Lamps and Backyard Boxes
We ordered new lamps for the living room a loooong time ago and they finally arrived, so we picked them up at the furniture store today.
Beloved put the two boxes in the back of the van, and I wondered which one contained the floor lamp because neither box seemed tall enough.
Having never before purchased a lamp costing more than $50, I mistakenly assumed that when you pay a bajillion dollars for a specially-ordered floor lamp that it arrives as a fully assembled lamp. Do not be misled, any of you shopping for floor lamps! All floor lamps come in pieces with a long wire through the parts, whether you buy them at Wal-Mart for $10 or a fancy furniture store for way, way more.
The kids were asking to play with the boxes before we even got home.
Remember how we purchased a lovely jungle gym and Beloved sweat and labored for days to get it all put together? Well, the boys were just as thrilled with the lamp boxes as they were with the jungle gym.
First they pretended that Sparkle was a daddy lion and Pumpkin was a mama hippo, and they lived next door to one another in their separate caves.
Pretty soon someone was invading someone else's space.
And things quickly degraded from there into some kind of wrestling match.
That's really pretty much how it always ends up around here anyway...
