I'm a starfish

So forgive me for oversimplifying, but in general, there are two types of sleepers: starfish and mummies. I'm a starfish. Gerald is a mummy. This has been a challenge pretty much since the day we got married. Starfish like to sleep, well, resembling starfish, arms and legs stretched out wide, taking up a whole lot of space in a bed, leaving little room for anyone else. Mummies like to sleep all curled up in the fetal position, blankets wrapped tightly around them (serious claustrophobia!). When a starfish marries a mummy, the struggle is real.

I've always thought that a king bed might ease that struggle, and on those occasions that we've been in a hotel with a king, it's been way better. But I've never forked over the cash to get one. Until now.

As many of you know, Seth is going to New York City in April, on tour with his performing choir. Such a trip requires some serious fundraising, and the first and biggest fundraiser happened to be a mattress sale. Could this be the impetus I needed? I could buy a king mattress set, and Seth would earn $125 toward his NYC trip. Done. And while I was at it, why not also buy a full-sized bed for Seth, who was sleeping on a million-year-old twin mattress? This purchase added $75 to Seth's trip; we were now $200 ahead!

Of course the mattresses didn't arrive in time for Thanksgiving when we had a houseful of people staying here, but they did arrive just after, two days ago to be exact. Gerald is working 15-hour days this week, and Seth is either in school, rehearsing, or performing pretty much all his waking hours, so that left Shulamith and me to set up these beds. Could we do it? Well, of course we could. "Who needs men anyway?" she proclaimed, as she unscrewed apart and then screwed back together my queen bed frame, in order to move it into what I'll always call "Isaiah's room," even though Isaiah doesn't technically live here anymore.

I thought the hardest part would be navigating the king mattress, but once we got there, it was actually pretty easy.

Can I just say, the Webster women rock! We set up Seth's new bed in his room, moved the queen bed into Isaiah's room, and set up the new king in the master bedroom. Woo hoo! By the end, we both had backaches, and even our arms were sore. We popped some ibuprofen and decided we should probably start weight training again.

So friends from out of town....come stay with us! We now have a lovely queen bed available in Isaiah's room. But more importantly, the starfish and the mummy will be sleeping well every night.