Ours will be on Thursday anyway. I guess that is what you do with it when you are finished with it…or when your child projectile vomits all over it. At the time, the only thing I could think of was to drag it outside and hose it down. Which I did. Probably not the best decision in the world – but when you experience what I experienced – your brain isn’t functioning quite properly.

In any case, the new furniture will be here on Thursday. Which brings me to my next thought – shopping for living room furniture is my new worst nightmare (just behind projectile vomiting). Maybe the people that design furniture don’t have a functioning brain either. I mean, if I liked the style, the color was horrid. If I liked the color, the style was ridiculous.

It was to the point where I found the perfect style – the color was a lime/apple green – and I almost went for it. I like simplistic lines when it comes to couches…and all of them are either fuschia or white. Which is not doable with small children. The fuschia will throw them into a seizure and the white will have a stain in 30 seconds flat.

When I found the color I like – earth tones – the style would be huge, puffy, eat-you-alive type sofa. I don’t want to feel like my couch is attacking me. Unfortunately, we had to settle. After hours of shopping with a 4 year old and (almost) 2 year old, I was ready to buy a set of camping chairs and call it good.

We settled on a color we liked and found the least eat-you-alive sofa possible. But the best part is that you can pay extra to have the fabric treated. In other words – if there is a non-removable stain on the furniture, they replace it.

So next time the girls have a little tummy ache, and the couch is looking a little drab, I’ll just give them a pitcher of cherry KoolAid and tell the to go relax on the couch!