This past week involved a lot of shifting around my little living room.   This was to make room for the Christmas tree.  I bought the cheapest, fake tree I could find.  So, it is actually quite long and skinny.  Which is AOK by me, since my little living room can’t really hold a lot of tree.   Anyway, dealing with the small space and trying to free up room by the windows to make room for a gorgeous, decorated, tall skinny tree was in order.  And guess what we found while moving the couch sectionals around the space…

• 1 remote control
• 1 piece of art from the kids – a picture of a hand-drawn fire truck that was beautifully drawn and colored
• 5 bouncy balls, 1 golf ball, 1 other random ball
• an assortment of Lego pieces
• 1 pair of rabbit ears
• the equivalent of a bowl full of popcorn and unpopped popcorn seeds
• a hair clip
• countless bits of crayons
• some plastic toy bugs
• about 5 marker caps
• 1 empty bottle of children’s play nail-polish
• some kids books
• a few puzzle pieces
• massive amounts of fuzz
• likewise, lots of hardened coal-like guinea pig poop

So, if you are driving yourself crazy trying to find that little “do-dad” that either you are missing, or worse yet, your child is missing (and thus throwing a tantrum and falling to pieces), there could be a possibility that the couch monster that was at my place is now at yours.   It might be worth a look under the couch to see what kind of gold could be lurking…

Have a great week everyone –

– Mama K