The rugs make me feel grown up

The house in which we currently live, just like our previous home, has absolutely no wall-to-wall carpeting at all.  When we first moved into our first home, we loved it because not only did it add to, and fit, the character of the house, my husband was having trouble being around cats and we thought that was our best shot to him being able to live with them.  It worked out well.  Our living room was very large and we had a large area rug in that room.  The kids rooms had fun little area rugs, and our bedroom had a fairly inexpensive area rug.  It was never very soft and with lots of cat vomit over the years, we threw it out when we moved.

Our second home is 100 years newer than our previous home, but the original part of the house had hardwood floors.  The kitchen and family had hardwood installed sometime before we moved in.  We knew that we liked wood floors, and already had some rugs.  The living room rug fit well into our new living room, and the kids' rugs also made the move.  We ended up getting Catherine a more "grown up" rug about six months after we moved.  Very shortly after we moved, I had found some VERY inexpensive area rugs to put into our family room.  They were a long shag, which is "in" these days, and if we purchased two of the rugs we could put them together and have the size we needed.  We had thought about sewing them together because I loved them and they were SO inexpensive.  However, they would also have been perfect to have on either side of our bed in our room.

Time passed, and nothing changed.  I knew what I hoped to do, but with me being a SAHM, the money just wasn't there.  Finally this fall, we are beginning to slowly rebuild our savings.  We also received an unexpected amount from my grandmother for Christmas.  Around the beginning of the year, I was online just kind of looking around.  I found an area rug that was a good size, and I liked it!  It was VERY reasonably priced to start, and was on sale for 15% off.  In addition, I had received gift cards from my in-laws for both my birthday and Christmas, and had some additional coupons from my Christmas shopping.  When all was done, we paid less than $10.00 out of our pockets...we didn't even need the extra amount from my grandmother!  I was so excited and couldn't wait for the rug to arrive.  When it did, we took the old rugs into our bedroom, and got everything all laid out like we wanted.  It's probably a little ridiculous how happy the new rug, and having the rugs in our bedroom make me.  Seeing something like that come together actually makes me feel grown up!