Woo hoo it's finally here!!

Well it's been two months since I ordered it but my couch is finally here. It arrived on Tuesday. It was great to go down and put the balance on my Credit card (for the airmiles) knowing that I am going to the bank today to pay it off with the cash that I saved up for it.

However it was not all joy and giggles. Getting the darn thing into the basement was a nightmare. I am glad DS1 is old enough and strong enough to do the heavy lifting. We took the legs off and managed to get the first piece down the stairs but getting it around the corner into the recroom was a big challenge. We had narrow space to work with. It took about 20 minutes of shifting and angles to get it in there.

Then came the second piece. Larger. With the joining part so it was much harder to work with.

We had to take the door off to the house to get it in through there. Good times. We haven't had that door off in awhile and those pins were stuck tight. When we finally got it down the stairs, it became apparent that it was not going to make that turn. The extra length and the sides put us about 6 inches too large to get through as we played angles. We tried this way and that. high and low. rotating it. We got it stuck a couple times in the narrow hall as we tried to turn and approach the door differently.

Apparently asking my husband at that point "you DID measure before I bought it like I reminded you???" was a bad idea. Furniture moving, furniture assembly and hanging wallpaper = reasons to divorce.

At one point he dropped it on DS1 as DS1 was wriggling under it (as per his father' s instructions) to move into laundry room to lift that way. Nothing broken on his arm, but close.

I finally called my dad. He's really good at reading angles and such. I promised him he would not have to lift....just give us directions or tell us it was impossible. After all, he's 74 and shouldn't be lifting tons. He's stubborn however and really hard to tell not to do something.

We got it in. He saw an angle we hadn't seen in the heat of the moment.

Thank god for dads!!!

It looks really good down there. There's tons of room to sit and it's very comfortable. The cats were excited beyond belief and took no time at all deciding where they wanted to sit when the boys were down there.

Was it wrong that when I went downstairs this morning to change a load of laundry and chase DS1 upstairs to the shower, that I said good morning to the couch? lol

After 6 weeks of sitting on the floor, the boys are very much appreciating the luxury of a couch. DS2 says I feel like I'm so high up!! I say 'well anything is higher up than the floor darlin' LOL

It's bought.It's paid for. It's mine! wheeeeeeeeee