Bed Situation/Dilemma

Because the situations in our house tend to change and there isn't much extra space, we sometimes have to shuffle rooms. I don't do it for fun, trust me. It's only done when it's completely necessary. Anyway, a month ago, we decided that the two youngest girls needed to be back upstairs. The dilemma would be the bed situation.

The solution was that Anthony would move downstairs. He and Brittney would each have their own room. Brittney has wanted our bed for a long time so we decided she could have it. It's a hand-crafted four-poster oak bed with a pillow top mattress. Our friend made the bed frame and my parents bought us the mattress and box spring when we moved into our house over 10 years ago. But the frame stands really high and the mattress is getting old. We've been talking about getting something else for quite a while now.

But in order for the whole plan to come together, I needed to convince Brittney to give her old bed to Taylor and Sophia. Instead of just asking, I called her and said that I was going to be getting a new bed and was giving our old one to either her or Taylor but I wanted to ask her first. Of course she didn't want her sister to have it, so she said she wanted it. Ha! Then I asked if we gave her ours, could we give her old bed to the girls. She said sure. Ha! Ha! So we moved Brit's old bed upstairs into the younger girls room. It works really well because it has drawers underneath for storage and both of them actually prefer not to sleep alone.

 

Still nothing on the walls since we moved them in but they've had plenty on the floor. It's a good thing they don't have a lot of floor space. Here's a bonus shot of the messy top of their dresser. Notice the writing on the mirror. Taylor used to write on anything and everything so I finally broke down and got her some dry erase markers to write on her mirror so it would wash off. Works for both of us.

 It worked really well for Brittney to take it because when she goes to college in three years, her room will repainted and become the guest room. Before I left for Rapid City a few weeks ago, I had already moved Anthony and Sophia and Taylor and their respective beds. I put the twin mattress on Brittney's floor for her until we had time to complete the switch. Then I ended up staying in Rapid City much longer than I originally anticipated. Steve got really ambitious and took our bed apart and rebuilt it in Brittney's room for her. Wonderful!

 

So now we have the kids all situated but there is no bed in my room. Steve and I originally talked about just using the twin mattress we already had leftover from the room switch and then getting another twin mattress from my folks. We could just put them together until we could save for a new bed.

 

But apparently my vision of what we would do in the meantime was a bit different from his. When I finally made it home, this is the bed situation I found in my room.

One single twin bed!

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I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. I'd been away from home for so long and was looking forward to crawling into bed. Fortunately, my parents brought in another twin mattress but they didn't have a box spring. So I did what any good wife would do. I threw a mattress on the floor, kicked Steve to that one and took the good spot ;)

 

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After two weeks of our weird sleeping situation and a few nights of cold toes when my dog left me, I decided enough was enough. Last night I pulled out the frame and box spring and threw my mattress on the floor by Steve's. We now have two twin mattresses on the floor. I'm hoping after we make it through the Christmas season, we can start looking for something that works a little better. On a positive note, there's not much danger of anyone getting hurt falling out of bed! :)

 

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