When do you belive them?

Ruth wanted to bring home a couch from the church. Seems the church has had enough of kids on couches, the ad read, small, teal, leather, couch in good shape. What came home today was a Large blue/green pleather couch in bad condition. She has it in her room and is loving it! So much fun came from it today but they will have to have it hauled off at some later date when she gets some taste. Lyz had something like this with a banana stuffed she saw at a neighbors garage sale. It was as large as she was at 5 and she had 4 whole weeks of allowance and she spent it on that. The kids had more fun with that than almost anything else we ever gave them except maybe the swing set/slide and Sahara in a box. They drug each other around on that banana mostly just before bedtime. They sat on it when we read, they fought over it and mostly Lyz laid on it and read.  So the couch stays b/c it is not in my way. It brings her joy and it will be a source of most fun made of it! I keep thinking they are adults now and can be trusted but really I think it take awhile.