An Unnecessary Purchase

I confess, I had a Pottery Barn gift card that was burning a hole in my pocket. So when I happened to have ventured to a mall today that not only had a Pottery Barn, but a Pottery Barn Kids, I was elated. I had been wanting to get Kaelyn an armchair for her room because 1.) I think they are adorable, and 2.) She is starting to climb on everything, and I reasoned that this would be something good for her to climb on.

I was excited that they had them, but I thought that I would do the right thing and check with my better half because clearly the price of the chair exceeded the amount of my gift card. "Does she really need that?" he asked. "What, is the gift card going to go bad if you save it?" "I'm not saying no, I just think you need to really think it over before you spend money on a child's armchair," was his response.

I figured that the amount of time it took me to decide between the green or the purple polka dots constituted "thinking it over" so a few minutes later, I walked out with a green armchair.

Not 2 minutes after assembling it, this is the video I took. So when my child, who is clearly a genius and knows that a good armchair deserves a good book, is reading at an 8th grade level in Kindergarten, I will turn to Charley and tell him that I guess it wasn't an unnecessary purchase after all. Victory is mine.