Friday, March 6, 2009

The Mattress

We have a queen bed in our guest room, which gets a surprising amount of use. Guests, obviously, sleep there (and we have guests at least 4 times a year), and Joel sleeps there when he is on call so his pager (and subsequent phone conversations) don't wake me up in the middle of the night. I spent an entire three months sleeping there, when Rebecca was a baby and was waking up to nurse at night so I could be close to her room (we have a first floor master bedroom for those of you who might not know).

This mattress has been the subject of much controversy. It is a very soft mattress, and sleeping on it is akin to sleeping on a giant marshmallow. Some of our guests have enjoyed this, and some have proclaimed that I am trying to permenantly disable them by making them sleep on a giant marshmallow.

For those of you who liked the mattress, I have bad news for you: The mattress has been replaced by a very firm mattress, akin to sleeping on a slab of concrete. And for those of you for whom sleeping on a giant marshmallow was torture, I have good news for you! You will now be sleeping on a concrete-like slab of a mattress when you come visit me.

I do not want to hear any more complaining from either side! Can't we all just get along?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

YAY! No more marshmallows!!!!!

Abigail said...

*grumble grumble* I thoroughly enjoyed sleeping on a marhsmallow... :(

Mary said...

Oh come on, would it be so hard to store the marshmallow mattress in the closet and switch the mattress upon request???? Why kind of hostess are you!!?? :) just kidding! I wish my parents would just replace the 20 year old mattress in their guest bedroom. I'm not even sure that thing qualifies as a mattress anymore!