Best Seat in the House

We recently got a little bit of tax money back...always a huge "yay!"...and were able to pay off our credit card ("Four" is already an expensive little booger) and have a little bit left over to finally get a second couch. (We've only had one couch since we moved several years ago, and with 5 (soon to be 6) butts trying to sit on it heaven forbid anyone come over to the house and try to sit down. So it was time...and to The Dump we went. (We'd looked at Haynes and I'd looked at Craigslist for literally about 2 months and couldn't find a single thing that fit the space we had that didn't look like someone's dog used it for a snack.)

The couch we bought was more a loveseat sized contraption, which is what we needed in our not-so-huge living room. (But we have more space in other areas of the house, so I'll take a smaller living room any day!) The kiddos were pretty excited to spot it when they got back from their stay with Billy's parents, and it's quickly become the spot where they all need to sit. (While the other, larger, closer to the TV couch sits empty.) The other night I sat down on the new couch to write a few blog posts and pay a few bills, literally the first time I'd sat down all day, and the first time I'd actually sat on the new couch other than to make sure it wasn't terrible to sit on when we bought it. This is what happened:

Suddenly this was THE spot to be in the house. I secretly felt pretty darn important, even though I had zero elbow room to type in, as I noticed the other big couch sitting over there all by its lonesome. Love that these two handsome guys wanted to smoosh into the loveseat to snuggle instead of having their nose in the TV. I'm a pretty lucky lady, and definitely have the best seat in the house.