New dining room chairs

Some of you probably remember when I wrote about reupholstering the chairs that someone gave us when we bought the conference table from them. Those chairs looked great, but where kind of bulky, and didn't give us the increased seating space we wanted when we bought the bigger table. On Friday, I bought 14 chairs from a private seller - he listed them as conference chairs, which is officially what we already had. But in the picture, I saw that they were standard width, and attractive looking. Since they were made for the commercial market, they are supposed to be nearly indestructible (though as I said to dh, I don't know if the makers reckoned on a large family using them!). They have a 'mountain backed' chrome frame with super comfy cloth seats and backs. The seller used them for monthly meetings in his home for his business, and paid $100 new for each one. They are in great condition, and he sold them to me for $15 each. :)

Dh is really glad I got them. The dining room feels larger and more comfortable with these chairs replacing the old one. Our dining room isn't too big, so it makes a big difference. Whenever someone sits down in them, they sigh and tell me again how comfortable they are. That should fade in the next day or so. :)

What did we do with the other chairs, you may be wondering? Since I got them for free, and reupholstered them with material that was free, I didn't feel like selling them, even though they were very nice looking after all of our work. I posted them as a giveaway on our local Craig's list and put them behind the garage for the first taker to come get them. Within a half hour, they were gone, to a very happy couple! It's such a nice feeling to do something good for someone else, and that feeling is worth more than the money I could have sold them for.

On a separate note - I do a fair amount of posting regarding homeschooling and parenting on a couple of private boards/lists that I'm on, and never put those posts here because I know some of you are on one or the other of those list and I didn't want to bore anyone. But I've realized that the info I shared in those places would probably be of interest to most of you who haven't seen it. Since I usually write about the same topic twice without a request for it, you don't end up seeing alot of those thoughts here, so I will try to put up some of that for you in the coming days/weeks. For those it's repetitive for, my apologies!

We'll be busy with our usual Sunday afternoon routine for this season, cheering on our boys who play baseball. The entire family goes to every game, and though it's a long afternoon (each of the boys is in a different league so we spend about 4 hours out, first watching the younger league play, then the older league), it's something we enjoy sharing. Enjoy your Sunday!

Avivah