The Furniture Domain is a huge collection of furniture for every room in the house. I spent the day looking at all the collections of children’s beds and wow, they have a very large collection. We’ve been looking for a bed for Miles, we looked at Target, Ikea, and Sleep Country USA, but were unable to find something interesting and suitable for Miles.

At The Furniture Domain we found lots of options. I haven’t picked one yet because we’re not exactly in a position to buy one yet, but I have been on the hunt and was excited to finally see some bed options. The Furniture Domain has kindly offered one lucky reader of Mom Start a Lumisource Chair.

What is The Furry Pod you ask?

The Furry Pod is a funkadellic stylish chair perfect for any children’s bedroom, or send it off to college with your college graduate this year. These colorful creatures feature thick, shaggy faux fur and comfortable padded mesh cushion. The bottom is rounded for full-tilt play! Great for gaming too as the Black and Green one reminds me of an Xbox 360. They have Built in handle for easy portability.

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Furry Pod in Black and Green or White and Pink.

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Most people spent today, this weekend, last week resting, enjoying the sun or inside a pool. We spent all weekend looking for a new couch. Our current couch is quite an eye sore! It’s black and the cushions are all worn out from my lounging on them while I was pregnant, my husband says it’s just because the couch is almost ten years old, not because of me, but I’m sure it was me. I spent a lot of time on the couch. It is also suffering from some severe cat claw marks.

So from store to store we went searching for the most comfortable place to rest our buts. The kids had a great time and since it rained all weekend it was a great way for the kids to get exercise. I’m sure a lot of the sales associates were a little uncomfortable with my kids jumping up and down testing out the durability of the couches, but I would hate to get home with a couch that isn’t going to stand up. Right?

We tried a place called Scan Design, it was really modern and we found a couch we loved, but it was the first store so we decided to wait. The couches there were modern, and comfortable.

We then had to go and get dinner and while we were eating at the mall we looked at couches at JCPenny. JCPenny customer service was lacking so we decided to leave without fully looking at all of the possibilities.

Home we went and we were an hour late for bedtime. The kids were so GRUMPY.

Day two started late, we went to Macy’s and the customer service there was perfect. He followed us but was far enough back that we felt comfortable looking. We jumped on them, laid on them and tried out every feature. Of course my husband being the man he is fell in love the the Entertainment Theater Style Sectional. I have to admit it was comfortable.

Then we narrowed it down to two, the Theater Style couch and the Anthony. (Why do couches get names?)

But we had more stores to check out. It is all about getting the best price and the most comfort.

We checked out Ethan Allen and although their couches are very comfortable, we couldn’t afford complete customization. We knew exactly what we wanted but once you added any type of fabric, the price goes up, and then up some more. So, I really wanted a naked couch from Ethan Allen. Maybe I should look into covering couches myself.

We checked out two other stores and went back into Scan Design. When we went back in and sat on the couch, yes it was still comfortable, but the couch had doubled in size in our heads so looking at it again we realized that we could get much more couch for the same comfort level at Macy’s. Can you imagine how tired the kids are at this points. We skipped naps on Saturday, Big mistake.

On Sunday, we went to church and took the day off from couch shopping. I think, I actually can’t remember for sure, oh yes I do, we went to Costco and that took up our entire afternoon. We decided to make a decision and picked out a couch, so we spent an hour on Monday just sitting in Macy’s making sure we wanted the couch, I wonder if this is normal behavior for picking out a piece of furniture? We wanted to make sure we had the same sales associate because he was so helpful on Saturday and spent so much time with us. We had to go to lunch and come back to make the final purchase. I talked my husband out of the Entertainment couch, and we purchased the Anthony.

The Dora Christmas Carol DVD comes out soon or is out or I have no idea except that we are watching it today. Ok, so you can purchase it at Amazon.

Dora the Explorer: Dora’s Christmas Carol Adventure

We’ve been listening to Dora’s Christmas CD for a few weeks now and my son has all the songs memorized and now that we have watched the DVD the CD makes sense. All the songs on the CD are from the DVD. It’s crazy but I’m singing the songs all day long now too. Good Grief I just can’t get away from her.

The DVD is very cute and is teaching kids not to swipe. It seems that Swiper has made the naughty list this year and if Dora can’t teach him to stop swiping then he’ll never be good again. So Dora and Swiper travel through time learning to be good for Christmas. My husband and I were actually talking about all the different cartoons that are out there and what we watched and how the cartoon re-makes aren’t as good as the new cartoons like Dora. You know, she is teaching good lessons and  helping the world while care bears and my little ponies don’t do that anymore. They are all about themselves, yes they still have moral lessons but it’s not past them. I’m not sure if that makes sense.

My other News is that Lazy Boy and Nickelodeon have teamed up to make furniture for kids staring Dora and Diego. Lea Furniture is putting out Nickelodeon MyRoom. This new collection was developed in cooperation with Nickelodeon/Viacom Consumer Products and will feature characters from shows including Dora the Explorer, Go, Diego, Go!, SpongeBob SquarePants, as well featuring graphics based on the network’s signature Slime.

 

 

Parents will find that the Nickelodeon MyRoom furniture supports creativity, independent play and customization, which are all part of kids’ development. The collection addresses these elements in six ways:

· Multi-dimensional, open-ended materials and functionality

· Furnishings that form environments and encourage different kinds of play

· Scalable when size matters

· Personal ownership

· Encouraging independence and independent play

· Play time is OK time

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Today I did not get on my computer at all until after my children went to bed. We spend the day as a family and went out and enjoyed the sunshine. We also went out furniture shopping and came home empty handed. We went to IKEA and picked out a table and chair set for our dining room living room.

I must say all the choices at IKEA drive me nuts and made me dizzy. Pick your color, pick your style, pick your size, then look at the thousands of chairs we have (ok, hundreds) and then remember that and pick them up out of our warehouse full of boxes.

We need a table because we are down to three chairs and one of them is about to break and my family is coming to visit us. So we need seating for five adults. I think this is the chair I liked the most. It’s hard to tell in the picture but it is dark brown with a white cushion.

So after IKEA we went to the park to play. My daughter has to warm up to playing. She needs lots of encouragement and help, then she’s off running around. My son, complete opposite. If you let go of him he is off running and you’ll be running after him forever. He’s not even walking yet. Oh the trouble I am in when he starts walking.