When Tara started crawling, in order to give Bobbie (our cat) a little peace for her digestion, I put a gate up. Bobbie’s food is by the dryer, and there’s a doorway to our tiny laundry space right off the kitchen (God bless the Einspahrs for that little bit of remodeling genius – moving the laundry out of the basement to just off the kitchen), so a gate worked perfectly.
Often people thought the gate was to keep my kids from eating catfood. But realistically, I don’t care if they eat catfood. Who hasn’t? I just wanted to let Bobbie eat in peace, without a toddler trying to sit on her.
Anyway, just recently I decided to remove the gate. I was tired of stepping over it to get laundry done. Bobbie was tired of jumping over it to eat. It got dirty quickly (mostly because Bobbie likes to put her food on the floor before she eats it – apparently in the wild, dirt is considered a seasoning) with dryer lint and uckies that would drift from the kitchen floor (or be tossed by the man-child at the kitchen table).
So the gate came down. And look at the beautiful results! Removing that gate has decluttered my kitchen one step further. At last. Goodbye gate.
Aw, the end of an era. Very cool, and just a tiny bit sad. Good thing you have a website so you can show this to them when they’re older.
Just for fun, you should start putting the gate up in random doorways in your house.
HA!! “…realistically, I don’t care if they eat catfood, who hasn’t?” HA!!
And I hate to sound like a broken record, but I LOVE, LOVE that back shot of Tim! You can just tell how cute & incredibly huggable he is!! And nothing against his girlfriend, but boy does she need lots more practice with back shots…maybe you could work on that.
Well, and look at how momma has him dressed – little man! Such a cutie!