Our New Bed

We finally got our bed!!!!! After eight and one half years of marriage we have our first new bed and new mattress. It's soooo nice!!

History of our bed situation.

First married--double size futon

After one year of marriage we brought the mattress (and headboard and frame) from my parents home that I used in high school. Nice, expensive, nearly new mattress....flew out the back of the moving truck my husband was driving {it cleared a semi and i ran over it} on our way to our new apt.

So being the poor college students we were we bought a $300 mattress...

Had that for the next 4 years. I got pregnant, gained 40 or so pounds (but who's counting), my husband would "sink" in the middle of it. I was already bigger than him before pregnancy. So then we traded back and forth on the old faithful futon which we were using as a couch.

Next we moved and ended up using a **used** king size, warped mattress from the family of my sister-in-law's husband. Used that for 3 years. We actually enjoyed the king-sized-ness of it.

Next we moved again...trashed that mattress and went back to the futon again. Slept on that for 9 months...

And things brings us to the NOW! Here we are ... our new bed. Finally. It's espresso finish wood with a headboard and a footboard... and then the mattress that has to be at least 2 feet thick. We have to do a little "hop" to get UP on our bed. It's so cool!!!!