Go to Bed with the Chickens

Gabe loves the new bed.

He fell asleep within seconds of testing it out.

Gabe likes to joke with me about my early bedtime (it's lights out by 9pm), but he has a surprise coming his way when he realizes our new bed just moved my bedtime up by at least an hour. Pretty soon I'll be going to bed with the chickens (at sundown). The new bed arrived over the weekend and it was worth the wait. Gabe's back and hips are already feeling better (or so we'd like to believe). We're feeling comfortable and well-rested. The only drawback is that it's even harder to get out of it when our alarms go off in the morning.

Mattress Shopping

Gabe and I tackled the much dreaded mattress shopping experience yesterday. We spent about two hours lying on almost every bed in the store. The activity both reaffirmed our suspicions that our current bed is terribly uncomfortable and also made us very sleepy (we can both fall asleep anywhere). I wondered what the salesman would do if he came back to check on us and found us asleep on one of his floor models. After all our hard work, we finally found a mattress that suited us and were chomping at the bit to get it home and sleep on it. However, the delivery date is a week away! Gabe could not get over this and talked about how disappointed he was for the rest of the day (poor Gabe doesn't get much sleep). At least we know it's on its way and we can cross that off the list (I love lists).