The Loveseat...

Way back when I was just a student, I found a deal on a love seat in the 'scratch and dent' section of a large furniture store. I was going to be moving to Kingston soon, and the price on the sofa was only $125. I needed furniture, as it was going to be the first time I had lived away from home, so I convinced my parents to drive this love seat all the way from Windsor to Kingston in the back of their mini van (650 km)! They were good enough to do it, and probably spent more in gas then the silly love seat was worth. But, it made me happy.

Well, that love seat lasted us a good long while! It got us through school, and the first five years of marriage after that! Once we upgraded to 'real' furniture, my sister Heather was moving out on her own, and the love seat was passed on to her for her first apartment. She had it for a couple of years, and eventually her dog probably wrecked it. It wasn't great to look at, but it was neutral in colour and it served us well! And all for only $125!

So, the love seat is now gone....probably sitting in a landfill somewhere in Ontario.

Fast forward about three more years, to someplace south of Boston, MA. The other day I was out with the kids on our way home from a music class and on the side of the road someone had put in their trash a love seat IDENTICAL to the one that we had so many years ago!

Our love seat was purchased in Canada...10 years ago.....at a furniture chain that doesn't exist in the US. This love seat was sitting on the roadside in rural Massachusetts....!!

Besides being a very strange coincidence, seeing it took me on a trip down memory lane. Way back to when we were first starting out....and we had no idea all of the exciting things that our futures held together.

Now we are quickly approaching our 10th wedding anniversary (August 9th!), and as the days tick by I find myself reflecting more on the 10 years passed and hoping that the next 10 years will be half as fulfilling as they have been.