Make your life for you.

I made my house to what serve my needs and my children's needs. I have my love seat in the kitchen, Why? I could never get Binky to sit and eat in the kitchen he always wanted to eat on the love seat, so I moved the sofa to the kitchen and now he eats in the kitchen. Funny but true. I no longer have a living room, I have a play room, there is a crash pit in my playroom where Binky likes to wrestle with Inky, and where Inky shows me new moves that were not in this years Olympic floor exercises. All the toys in bins with the exception of annoying toys, which are at this point, Thomas trains sets and any form of blocks. There were several tables in the room, but the coffee table had  to go, Binky was using it to try to hang from the ceiling fan, there was a Thomas table, which had to go because Inky was using it as a trampoline, which is funny because we have a trampoline, which is near one of the windows which the kids like to look out into our backyard and see the funny birds and squirrels. The dream is to make it a complete sensory rooms, like I see at Binky's OT place. Binky has been very anxious lately and no matter what we do, we can seem to get him to stop throwing stuff,  I recently gave away all of my wine glasses, I look funny using a plastic mickey mouse cup, but at least I won't have to worry about shattered glass anymore. I have packed away all of my coffee mugs, and plates and bowls are gone too.  We use paper plates and bowls, for two reasons one, we are too busy to keep up the demands of dishes we even have a dish washer and two Binky would open the dishwasher and take plates and like at a Greek wedding would OPA! it all over the house, I have to say I was impressed the day the plate came flying over the banister and didn't break.  I have tried all the baby proof locks but both Inky and Binky are too smart for those now, so I am stuck with just staying alert at all times. Our bedroom has the DVR and if I am nice, which is most of the time, I love hanging out with the kiddos we watch some Disney Channel show, before bed. There is no rule you have to have a sofa in the living room, make your life for you, some make think you have lost your mind, and others will be like "why didn't I think of that?"