Behind the Fridge and the Garden Hose

Let me start this post by saying that in the six years I lived in my house without the girls, nothing has ever fallen behind the fridge.

The other day I heard something fall and turned around. Sara was standing by the fridge looking suspicious. I asked her, "What just fell?"

She said, "Nothing." I looked everywhere on the floor and truly there was nothing. I was confused, it had been a big noise.

"Sara, what was that?"

She looked at the counter and back at me, guilty, but still not confessing.

"Sara!" in my newly acquired stern mom voice.

"Something behind the fridge."

"What?" I leaned over the counter and looked behind the fridge in the small space I have between the fridge and the wall."

There was my plastic pitcher. I didn't think anything would fit behind the fridge and I guarantee it didn't just fall there. Sara was supposed to be putting it away, but it goes in a high cupboard, (not by the fridge.) Instead of putting it away she had put it there. I told her she would have to get it, so I pulled out the fridge and she climbed behind it and began to pull things out.

The Pitcher

A water bottle

The measuring cup for our air popper

A bag of very hard marshmallows

One solid hot dog bun

A hard- black banana

A green-moldy cinnamon roll

A bag of stiff hoagie buns

A squash

The tray to our toaster oven

A spoon

All of which I am 100% positive did not "fall" behind the fridge. The question Jeff and I have is why did they put them behind the fridge? We decided it is where they put things when they don't know where they go, or are too lazy to move them off the counter when they are doing dishes. Even if by some miracle they accidentally pushed them there, they couldn't have done it without knowing.

Judging by Sara's face as she pulled each item out, she is probably responsible for most of it.

A few of those of things I had been looking for, for months. I had searched everywhere for the thing to our toaster oven and our popcorn popper. Of course, the girls had never seen them. The hard-brown banana explains the unidentifiable stench in our kitchen, the source of which, we never discovered. Kids!

The Garden Hose

The other day as I was walking out to the garden, I noticed this hose going into the bathroom window.

Knowing Lena was supposed to be cleaning the bathroom, I hollered up into the window, "What are you doing?"

She poked her head out. "When I clean the shower I get wet, so I use the hose and don't get wet."

I laughed and told her, "I enjoy your creative thinking but don't do that again."

"Why?"

Honestly, how do you even answer that? Because???