Wide Open Spaces

We rearranged things in our family room a bit today to accomodate our new couch. We've been wanting a new one for a while for a couple of reasons. The main reason is that the furniture that we had there had basically gotten beaten up - it wasn't the best quality to begin with and after many years of service (8 years for the love seat and 15 years for the chair) and three kids, they looked pretty bad. We also didn't like that we didn't have room for our entire family to sit and watch TV or just hang out. So we bought a new sofa today. It looks nice - it's black leather and we can all sit on it at the same time if we squeeze. Jay can even stretch out all the way, as you can see in the picture. It's quite a bit bigger than the love seat, so we decided not to get a chair; we might supplement with some big pillows or a bean bag chair or something for extra floor seating. But for now we're good.

It's amazing how much roomier the family room looks now because we don't have the chair angled in toward the TV anymore. The black color looks nice as well; it blends with the area rug that we have and with the other colors in the room. We really liked a dark walnut color, but it was quite a bit more expensive so we went with black. We figure black will be fairly versatile for future changes that we want to make to the room as well.

After our foray to the furniture store we took the kids to Sizzler for lunch. William and Henry both had coupons since I joined the PTA at both their schools so we thought we'd take advantage of the free kid's meals. I love their cheese toast; Jay jokes that they should have a cheese toast meal deal just for me. Our waitress was nice and brought us enough cheese toast for several families. I tipped her $5.