Ten Years

Ten years. That is how much time it takes Alan to finally get fed up with the legs that weren't attached to the love seat.  When we bought our first house in Missouri, we bought a new couch for the living room.  When family came to visit to see the house for the first time, they bought the matching love seat for us.  Only issue was the only one left in the store was in the scratch and dent section because it did not have feet attached.  So we went to the a hardware store and bought feet to put on the love seat.  Granted, they were just an inch or two shorter than the ones on the couch and the screws meant to hold them in place were too short to actually do their job properly.  Alan kept saying he would fix it.  We are now on our third house and ten years down the road.  Today Alan was rearranging furniture for me (Yup, I'm so nice to leave all these wonderful chores for him when he returns.  Don't want him to feel like he's not needed around here.) and decided the time had finally come to fix the legs on the love seat.  Gabe helped run the drill of course.  Granted, the couch and love seat are the first items of furniture on my list to replace once we pay off all of our debt but I have a feeling that is a couple years away.  Until then we will live with the slip cover look since they are super comfy.  Just not the greatest things with small children around we learned a few months after buying them.

Alan also decided to move his office furniture into the pantry downstairs and move the pantry into the storage room that had his computers and such in it.  It does make sense to actually have all of the food storage in one room rather than having one fridge in the hall, one in the office and the freezer and dry goods in the pantry.  He promises me he will now clear out the extra servers and spare computer parts and pieces so that I can have another set of shelves for our food storage.  This will get me even closer to my goal of having a 4 to 6 month supply of food and other essentials in the house for us at all times.  Yes, I am one of those people who thinks you should be super prepared because you never know what is going to happen in the future.  I sleep better at night knowing we are prepared if Alan should get laid off or get sick or some emergency hits.