even includes anything you (or in this case...any of our four boys) do to it (cuts, tears, burns...etc). The only downfall here is that it will take a month or so to come in and the love seat another 2-3 weeks after that. But, I talked the dude (salesman guy) into having the sofa delivered as soon as it comes in and then we will be responsible to pick the love seat up (with our van) when it becomes available. Totally worked it out!

Money certainly can't buy happiness but...sometimes the things it can buy put a smile on my face anyway.

It'll take that!