New Mattress

A few weeks ago I seriously considered getting a new mattress.  A few months ago Ben and I went mattress shopping but really couldn't afford a mattress payment.  Today our mattress came in the mail from Walmart.com.  We needed a new mattress badly and we went online and found one we could afford since we've come across a little bit of extra money recently...

Ben called me and told me that the mattress came while I was at work.  He said that he would wait until I got home so we could open it together.  When I got home, we opened the box and read the instructions and it said that it had to breathe for 24 hours.  Ben had to work that evening at the fire station so I guess that meant I get to sleep on the couch!  I was not about to go sleep on our old mattress because it made my lower back suffer tremendously. He helped me wrestle the old mattress into the garage so it could be taken to the dump at some point. We then took it out of the extra room and flopped the new mattress onto the frame.  There it rested for 24 hours.

The couch was more comfortable than the old mattress and the Frankenstein mattress pads we clothes pinned together to make a super mattress pad.

The next day while Ben was on shift, I washed all of our bedding so when it was time to put the mattress on the frame it has fresh bedding on top of it.  I washed everything.

When all of it was finally done, I spent some time making the bed (kitty helped) and then I laid in it.  It felt so nice.

That night we both slept in it for the first time and the next morning we were sore because our body had to adjust to something different.  It should get better as we continue sleeping on it.  Maybe someday we could get a better one but for now this one should work.

Next Adventure:  Fort Steilacoom and Chambers Bay