Good thing Sam doesn't need to be a witness to anything

Have you read the research about how inaccurate eyewitness accounts tend to be? I have firsthand experience showing that we would not want Sam on the witness table.

I was cruel and sold the train table he never ever used.* The thing was huge and took up the better part of his bedroom so it was a relief to get it out of our lives. The trains and track are still used regularly so it was just the table or I'd be able to get another big pile of stuff out of our lives. I put down a rug I'd kept stored under his bed and then dragged the huge kitchen we'd made up to his room.

Sam didn't notice the following:

• The big gaping hole in the living room where the kitchen had been even when he was using that same space to make a massive floor puzzle and later, to build things with Lincoln Logs.
• The lack of a train table.
• That same kitchen set up in his bedroom

I shouldn't be surprised, this is the kid who can't remember if he napped at school that day or if he played outside but somehow, I thought at least something would sink in about the complete rearrangement of some huge items he sees every day.

Now I wonder if Ben would notice if I rearranged the furniture in the living room. Not that things would fit any other way.

*I sold it on Craig's list and this being Vermont, there are the usual odd connections. Sam's best buddy at his school is the son of the husband's boss. Not only that, the company they both work at is one of Ben's customers. And of course, the wife works at one of the agencies we fund at work.