Hidden Treasure

Today I have been picking up around the house. And I mean really picking up. I've cleaned off the pool table (it is centrally located in our house and is a huge "I'll put this away later" magnet), sorted the magazines and catalogs in my magazine basket and various other tasks. The thing about doing this is what hidden treasures I find that the kids have left behind. I found "bouncy balls" trapped between table legs and the wall, the powdered sugar shaker under my scrapbooking table and a few odds and ends in the pockets of the pool table. I have learned to occassionally check the latter. Allison has taken to putting things in the pool table pockets. I have found rubber stamps, a small cement mixer truck, a sippee cup (thankfully it was one from that day!), and Nick's pacifiers to name a few things. (More on the various locations of Nick's pacifiers in another post). My slippers have their mate again at the foot of my bed and later today, I will put the pieces of various toys back with their friends in each of the kids' rooms. Right now it's on to the laundry that was covering our bedroom floor (and I do mean covering - almost serving as another layer of flooring)...more later...