Saturday is for shopping

Yesterday Scott had to work in the morning, so I made plans for us to spend the rest of the day working together as a full family to clean the house.  When he got home and heard my plan (and saw the list of chores) he decided that he wanted to take us out to look at a few things we need to buy with our tax refund.  So he got everyone ready while I showered and dressed so that we could go out shopping.

We started with lunch at a local restaurant, getting PJ his first kid meal (he had grilled cheese and fries).

He thought it was awesome.  3 of his sisters had pancakes and the oldest one had spaghetti along with his meal.  I wish I had thought to get a picture of all 5 kids and Scott sitting at the table together, it is a great sight I think.

Then we went to Target and picked up some basics that we needed (vitamins for the girls and me) and rummaged a bit in the clearance sections.  Missa got a book for fluff fun reading, and then I found a coat sized perfectly for PJ to wear next fall and winter marked down.

As you can see, the discount was too good to really pass up.  I got a $33 winter coat for $10, and it is blue too.  I'm going to wash it up this weekend with his sisters' coats (they got muddy with this week's thaw)  and then see if it will work for him now too (I know it is too big though, he wears 12mo and some 18mo in clothes).

Then we went to a couple furniture stores as well.  They were sprinkled through our trip as we passed by them.  See, we need a new sofa and a second set of bunk beds.  Our old sofa was gifted to us by a wonderful family when we moved here almost 5 years ago, and it has given out with kids jumping on and over it.  The cushions are ripping, the arms are torn open, and one seat is almost on the ground because the frame snapped.  It is definitely at the end of its life span.  We found a sectional that Scott and I both fell in love with at one furniture store, but it was more than we had budgeted so we kept looking.

Then we went to DFW in Heath and found the exact same sectional for MUCH less, even less than we had budgeted.  We also checked out bunk beds while we were there, knowing what we wanted and the typical prices for that one.  They had one for well under what we had budgeted there too.  In fact we saved so much on budget buying what we NEED in furniture that we decided to splurge and get ourselves a new bigger dining table that we saw there as well.  Scott put it all on layaway and will make payments on it until we get the tax refund that will allow him to write a check to pay it off and rent a U-Haul truck to pick it all up with (they want WAY too much for delivery, and my van isn't big enough to bring the sectional home in even 1 piece at a time).  By this time next month, we should have a bunch of new furniture in our home.

New sectional, we ordered it in reverse to fit the space it is going better.

The bunk bed.  We also did get the under bed drawers, and picked this one BECAUSE of the drawers built into the stairs.

Our bonus table, it has a leaf in it that expands it to fit our family beautifully with a little room to spare.  No we did NOT get the matching chairs, to do that would have been $500 more that we weren't planning to spend.

Now we just have to figure out what to do with our "small" dining table.  Scott suggested we store it in the garage to use when we have company over for supper so that there is room for everyone at the table, but I'm thinking I want to donate it to charity once I get it fully cleaned up and recovered from our family and then buy a couple of folding tables to use for guests.