You know what costs a pretty penny these days? Mattresses. Seriously. We just did a bed rotation among the kids and found out. See, the baby isn’t ready for a bed yet, but she will be someday, and the middle kids had a kind of crappy bed. It’s fine for him since he’s light, and it will be fine for the baby because she will surely be even lighter, but my chunky butt really puts a dent in the thing.

So I figured when all the President Day sales were happening we should buy a new bed. We got a full for the oldest boy with the biggest room. We moved his really nice twin to the middle kid, and we stuck the extra mattress and box spring in the attic for when the baby is ready.

The logic behind the full was that we could have a bigger bed for friends who want to stay over. It may not be a hotel king, but for an overnight, any two reasonably sized adults could get a decent nights sleep.

Yup, we’ve substantially increased our ability to host sleepovers without reliance on the air beds. Yeah. We rock.