Time for the vittles to get a new nest.

I still have more to share about our thrill ride in Tucson, but it'll have to wait for another day. For now, the latest.

Our dinette is, well, horrid.
It's old.
It's small.
It's falling apart.
It bears the marks of little Picasos (as in markered all up), and, like the etched and scratched erosion of a shoreline, its top layer is long gone. And frankly, if I do say so myself, the dang thing has just seen its better day (which wasn't yesterday or even the day before).

So today we did it. We went out and sought a replacement. Our goal was to go store to store until we'd hit every store in town (because we don't have anything better to do than to drag four kids into glass palaces and watch them not break anything, lol).
We started with the first store.
"Nice stuff y'all got here but if we're walking out with that table and chairs over there, you're dropping the price $300 and that's not including wiping away taxes and delivery." HA!
We walked out, heads held high, while they simultaneously groaned and laughed. I knew we should have let our monkeys have-at-it on their oak "playground."

Wouldn't you know it, we got to the second place and BAMM! A really nice dinette within our budget (you might recall we had an actual furniture budget too, until our furnace failed last November. As winter blew in. And Christmas too. And we kissed that furnitue budget goodbye just. like. that. Swell! Thankfully, the dinette money was saved seperately and we didn't have to use it too, to pay for that furnace repair)

So, even though my family room couch is a golden retro wreck beauty from eras gone by, I'm thrilled to say that we will no longer have to squish in around the dinette we outgrew two kids ago. Our new dinette should arrive in 4-8 weeks and I, for one, cannot wait! Here's a little look-see (and btw, the paint on our walls is very similar to the color in the promotional image so you're getting a little pseudo glimpse into my home).



We like mission style and this table has the requisite clean square lines. But the black windsor chairs anchor the wood tones so they are not overpowering in the midst of other similar woods in the home and the curved line of the chairs softens the overall effect. Love it.

Toni