Making it Work

It's Wednesday again, and I am posting. It seems that I make the time to post on Wednesdays. I don't know why, but that has been the way that it has worked out lately. Over the past week, we have had torrential downpours, summer like weather, and today almost frost. There is a frost warning for tonight, into tomorrow morning. I guess we have run the gauntlet of the weather spectrum. I don't get it, but I accept that I cannot do anything about it, so whay complain. Today, my new furniture is comming, we ordered it about two and a half weeks ago. It was time, we have had the same furniture for 10 years, since we moved into the house, and we bought it at a local (now defunct) department store, in their clearance warehouse. We bought the couch and loveseat for 650 dollars, so I think we have gotten our money's worth out of the pieces. In fact, when you sit on the couch, you are practically sitting on the floor. Needless to say, it wasn't made that well. I never had end tables, until this year, I took my mother's when we cleaned out her house. I always had a coffee table, but I also took my
Mom's to match the tables. I put mine in the basement, (it is a "finished"one) with the old furniture that my in laws gave us for that, now the kids have a place to put more stuff! My basement needs to be cleared out! But anyhow, we could neverafford a matching end table and coffee table combo, so, I used wooden folding snack tables and I had the pine coffee table, that I also purchased at the same above mentioned warehouse. They were the same color wood, so it wasn't that bad. (Yeah, right!) Hey, I'm not complaining, it worked functionally. I am a girl who believes in the addage, if it works, it's fine. I have lived with hand me downs for quite a while. The only brand new piece in my living room was my hope chest that my parents gave me when I was married. It ws one that I fell in love with when I worked as a cashier in Patchogue. I walked by it everyday in a store window, I just loved it. I would stop and stare for a few minutes, and move on. When my Mother asked if I wanted one, I said "yes," but I didn't want to ask for it, it was pricey. She told me it didn't matter, that I should have what I wanted, it was ok, so, I showed it to her. It took forever for it to come in, it ws back ordered, but it came in before I was married, and it was mine! the rest of our stuff was pieces from this person, that person, yard sales, and the like. We had the mixed up decorating technique, hey it worked. I didn't have a bedroom set until a couple of years after we moved in to this house. The boys' beds and dressers are still handme downs. Cassidy's too. It works. That is my motto. If I can paint it, stain it or leave it alone, I will and I will make it work. I guess that is my motto, I will make it work in my home, it will look fine with a little decoration, or fixing up.

Well, I guess that will be that for this week, I emptied my head, and hope that I didn't bore you guys too much.