May 30th, 2009

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Chair for the Nursery

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Dave and I have been looking for a nice chair for the baby’s room.  One that would be comfortable enough to use for nursing and just generally sitting in.  We decided upon getting a “club chair” style chair, but the ones at the furniture stores were anywhere from $200-$1000+ for anything we even remotely liked.  So our minds turned to finding a used chair, somewhere.  Every yard sale we’ve past lately we’ve slowed to look for a chair.

This morning Dave had plans at his parent’s house so I went “garage sale-ing”.  After passing probably 15+ garage sales with mostly junk for sale, I found myself in a tangled subdivision neighborhood with several sales.  Finally, it dawned on me to ask God for a little assist.  So I said a little pray real quick that I find something, hopefully a chair, that would be useful furniture in the baby’s room at one of the sales I saw coming up in front of me.  No joke the very next sale I came across had a cream colored chair sitting in the drive-way gleaming in the sunlight.  I thought the price was surely going to be $80+ or it would be stained and gross, but I’d check.  I should trust God more…  The price said, “make an offer”, the stains were very, very limited, it looked sturdy and when I sat in it…perfection.  So I asked the owner what she was hoping to get for the chair, all the while thinking to myself that $25 would be a superb amount.  And what did she say…yup, $25!

So there you have it.  God’s chair for our baby’s room.  I might or might not try finding a slip cover for it or asking my mom to make covers for the arms and maybe the seat, but it really is ready to use even if I don’t cover it in anyway.  And it also fit perfectly into the back of the SUV!