A new bed . . .

We are moving up in the world!!! We just purchased our first ever queen sized bed, using some of our tax return. For the past 11 years, we have slept on the same dorm-quality "full" sized bed (which was the cheapest thing we could find- - we were both in school at BYU!). It has slept us for many a night through good times and bad . . . and even made several multi state moves. I even remember Jon practically folding the mattress in half to get it to fit in our moving truck from Des Moines, IA - - we were paying by the foot in the truck. It has lived in 8 different apartments/houses in Provo UT, Spokane WA, Des Moines IA, Sunnyside WA, and now Yakima WA. It has served us well- - the $125 we spent on it went to very good use. I think it is time to give those poor springs a rest- every time we moved they would pop and twinge. I am so excited to finally have a new bed- - and one that is queen sized. I think I am going to even splurge a little (out of our tax return) and buy some new sheets and a bed spread - - no more mismatched bedding!

The next item of business is getting our room cleaned up and better organized, so the bed will fit well in our bedroom. It has become the dumping grounds. You know, every house has a room where things that don't really have a home get shoved when company comes over . . . that, Jon's papers and books, clothing that doesn't fit in the dresser, books I have read over the last year - - clutter, clutter, clutter. When I clean the house- that is the room that gets left behind. My room is not a relaxing place and I plan on chaging things - this new bed gives me the motivation! Besides making a salad for a funeral at the church tomorrow afternoon, and brownies for the youth fundraiser dinner, and motivating the kids to do THEIR chores- my big job for tomorrow is to CLEAN MY ROOM! I want the bed set up by tomorrow night!


*** UPDATE **** (posted Wednesday March 10th)
Well- it happened! The room got cleaned and organized (it felt soooo good to vaccuum the whole room with the bed out!), and the bed was set up. Jon even built the bed frame out of wood he had in the garage late the other night after working until 10pm (it turned out GREAT- it also saved us $70). Since the matresses and bedding were less than I budgeted for, and we didn't have to buy a frame- we splurged and bought a bookshelf style head board. It is amazing to have something so much nicer than before. Not as fancy as other bed rooms, but perfect for us right now in this house.