the bed

When I was pregnant with Jacob we needed to make some space in the house for our baby to be. My husband and I gave up our bedroom for Emily and Jacob to share. It was the biggest bedroom at the time and we thought that best. That left us with the tiny 8x9 middle bedroom. we could not fit a full size bed in this room unless we never wanted to close the door. And forget about fitting any furniture in there with it. It became an office/closet for us. Or mainly our stuff. We bought new living room furniture, the main piece being a queen size sofa bed. We also had to get a special mattress as anyone who's ever slept on a sofa bed knows the mattress is very slim and not comfortable at all. We went to jennifer convertibles and purchased a mattress the saleman told us was used by a lot of city people with small apartments and no bedrooms either. It was the basic sofa bed mattress but on top was an air mattress. Neither of us had ever even slept on an air mattress before but we didn't really have a choice now. I complained and bitched about the bed like crazy. For three years I didn't have to make my bed in the morning I had to deflate it so I could have a living room. each morning and night i had to get our pillows and blankets from the top bunk of our sons bunk beds. the easiest and pretty much only place for us to store them. Plus I slept on this thing while pregnant and then recovering from a c-section. Lets just say lots of pillows and hardly any room for my husband. It was quite interesting. I'm sure Emily will never forget how she got to roll on mommy and daddys bed in the mornings to let the air out and then help put the couch back together. I believe we had to replace the air mattress piece three times in three years. Maybe four. Not bad for every night use which of course no one tells you to do with the camping air mattress' we got as the replacements. There was even a period of time when the frame of the fold out bed itself broke. Thank God it was still under warranty. We had to wait a week or two for the replacement frame to come in and then be installed. During that time each night we got to take the air mattress out of the couch and blow it up on the floor of the living room and sleep there. After awhile I hung a curtain in the doorway as a door in an attempt at a little bit of privacy. Of course our bedroom/living room opened up into the kitchen and there wasn't a wall there. At least we seperated us at the front of the house from the bedrooms in the back. The sheet also kept the air conditioning in our room pretty well too.
I finally have a bedroom again. It is gorgeous. We got a beautiful wrought iron black canopy bed. Burgandy bedding and canopy shears. I love it and as one of my girlfriends said I have a sexy bedroom. After three years without one that was quite nice to hear. If only I felt like I was getting some sleep it might actually be great. Since we've been in our new beautiful bedroom I sleep but wake up feeling exhausted. I wish I knew why. Maybe it's the mattress we got, maybe it's the stress thinking about paying for it. I really don't care I'd just like a good nights sleep in my real bed. And these damn circles under my eyes just keep getting darker and darker. If this goes on much longer I may have to try sleeping in the living room again just to get a decent nights sleep on the pull out. How sick would that be?