Yesterday Greg and I drove up to Lodi to Ben's Appliances. We hadn't planned on buying anything, since they're so far away we thought the deliver would be outrageous and difficult. We were met by Shawna. An amazingly bright, hard-working, knowledgeable young lady who answered every question, demoed products, called other stores for pricing and beat every price by a lot of money. Then she cancelled the delivery charge! Needless to say, we bought our refrigerator, cooktop, and dishwasher. She saved me from a mistake too. I had planned to get a Whirlpool dishwasher and Whirlpool told me they had a trim kit so it would accept a cabinet face. The trim kit would have shown all the way around the front, making it look hokey. We got a Kitchen Aid, which has the ability to totally look like our cabinets.
Next we went to Escalon to take Greg's mom out for a Mother's Day/Birthday lunch. She told us today was the year anniversary from her heart attack which resulted in a 7-bypass operation and a week in the hospital. She's doing great now.
Next it was off to Modesto to order our sectional. First we stopped to look at dining room tables, but didn't find anything even close to what we wanted. Then we bought the sectional, saving about $300-400 from what it would have cost if we ordered it 6 weeks ago when we found it. We also got $300 in free merchandise to buy during May.
We came home very exhausted. We were blessed by a friend who came over to pick up some items and he gave us grout and paint advise for our living room. The kids left to go see the high school drama, Greg gave me a back rub, and by 6:45 we were falling asleep. I didn't wake up until 4 hours later and talked with Mark about the play. We didn't even hear them come home! We kept sleeping all night. Boy, did we need it!
We're donating our sofa, loveseat, and table next weekend, so we'll be without living room furniture for about a month. Kristen offered us her bean bag ottomans in her room to sit on. Should be fun!
Today Greg will be destroying our patio. He didn't get to it yesterday. Me, I'll be ironing, reading, exercising, and resting. It's good to be home.
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