New Things

I’m sitting here on my new love seat thinking how much I love it. Ten years with the old chair, and I’d gotten to that old man point, of being used to how my bottom fit in the sagging seat. Why bother getting anything new?

Of course there was the day that I sat down and a spring came up and well, we just don’t talk about it! I did flip the chair and managed to sort of put things together, but I was going to make the chair last! Sadly, this was not to be the case.

By New Years, the chair was even worse. Hubby decided that we should go out shopping for furniture. At first I knew exactly what I wanted, but I refused to pay that much for a new chair, when my old one was still just fine for the dackels and me.

Then I found the new one, with a great price and I quickly ordered it. It is actually a small love seat, which is larger than my chair with even more room for the dackels and me! Now during the six weeks that I waited, I kept telling myself that I didn’t really need the new love seat.

Then it arrived. The dackels circled the chair, not knowing if they liked it or not. I sat down and felt that my bottom felt great all over the love seat! Best of all…there are no springs coming up from beneath the seat!

I wonder why it is, that when we ourselves need new shoes or a new chair or a new mattress, we don’t see things as a priority?

Maybe it is just me. Maybe it comes from growing up with very little. I learned to make due with what I had.

Anyway, I’m so thankful to Hubby for helping me find this new seat. I really love it!