Alrighty. Soooo I'm putting this out here in hopes that Jason will see this
before he gets home. (He's not nearly the devoted reader he should be, so this may not work at all.) My plan is for him to see it, freak out away from the house, and then be calm and rational about the whole thing when he gets home.
As I mentioned last week, JR is taking piano lessons this year. Again, this is not something we rushed into. He's been asking for over a year to take lessons. I kept telling him 'no' (since I hated piano lessons so much), but he kept asking. I finally agreed to let him take, but how do you take piano lessons if you don't have a piano?
Of course I didn't want to buy a piano since:
1. I'm still not convinced he's going to continue to think piano is "fun".
2. We literally don't have the room.
So I decided to buy a keyboard. (Jason wasn't intersted in the buying process since 'piano' is not another word for 'hunting'.)
I found an 88-key keyboard on Amazon, got a seal of approval from our friend,
Mark, (who plays the keyboard at church) and ordered it.
I envisioned JR sitting on his bed with his
little keyboard in his lap practicing away.
Um yeah, not so much.
I started getting a little nervous when UPS Freight called me and asked if a tractor-trailer could get down our street. Then the UPS driver called to confirm I was home and said, "I have a piano for you!"
And even better than the giganticness...It came in pieces.
*Clap, Clap, Clap* Yeahhh Jason! You get to put it together! *And I'm still clapping excitedly*
(Does my sing-song, happy voice and claps make the
getting to put it together more desirable? I was hoping so.)
Now some of you might be wondering (as my opera singing friend,
JD, immediately asked) "Didn't you know how big it was when you ordered it?" Well, yes, the size dimensions were listed, but measurements fall in the math category, soooo....I just kind of breezed by those.
Okay. So Jason, take a deep breath. (And maybe one more.)
Here it is.
And here's the rest of it
And in case you're math challenged, size comparisons: