Aaaah Sweet Slumber

For Christmas this past year, I asked for new sheets. I know. I am wild, adventurous, and too glamorous for words. That's pretty much what Scott said when I told him that was something I was wanting. Actually, he said he couldn't do that...He feared it would come back to haunt him one day in the form of "Remember the Christmas of 2007? My romantic hubby bought me SHEETS!"

I was so elated to see new sheets on Christmas morning, it was sick. Then I got to really looking at the sheets. These were no ordinary sheets. These bore a brand name label, and had an obscene thread count. Since we have a king sized bed that needs deep pocket sheets, I knew that these came with a price tag that I couldn't bear to know.

So I asked.

He told.

And I nearly passed out.

It's not that they were that expensive, but I just have an absolute limit on what we can spend on what I consider boring stuff, like you know, sheets, and he went past it. His defense was that it was a Christmas gift, and you are supposed to give things to people that they wouldn't normally get for themselves.

Suddenly, I was having a flash back to the Christmas previous when I opened a tea pot that broke the same aforementioned rule about boring stuff and price limits. I threatened to return it because there was NO WAY I was keeping a tea pot with that kind of price tag...it would be irresponsible. That's when he said the same exact thing he was saying to me about the sheets.

I thought about how much joy I really did get out of that tea pot. I loved it because it was so nice, and I would've never made a splurge like that on a tea pot. It was nice to have something that I would've never bought myself. Learning from past experience, I decided to keep the sheets too.

Last night was the first time I got to sleep in those sheets. WOW! It was heaven. It was so comfortable, I forgot where I was when I woke up this morning. I am now guarding these sheets like they are some kind of breakable antique porcelain. No kids are allowed on the bed! I didn't know that sheets could be that soft. Also, I had no idea that sheets could fit an over sized pillow top mattress as well as these do. All this time, I have been stuffing our mattress into those other sheets.

What if I can't take them off? What if I keep these sheets on until next Christmas, when I can ask for another set (of course I would be washing them in between...I'm not that sick, people)? Most importantly, what if our pillows aren't good enough anymore for the sheets, and now I need to change them out to make my bed just that much more wonderful?

I think I am on to something here! I think I should ask for pillows for my birthday!