Week Nine

When I look around the room the first thing I notice is the small piles of toys all over the black and white checker tiled floor. I sometimes think that my kids are setting small landmines as a trap for their father and possibly myself. My advice to anyone that might enter is to step softly or take the chance of an explosion. The saying “its all fun and games until someone loses and eye” was made up for this exact reason. To the left of the couch is the very messy closet. It holds all the odds and ends that I might never need to use. The top of the closet is the only organized area in the entire room. It holds all of the fifty three board games that my oldest son Joshua and I play on a daily basis. Battleship seems to be his favorite at the moment. I think it is because of the cool packaging that the game came in. It is the limited edition of battleship and it came in collectors tin. The tin has an aircraft carrier on the top that reminds Joshua of the tour we took on a navy ship out in Coronado California. He can change his mind about which game is his favorite at least twelve times a month To the left of the bookshelf is the kid’s toy box that can be hazardous to my health so I will keep my distance. The toy box would be compared to a pot of water boiling over. There is Pokemon cards falling out onto the floor in front of the toy box. Then if I look on the right side of the toy box I see My son Samuall’s stuffed animals looking at me, they are caught between the lid and the toy box itself. I think they might be trying to commit suicide just to get out. If I follow the room around to the left I come to a white bookshelf that is three tiers high and full of easy read books. The books are organized by the level of reading, from level one to level eighteen. I bought a lot of these books at flea markets, one of which I bought nine years ago, when I was pregnant with my oldest son. Another book is a Dick and Jane book that I purchased just last year for my son to start school with. Next to the largest of all the land mines is a huge, beautiful, blue, fake velvet couch that was given to me years ago. So I guess I’ll take a break and have a seat. Oh my goodness, this feels so good. As soon as I sat down I felt like the couch had taken full control of my body. I sink in like I'm in quick sand; my body is forced to completely relax in the cushions. On the left side of the couch is a black lever. So of course I pull it gently. Up go my feet like a karate expert doing a high kick. Oh how I love to recline on this couch, although it is a bit of a hassle to get the recliner in the up positions without being launched into the other room. The other downside to the recliner is that if it gets left in the up position, my youngest son Samuall will crawl under the couch. Yes I know it’s funny, but not funny when I’m the one that has to crawl under to pull him out. He bites! So Welcome Please have a seat and make yourself at home.