My Brand New Furniture

Okay, so we FINALLY broke down and bought new living room furniture.  Our old stuff was awesome, we had it for 8 years but 8 years of 2 dogs, 3 kids, family, and kids friends had REALLY taken its toll on this stuff!  Last year we started looking and we had gone into Lazy Boy and Scott asks me if I see anything I liked.  Well of course I did!  But I sat down on a beautiful $1500 sofa and looked up at my kids running through the store and then told him that "I have no idea why we are here!?!?"  So we left with no furniture.  Mostly because I know that had we purchased it, got it home and the dog jumped on it and ripped it or one of the kids spilled something on it....it would end up in 2 pieces out on the curb!  So...I took the less expensive route. 
But a few months ago we were laughing about our torn and stained furniture and then found ourselves once again in Lazy Boy.  We made the plunge and bought the furniture. It had to be ordered so it took 7 weeks.  In the meantime I found myself telling the dogs to enjoy it for now, telling Chase and Liv to enjoy making their forts with the pull off cushions, let Chase sleep on it for the last few times (he has seriously slept on our couch for years!), etc etc.  The day before the furniture arrived Chase and Liv were throwing the cushions to the old couch at each other and I said ENJOY IT because the new furniture cushions don't come off!  The reply from Chase was, "You did that on purpose didn't you!?!?!"  Well yeah I did! 
Then the next day its here!  My beautiful new furniture!  Which by the way isn't the gorgeous leather sofa that I so desperately wanted but its still pretty, only difference it has ENDURANCE FABRIC!  Oh yes people!  They make it!  And I have since been fighting a hard battle to not give it a test run!  I have been hovering over the dogs, following the girls when they have anything such as food, drink, NAILPOLISH etc, and the other day Chase was laying on it and I asked if his socks were clean, then if he had washed his hair that day and then asked him to please not fart on the new furniture!  He laughed, I laughed, but deep down...I totally meant it!  So I'm really enjoying it!!! 

Signed~ Mom, Momma, MommEEEEEEEEEE

P.S.~ Dear Lazy Boy, we shall see how much your so called ENDURANCE fabric really does endure!  Cause its in a  warzone now!  If it survives, I'll purchase furniture from you for the rest of my life!