A friend passed a decorating tip along to me. She said that it is a good idea to have something that’s alive in each room of your house. That got me thinking . . .

A fresh flower arrangement would look lovely in my dining room. I normally try to keep a pretty bowl filled with fruit in my kitchen.

There’s the aquarium in the living room . . . at last check we still had some fish that were alive. Oh yea, algae! Algae is alive! That should count!

What’s next . . . the bedrooms. Well, there is a beautiful plant in the master bedroom but what about the kids’ rooms . . . i ignored saw a cobweb in my 3-yr-old’s bedroom yesterday and we all know what makes cobwebs!!!! Spiders! To be sure there is a lovely, live spider in my daughter’s room at this moment. Now for the baby’s room. I did drop a bottle in her room that rolled under the crib this morning. I didn’t pick it up since I was in a hurry to leave for work. Surely there will be something alive in the fermenting milk if I leave it there long enough.

The bathrooms. Since I can never seem to get into one of my bathrooms when I need to because they are always OCCUPIED I will just count the permanent occupants as my live items for the bathrooms.

But seriously, what I wanted to tell my friend was that I have a hard enough time keeping the alive things OUT of my house (you know, the things that aren’t supposed to live there) not to mention the occasional dead item. I do not have any plans to add anything to my home in the near future that I have to feed, water, pick up behind or wipe it’s butt.

I sure hope that none of my crowd brings home a puppy tonight so that I don’t have to eat my words.