Not Ready Yet

I've often heard, "Do not buy anything nice while you have [young] children."  And while I've always known this to be true, we witnessed it first hand this past week.  Here's what happened.  About 2 weeks ago, our VCR died.  The reason this is important is because our TV only works through the VCR.  So now, our TV didn't work.  We discussed whether we should buy another VCR (which is getting harder to find these days) which is cheaper or to invest in a new TV, since we know we need to get a new one eventually.  After a few days of discussion and checking out TV's & VCR's, we decided to buy a new TV.  Now today, the only TV's available to buy are flat screen TV's.  This will date us when you discover that our old TV is not a flat screen, so it was rather exciting to think of finally walking into the next century and updating our technology a bit.  We bought a less expensive model though, brought it home, and it worked!  It was all very fun...for a week.  This last weekend, the boys were playing too close to the new TV, which was on a stand and not mounted on the wall, when one of the boys knocked it off the stand and it tipped over.  Immediately we knew something was wrong when the screen was scratchy and blurry.  I felt depressed and upset right away as I realized now we were no longer with a TV that worked, but that we might also be out the money we spent "investing" in a new TV.  The next day, Jeff took the TV back, told them what happened, and they refunded our money.  (So Thankful!) The day after that, I bought a used VCR, hooked it up to our old TV, and now it works again.  We realized through this whole experience many things, but most of all, we are not ready for a flat screen TV (or at least we would need to mount it to the wall).  Lesson learned: we won't be buying anything new, or at least nice, until the boys are older.

The Trusty Old TV