I May Not Be A Princess, But I Am Getting A New Bed!

I have a confession to make: I have been sleeping on the couch. No, I have not been mad at my husband; it's much more complicated then that (sigh). When we were first married we had a king size waterbed which sprung a leak, twice I might add. So we decided enough with the soggy bed and sought to replace our mattress. At the time, two years ago, I got the bright idea to order a mattress online because all the area stores required us to buy a mattress/box spring set which we did not need. So I did a little research, little being the operative word here, and found a mattress with claims of grandeur and sleepful nights of comfort. This is the part where I start laughing madly.



Yes, you heard me correctly, laughing madly. Why you ask? Well, because what we received was nothing more then a oversize version of a futon. I tried sleeping on this futon replacement mattress, but I kept having shoulder and back pain so intense it drove me to the ... you got it, the couch.

So two years later and a  mere few weeks ago, I made up the couch in the dark and went to sleep. I slept the semi sound sleep of someone on a couch who has no idea that her world is about to change. And change it did my friends as I awoke and found out that I am definitely not a princess. Much to my amusement, as I put my blankets away for the day,  I  found that I had slept on two small
bicycle helmets belonging to my seven year old daughter's Polly Pockets.




For those of you who are familiar with Polly Pockets,
you know they are very small dolls with a myriad of accessories and
rubber clothes. What you might not know, however, is the fact that there
are some pint sized Pollys about half the size of the originals. So you
can well imagine that the bicycle helmets for the pint size versions
are only about the size of a very large pea.



Picking up those two pea sized helmets from my couch bed, I began to laugh. What was going through my mind? Why the story of The Princess and the Pea
of course. You know, that old Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale that
tells of the princess who slept uncomfortably on a huge stack of
mattresses because someone had placed a pea underneath the bottom
mattress. Apparently the fact that she was able to feel the pea was the
tell tale sign that she was true royalty.



Since I
obviously did not feel the peas I was sleeping on, peas that were right
under me and not even under a stack of mattresses, I realized that I am not a princess.
Saddened as I was by that knowledge, I think I will survive. I might even
go to the library and see if I can find a copy of The Princess and the Pea to share with my daughter, who for some unknown reason, was playing where I usually sleep.



But this fairy tale still has a happy ending despite the fact that I am not a princess. This last week my husband and I finally went and bought a new bed. It's one of those new fancy beds with memory foam, memory gel for dispersing body heat, massage, and head and foot sections that raise. About the only thing this bed doesn't do is make itself, but that's okay because after I've slept in it I'm going to be so happy I won't mind making the bed.



So ends another episode of Kids Korner with me, Children's Author Aileen Stewart. Join me next week for another exciting episode same krazy time, same krazy channel. And feel free to drop by my personal blog Aileen's Thoughts any day of the week for even more on reading, writing, and life in general.
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