we were on the go like wild fire this past weekend. friday night we headed out to do some mattress shopping. with will’s upcoming surgery we thought it really made sense for us to go ahead and purchase the king sized bed we’ve been dreaming of. we went to haverty’s and tested out about 30 different styles and brands. we felt a little like goldilocks, but felt we really narrowed down exactly what we were looking for by being thorough. after looking at haverty’s for about an hour we decided it was time for some dinner so we headed to waraji. we always love waraji’s sushi and were not disappointed by this visit.
saturday morning we woke up early and headed to the farmers market. we picked up some heirloom tomato plants (3 different kinds, one purple, one green, and one pink), some thai basil, some organic honey, some red pepper sauce, and some lime cookies. we then got our traditional wake forest coffees and hit the road to furniture land south in high point. back when mom and dad were looking for furniture for their new house, i went with them to this massive location where you can find furniture for up to 70% off retail. i figured this would be a good spot for us to go look for beds. we arrived at about noon and headed to the clearance center. we tested out all of their mattresses and found one we really liked for $200 less than haverty’s price. after we selected that we headed to the regular store to look at their bed selections. with 4 floors of furniture spread over two buildings they have just about everything you could imagine. we worked with an associate who informed me that they were able to order the bed of my dreams, but it was not on the sales floor.
you see, i have wanted a particular bed frame since 2007. i found the picture online and book marked it to occasionally look at it and drool over it (knowing i could never get it because it was too costly.) however, i figured we would just give it a shot and see how much it costs, after all everything is discounted! the sales associate drew us out some maps and told us she would call will’s cell when she got the pricing on that bed. we wandered around for hours, not really finding exactly what we wanted – and did see a similar bed that we liked, but it was nine thousand dollars! gulp! it was shortly after this that we ran back into the sales associate who said she tried to call us, but left a vm. (when we got home we heard her message on our home machine.) she informed us that the bed i wanted was 60% off the retail price! we were so shocked we told her we would continue to look around, but i confirmed with will that he loved it as much as i did and we thought it was a go. we were so dumbfounded we thought for sure she made a mistake, so we reconfirmed that it was king size and it was for the entire bed, not just the head board etc. she chuckled and confirmed it was for the entire king size bed.
so, after going to the show room and looking at the quality construction of their other pieces, getting warranty information, and hearing how each piece is hand carved and constructed, we decided to place our order. i was still in shock, and think i still will be until the bed actually gets here! now we just have to decide how we want the furniture laid out so we know where this goes when it gets delivered.
we made it home around 9pm on saturday night and headed out to walk the doggies and do some relaxing before we needed to get up at 5:40 the next morning to get ready for sunrise service at church. it was the first easter that i did not dye eggs, and i started regretting not doing this around that time. however, with no dye and no energy no eggs were easterized this year.
wake up time came early on sunday morning and i popped out of bed like a bunny ready to get gussied up for sunday service. we were only 1 minute late for the 7am service, which we were both proud of, since we are famous for being late to everything. the service was small and intimate as we gathered around the 6′ wooden cross on the side of the church. pastor matthew called for us to take stones (we’d previously been asked to gather) and lay them at the base of the cross as a symbol of something that we needed to push/roll aside in our journey with Christ. will and i both found the service very moving and were super happy we’d woken up so early. after the service dave prepared a delicious pancake breakfast and we chatted with everyone before heading out to greensboro.
when we made it to greensboro we checked out some plants at lowes and tried to make a plan to re-organize our front flower beds. we’d had dwarf nandina bushes in our front beds since we moved in, and they were never our favorite. not finding anything we liked at their lowes we decided we’d head to our own store after we got back to wf. later on we headed to print works bistro at the proximity hotel for an amazing easter lunch. we tried escargot for the first time, and i finally found something that will does not like! he made the most terrible face and threatened me with vomit if i made him eat one more bite. we decided he could never be on “no reservations” or “the amazing race” since he had such an aversion. however, i found them to be a lot like clams and mussels and i consumed the entire app myself. after lunch we headed outside to rest on their patio and admire all of their beautiful plantings. once we’d hung out in the sun long enough we decided to make our way back to wf.
we got home, changed clothes, and headed to our lowes to look for nandina replacements. we found 27 plants we thought we needed to take home and promptly filled up the jetta and headed home. i began digging up bushes and before we both knew it we had an entirely new looking front plant bed. bye bye nandina! we both really love the look of the new plant bed, and now we just need to get it mulched and we will be good to go!
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