I Like A Firm Bed

My 4ft 3in daughter has been sleeping on the floor for the past two weeks.  Before this, she slept on the hardest 100% cotton futon I have ever been on.  For years I have tried to buy her a new mattress, but she won’t let me.  I gotta tell ya, I think the floor is actually softer than the futon.  The floor does have cushy carpet and padding, after all.

Today I started down the same road again about buying her a new mattress.  She told me she would never sleep in her bed again, not because it was too firm but  because it was too small. 

Excuse me?

"Yah, my legs almost go off the end,"  she said.

I found it interesting that she would be concerned about the length of the bed instead of the width.  For me, sleeping in a twin usually results in bruises by morning because I’m always flinging myself into the wall during the night.

She catapulted onto the bed and told me to look at how close her feet were to the end.  She held her hands about 2 feet apart just in case I couldn’t figure it out.  Yep, she nailed it.  2ft is how much room is left when a 51” person lays on a twin bed or even a double bed for that matter.  There’s hardly any room.  I feel for her, I really do.

She then flopped onto the floor and showed me how much room she had and that she would never run out.  Never!!!  What kills me is that this kid doesn’t move when she goes to sleep.  She’s not a scruncher.  You’ll never find her at the end of her bed.  She’s one of those sleepers that if you didn’t actually know she was in the bed you would think someone had recently made it.  The sheets are smooth with a little bump where her body is.  My bed looks like a tornado went through it in the morning.

My other daughter, however, loves to have her feet hang off the end of the mattress in between it and her footboard.  I, of course, know that you should NEVER hang any body part over the side of the bed.  Ummmm, hellooo, something will grab you!  Duh!  Seriously, what person in their right mind would do that?  Sometimes when I get up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night I like to confuse the guy hiding under the bed.  At the 2am trip I might go off the side where I’m actually sleeping and then at the 3:30am jaunt I’ll roll to the other side of the bed and make my way into the bathroom.  Just to mix it up I’ll even crawl straight off the end.  Occasionally, on the way back into bed I will do a handstand at the end and fall into bed.  Thomas really loves it when I run from the bathroom, jump, do a twist in the air and land in the perfect spot then throw up my hands signaling a 10.  I get bored…even during the night.

Anyway, for now, I guess she’ll sleep on the floor.