My kids and I love to go geocaching and letterboxing. It is a wonderful family activity that gets us outside and exploring new places and things. The thrill of the hunt and the excitement of locating the treasures keeps us coming back for more. Not surprisingly, Little Miss loves geocaching and letterboxing the most out of all of my kiddles. Naturally, she is at the perfect age for hiking trips deep into the woods. And at her age, she understands the process the best. It can be difficult taking the boys on one of these expeditions, though. Chub-Chub loves to find treasures and is quite the willing participant, but he is still a toddler and, as such, can be challenging to reign in on long nature walks. Miracle Man is an entirely different story. He gets too hot or too cold...and cranky very easily. He tires sooner than his siblings, and he gets easily distracted. As for me, chasing after two toddlers while trying to keep up with Little Miss is painful and exhausting for me at the moment. Long story short, we don't go letterboxing or geocaching nearly as often as we would like to. In fact, as the boys have gotten older (and less easily confined to their stroller), we have gone on fewer and fewer of these types of hunts (and none for this year). I am sure that, with time, it will get easier and we will be able to geocache and letterbox all over the place once again.
Lucky for me, I recently discovered that each day I do my own treasure hunting of sorts. When I vacuum. Of course there is the usual dirt, dust, cat hair, dog hair, etc. But each time I vacuum, I am always surprised at what is lurking in the nooks and crannies of my house a mere day after the last time I plugged it in and began a search. So while I cannot go on geocaching outings as often as I would like, I take comfort in knowing that each day, there will be a new cache to find right inside my own home with my favorite machine, the vacuum.
Here is a list of the top 10 most interesting items found in today's vacuum cache:
10. Cheerios...yes, AGAIN! Today's location: the couch. Because everyone knows that you simply cannot watch the Smurf movie without cheerios, mommy.
9. A tiny leaf...I'm not quite sure how that got into the living room. Are we growing a tree inside our house? Am I that oblivious to the sheer number of living things in our home that I did not notice an entire tree growing in here?? Alas! It's gone now, anyway!
8. A black olive...so glad it was in the kitchen where it belonged at least!
7. Kitty litter...always, always, always. Today, though, it wasn't just scattered pieces kicked off paws from jumping out of the litter box. Nooooooo, today, there was a whole pile of litter next to the litter box (obviously in an attempt to cover up a stinky floor tile).
6. Dried up playdough. Of course.
5. A paperclip...ummmm, do we even USE those in the house? I can't remember the last time I took out a paperclip.
4. An earring backing...we should own stock in the company that makes these things!
3. A feather. Nope, we do NOT, nor will we EVER own any kind of bird! NEVER!!! Did the cat bring it in the house, then? And, if so, where IS the rest of what used to be attached to said feather???? YIKES!
2. A turquoise, high heeled Barbie shoe...I guess her prince won't be able to see if the shoe fits her now!
1. A cheese stick wrapper. On.the.floor. (Oh no you didn't!) Now, I KNOW that none of my children would ever throw their wrapper right on the floor. There must be some logical explanation for this. Like: Chub-Chub's arm broke off and was swallowed up by the dog just as he was about to put the wrapper in the garbage maybe? Or perhaps Miracle Man tripped over a giant elephant with pink polka dots on his way to throw it out, and that caused him to miss the garbage can completely? No, these stories could not be true you say? Then what the ever-loving-heck caused the cheese stick wrapper to end up on the freaking floor for crying-out-loud? A child carelessly dropped it? Nahhhhh! That's too far-fetched for sure!
Well, there you have it. My cache for the day! I can't wait to see what tomorrow brings!
Yours in geocaching,
Marathon Momma
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