Apparently money does buy happiness!

10/29/10

You'll recall this post from a couple of months ago. We bought a 42" flat screen TV but had nowhere to put it. So we continued on with our ghetto set-up in the living room:

Let's not even mention those hideous plastic crates, shall we?? They were certainly not any of my doing. And don't you love how my 13-month old is glued to the tube.

...whilst the new TV sat mostly unused in our bedroom. We watched movies on it sometimes and Mark used it for the XBox, but we could never watch anything in peace if Luke was awake. He loves to play on our bed and would just flop around on it the whole time, climbing and trying to throw himself headlong off the edge.

FINALLY the day came when we had a few (hundred) extra bucks and instead of saving it for a looming student loan payment as so-called "smart" people would, we dropped everything and picked up our hutch at Walmart that we've been eying for months.

The kids were super helpful in getting it put together. Ha.

A few hours later:

*Sound of heavenly choirs singing*

(Coincidentally, they sound a lot like U2)

I LOVE IT!! I still feel a little unworthy to have such nice (to us) things in my living room. But I think it makes the whole room look MUCH better. Now to do something about all that rampant beige..........

Oh, yeah.

Mess of the Day

by Luke

I opened the lazy susan for half a minute to get out the cooking spray, and Luke swooped in for the cocoa while I was busy trying not to char his scrambled eggs. Thanks, son! But as a result, I got a hankering for brownies and decided to try my Ghirardelli caramel turtle brownie mix (I also added mini chocolate chips since it it obviously wasn't rich enough) so it turned out quite deliciously in the end. I just wish this kid knew how to do laundry.

Hope you have a Halloween-y weekend!

P.S. Our old TV us up for sale if any of you want it. Cheap.