My Surprise!

On Sunday I took a van load (and I mean a completely FULL van of yard sale stuff -- I couldn't even see out the back or side windows!) to Keely's house for our GIGANTIC yard sale. I came back home the next day and opened the front door to see our love seat in our dining room and practically stepped in Reese's pack and play as I opened the door. Thinking "Aaron hates changing the furniture around, what is going on?" Then I looked over in the corner and saw . . .

This is the couch I've had my eye on for a while. Well ever since Keely bought it and I discovered how wonderful and practical it is when you have little kids. It can be wiped off if anything gets spilled on it and believe me, it will here. It's funny because Keely and I always seem to own the same furniture. I have a olive green couch and love seat that I bought about 8 years ago. A few years ago Keely bought the same couch and matching chair. Now we both hate our furniture. I mainly hate mine because the kids have destroyed it but it's also seems giant in the small space I have. So now we are both going with a brown leather version!

I have wanted to replace our old couch with the spills, stains, frayed edges for a while now and I thought I was going to stimulate the economy by having George Bush buy it. But it turns out that Aaron's parents bartered for it. They just moved into a new house and need Aaron to do some plumbing work. He doesn't charge his parents for plumbing work but since there's quite a bit to do they wanted to pay him. He said he wasn't taking their money, so they said they buy us the couch in exchange for his plumbing services. It sounded like a good deal to me but we told his parents we talk about it more and I felt like Aaron was doing all the work and not really getting something he wanted so I thought we were still in discussion/negotiation mode. His parents bought the couch and Aaron picked it up on Saturday and had it all in place when I came back home to surprise me -- very sweet!

Now we have 3 couches/love seats in this house and because I'd have to pay someone to take that couch (no one sane would ever buy it from us) we are donating it to Goodwill and hopefully a good upholstery person or someone with a nice slipcover can use it and the new rule: Absolutely, positively no jumping on the new couch!