Adult - Free Zone

Sometimes I feel like my home is an "Adult-Free" zone rather than the normal "kid-free" zones that you often see.  I often long for a room that is totally kid-free.  You know, the room where I can put a china cabinet and not worry about it getting bumped and everything broken.  The room where I can have nice couches and be confident in the fact that they will not get jumped or peed on.  It often seems as though that day will never come.  I know in reason that it will, but then I wonder how quiet and sad my life might be.  I think I'd rather have the used couches and my china tucked safely in the cedar chest!  

The transformation to our current "adult-free" home started as soon as Hunter began crawling.  We removed the beautiful coffee table that we were given as a wedding gift (just 1 year before).  We were too concerned with him falling and hitting his head on one of the sharp corners.  Not long after that we installed the cabinet locks on the kitchen drawers and entertainment center doors.  My living room has not been free of toys, baby swings, bouncy seats, exersaucers, etc. for 4.5 years now.  The most recent transformation occurred when my husband installed a basketball hoop on my bedroom door in the living room.  Not a nice looking real basketball hoop, but a plastic Nerf hoop with a cardboard backboard.  Apparently the sticky strips that came with it were not sturdy enough for Lincoln and Hunter's game, so he took it upon himself to secure it with a screw - through my door!  I've been informed that it will stay this way until we sell the house...if that ever happens.