In My Home....

I find it interesting how much a home changes over the years.  The little people that inhabit our house now have changed everything.  Our home changes all the time as the needs and interests of our crew changes.  Here is is what you will find now.

In my home:

• There is always a NERF dart hidden under the couch and in the bottom of the laundry basket.
• At least 2 jars of peanut butter are in the pantry at all times.
• There is a plastic axe, originally a part of a fireman costume, that stays in the bottom of my shower.  I have removed it several times, and it always returns.  I gave up.
• Constant kid chatter can be heard.  Sometimes sweet.  Sometime funny.  Sometimes whiny and argumentative.  If this constant chatter stops, kids are either asleep, or doing something very, very bad. 
• There is a little, wild-haired 9-month-old who now believes she runs the place.  She yells at her brothers in her own little language, can climb the stairs in the time it takes for me to put a load of laundry in the dryer, and empties out my kitchen cabinets daily.  
• A pumpkin vine is growing in the back yard from seeds left from last Halloween's jack-o-lantern carving.  It was a fun surprise and now we hope to have our own pumpkins in the fall!  
• It is possible to get ice from the in-door ice maker and find half a fruit pop in your glass that somehow came out with the ice.
• Big game hunting takes place constantly.  If Ryder wears a flower head band instead of antlers, that means he is a girl moose, and not a boy moose as the antlers clearly indicate.
• There is a cute, girly room upstairs that is my favorite place in the house.
• The pillows from the couch are always thrown on the floor.
• Ryder's pockets could contain money, sticks, rocks, or the aforementioned NERF darts.  I dread the day when I wash a pet he has forgotten in his pocket.  
• The ottoman is also a jumping platform, island, safe zone, and table.
• There is a bag of winter footie pajamas in the guest room. I hid them from Ryder so he will not wear them when it is 100 degrees.  Please don't tell him.