Coffee Table

When we first bought furniture, it just seemed like a normal thing to buy a coffee table. We quickly learned they were nothing but the cause of many accidents and the perfect teething/chew toy. So we moved it away from the living room for awhile.

As the children got older and our furniture started to wear thin, we sold it all and bought new furniture WITHOUT a coffee table (that was about 5 years ago). This wasn't high quality furniture and we really bought it to endure more child-like fun - spit-up, vomit, poo, pee, blood, spills, boogers, snot, etc. You name it, that couch has seen it. Last year we both had that urge to complete the living room with a brand new coffee table and quickly bought one.

But then we moved! And with moves, comes more changes. When we moved into our new house we kept that childproof furniture and moved it upstairs. Downstairs we had the priviledge of purchasing new furniture. The kids are older, they can make their vomit (most times) to the bathroom, and hopefully they won't be downstairs too often sitting on our brand new, nice, expensive furniture.

Boy were we wrong again! Take a look at our coffee table when we moved in....

Seriously? How does ONE drawer go missing in a move? It's gone, nowhere to be found. I guess it's a good thing we didn't pay too much for it and it's upstairs in the family room! But it really is an eye-sore. A conversational piece too!

And here is our NEW coffee table, downstairs where the children surely wouldn't play???

Yes, you are seeing that correctly, it's striped. This poor thing has been jumped on, kicked, shoved, flipped over, ran into, pushed into and any other form of torture my children can possibly think to put each other into.

At this point, I'm not sure Jason and I will ever buy another coffee table. Just look at the two we have!