A couple of days ago the kids and I were cleaning the house. I could see and hear the kids chatting away as they gathered up toys in the dining room to take back up to their room upstairs. I was cleaning off the round coffee table in the living room. There were 3 coasters on the table at that time - two stacked in the center of the table and one to the side. I picked up the stray coaster and placed it on top of the other two in the center, walked into to kitchen to get a rag to wipe the table, and when I came back in the room...the coasters had been placed in a perfect triangle at the edges of the table!!! Now, I could have dismissed it if the two coaster had not started out stacked in the middle of the table to begin with. I might have just assumed that I started to stack them up and got sidetracked. (Hey, I have kids...it happens.) Even though I realized that there was NO way that anyone could have moved them - the kids had been in the next room the whole time where I could both see and hear them - I still asked the kids "Who moved the coasters?" They looked at me like I was nuts and obviously had no idea what I was talking about! IWe've never had anything quite like this happen in this house. We've had some activity, but nothing quite that obvious and attention getting. We stacked the coasters back up and then kept an eye on them to see if they were all neatly stacked every time we walked by the room. So far, they haven't moved again :-(
But that experience has me seriously thinking about finally making my Ouija board inspired coffee table!
PEACE,
JESSICA
I just had another experience the other day and I realized a few days later that it rules out my 12 yo being the focus of the activity in our house because he was gone with DH for the weekend.
I was getting ready to make coffee, so I went to our dining room to the chest of drawers where we keep the coffee maker and supplies. The coffee supplies are in the next to the last drawer down, so I have to bend over to get them. I bent over and opened the drawer, pulled out a filter, put it in the coffee maker, then went to the kitchen to fill the pot with water. When I came back, I poured the water in and then opened the drawer to get the coffee beans, but they weren't there. I was a little confused because I always keep them right next to the filters and they were there when I first opened the drawer. I closed the drawer and looked around thinking maybe I had already gotten them out and just didn't remember doing it, but they weren't on top of the chest. So, I went to the kitchen to see if I had carried them with me when I went to fill the coffee pot. No coffee beans. I went back to the dining room and stood there in front of the chest of drawers trying to figure out where I could have put them. I hadn't gone anywhere else but right there and the few steps it takes to get to the kitchen sink. The only thing I could think was that they maybe they had slid to the back of the drawer, so I bent over and opened the drawer again. No coffee beans. I closed the drawer and there's the bag of coffee beans sitting RIGHT between my feet ON THE FLOOR! Now, I know they were not there before I opened the drawer and yet, there they were. I took this pic right afterwards to show people what I'm talking about. You can see the drawer is down close to my feet, so I can't bend over and open it up without pretty much looking at the floor by my feet. How could I miss an almost full bag of coffee beans on the floor when I opened that drawer several times? And even if I HAD missed seeing them or kicking them somehow, how in the world did they get on the floor in the first place? If I had put them on the top of the chest and they had fallen, I surely would have heard them because I was only a couple of steps away the whole time. I'm still scratching my head over this one. Oh, and the bag was sitting upright, not on it's side like it is in the drawer. I can't get that bag to sit upright for anything when I'm scooping the beans. I always have to prop it against something to keep it upright.
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- jessradtke
on Sep. 5, 2009 at 3:10 PM