"New" Furniture!

Remember this? It is a picture of Eric fixing our futon... the 1st time! This pic was taken around a year and a 1/2 ago. Well, let me tell you something. This futon went downhill quickly. By the beginning of this past summer, there were only 2-3 of those bottom slats in tact. Meaning basically the mattress/cushion was sitting on the floor.

So, when you sat (or laid) on the couch, it felt like you were in an uneaven bucket seat. NOT fun on the ol' back. And definitely not fun for a pregnant and then just-un-pregnant lady to sit on all day.

And do you remember this chair? It was the replacement chair for the old green one in the 1st photo above. I had high hopes of rocking my baby to sleep in this "nice" glider/rocker each night. Well, as it turn out, the rocker was broken making this chair very uncomfortable to sit in, much less rock in it. About the only thing it was good for was as a cat bed. Ug.

Well, we prayed and searched long and hard for a new couch and chair and God has been good to us. At the end of the school year, one of our long-time teacher friends was leaving and we got to have her couch. Below is a picture of 2 of the 3 or 4 men it took to bring it up our stairwell and into our narrow doorway.

Then, recently I found this chair on a facebook site called, Osan Flea Market. It looked like a really nice rocker at a reasonable price so we bought it! And let me tell you, it is SO NICE! Probably the nicest piece of furniture we have (excluding our bed which was brand new and a wedding present to us.)

So, now our living room looks like this and we are REALLY happy for the changes and how God has provided. Now we feel that we can actually have people over again and they can sit somewhere other than on the floor! Yay for gently used (American!) furniture.