Sheets

I love sheets! Yes, sheets....the kind you sleep in! I love pretty sheets with tatting or embroidery done by my ancestors! I love nice, crisp white sheets to make me feel nice and cool in the summer! I love soft, fuzzy, warm flannel sheets in fun colors to snuggle under in the winter! My favorite sheets of all are the ones that come right out of the dryer, toasty warm, begging to be snuggled with in the middle of an unmade bed. I love burying myself under the pile, enveloped with warmth and freshness, pure heaven!

However, when the warmth wears off, then the sheet-freak comes out! The sheet-freak is this person who has to have her bed made perfectly. All layers pulled taut, each layer ending a little bit shorter than the layer under it. The layers must be pulled tight every night before they can be crawled under. There was a time in my life (about 20 years worth) when my bed had to be made EVERY day! However, right before my wedding this picture appeared.....a picture of my bedroom in Grand Island....a bedroom in total disarray....and a bed unmade! I think Diane took that picture because she was proud of me! She used to laugh at me every night when she would point out that my bed was perfectly smooth with the exception of my body lying under it.

Some things have changed since then....I still love fresh clean sheets! I still love to snuggle with them right out of the dryer! I still love different sheets for different seasons! I still pull the sheets tight every night before I crawl under them! BUT.....I never make my bed....at least not in the morning before going to work! Just at night before I get back in it!

Confession: I knew that Jarod was going to be gone for two nights, so I waited until today to wash the sheets so I could selfishly enjoy their cleanness all to myself!