A couple of weeks ago, Ben re-arranged our furniture:
1. I felt like it wasted the space behind the couch.
2. It minimized the playing area for the kids in front of the couch.
3. The couch and green chair were wayyy too close together, too. It created a bottleneck if one was headed from the dining room to the back door. My kids are always right in front of me when I'm headed somewhere in the house, and I usually have to side-step them. But I could do no side-stepping because of the bottleneck right there. And because of the closeness of the furniture pieces to each other, the kids decided it would be cool to balance, one foot on the green chair, one foot on the purple couch, and yell, "Hey, Mom! Look at me!!" a million times a day.
4. My diaper-changing floor area was eliminated, so I had to grab the wipes and a diaper and travel to an open area to change Mikey's diaper, instead of dropping down right there where the supplies are kept. (I've never owned a changing table. It was always too expensive. I've changed diapers on the floor for seven years.)
5. Since I spend my whole life on the couch, feeling sick, I usually watch TV. The way the couch was, I could prop myself up and watch TV, straight-on. When the furniture was moved, I had to crick my neck to watch TV. It didn't work out for Couch Potato Kar.
After a couple of weeks, I asked the Benny Man to move the stuff back. Things are back to normal.
Perhaps boring posts like this are why I have, like, two readers...
LOL Kar, I love posts like this!! I do a lot of them!:) I totally understand about the bottle neck annoyance. My kids are always in my way too. And now that we have a dog he's even worse than the kids sometimes! LOL I'm glad Ben put it back. I like the way your furniture is set up, the old way:)
ReplyDeleteBooooo 2 readers.... you SO have more readers than that!
ReplyDeleteMake that 3! Sorry I haven't been keeping up as much, but you are not boring. I love the way you write, it's like being your roomate again, which was too short for my taste!
ReplyDeleteHa ha! After I left your house I thought how rude I was to just sit down on your carpet and change my kid's diapers, so I was so relieved to read this post!!
ReplyDeleteI am one of those people who like to change furniture on a regular basis. I do it once a month or so in the winter time just to change things up cause it gets so boring in the house and in the summer not as much! So now you know two people who move furniture around that much! My mom's house drives me crazy cause they havne't moved their furniture to different places in like 15 years and that is only cause they got new furniture and the last one had been in the same place for a million years.
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