A Long Time Coming

I'm super excited to say that this morning my tv was finally hung! I would say "new" tv but we've had it since December just sitting in our den, not being used. Yes, I said not being used. My brother offered several times to take it off our hands for us, but I turned him down. Isn't he so kind? We kept putting off hanging it because we were house shopping and didn't want to hang a tv in a house we were about to sell. But, we've decided to stay here in our house so up it went. I'd like to say that my extremely handy husband did it, but life is a little too busy for him right now. So I called up my favorite new handy man, Jose, and he came right over. He and his friends even put in an electric outlet behind the tv so there would be no cords hanging out. Now I just have to wait for the cable man to come hook us up.

You can look forward to pictures of me laying on my bed enjoying this new hunk of luxury. It's going to be great. =)

I have to add that this is such a far cry from where we started out in our marriage. When we first married in July of '99, we decided to not have a tv. We thought that would be best for our relationship. After a few months, a brought home my little 6 inch black and white tv from my parents' house to watch the news on. When we moved to SA, John's grandparents gave us an old color tv that was about 19 inches. We had to get basic cable so we could pick up some channels. Then a year or so later, we got a 32 inch tv for Christmas from John's parents. Along with that came the intense desire for a few more channels. We got complete basic cable. Very nice. Sometime along the way I figured out that for about the same amount of money, we could get Dish network with DVR, so we changed to that. Then last Christmas, we got this little baby. And now we're putting it in our bedroom! Something we said we'd never do! But after 8 years of marriage I think the rules change just a little.

We do have 3, almost 4, kids you know. I think the rules need to change........=)