How do you decide what mattress to buy???

In Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale the Princess and the Pea, a princess is unable to get a good nights sleep because a pea has been placed under her mattress, actually 20 mattresses, piled high! The moral to the story is that the quality of what you sleep on really does determine the quality of sleep you receive. Believe me, I can testify to that. For the past 9 months I have had very few good nights sleep. I read somewhere that when we are asleep our body is compressed by gravity in a different way then when we are standing upright, and we need to be fully supported by the mattress and it's supporting structures. We spend more time in our beds then on any other piece of furniture in our homes. We spend about 24 years of our life in bed. About 9 months ago Les and I decided we needed to purchase a new mattress, our old mattress of 20+ years I'm embarrassed to say was not as comfortable as it use to be. I kept complaining of being tired and ache when I got up in the morning because I tossed and turned all night trying to get comfortable. Les got tired of hearing me complain and one night after work he told me he was taking me over to buy a new inteligel mattress. He had heard it advertised on KSL by Doug Write and he's a pretty reputable guy right? The nice salesman showed us a sample of what the inteligel looked like and how it was suppose to support your body, it looked good, sounded good and for the 5 or 10 minutes we tried the bed out it felt pretty good. Les wanted to get the mattress THAT night but they didn't have any one to deliver the mattress from the wear house until Monday. Les told the salesman he would even go and pick the mattress up him self if he could get it Saturday. Everything was set up and on Saturday Les and our two twin grandsons went and picked it up. Les said the first clue that this mattress might have problems should have been when the guy at the wear house told him we needed to rotate the mattress once a month for the 1st 6 months and then once every 6 months there after. Why would you have to do that???? The first couple of months it was pretty comfortable BUT the gel holds your body heat!!! When you get to that wonderful age where you turn into a flasher that is not a good thing. The next problem is it started to make depressions in the mattress even though we rotated it every month and believe me that is not an easy task! The sucker is one HEAVY hunk of jel. Les and I could hardly rotate the thing and try doing it with a bed skirt on, the bed that is. Are you getting a mental picture here? It is not a pretty sight believe me. We went back to the place we bought the mattress and they said, "if you were having problems you should have brought the bed back within the first 2 months and gotten part of your money back BUT because you waited so long there really wasn't much we can do." How ever they agreed to send someone out to examine the mattress...so tweedle dee and tweedle dum came out to check out the bed and of course you guessed it, they are Spanish. Not that there is anything wrong with that other then the communication problem. You speake Spanish???? Thank goodness one could some what speak English . We were told the indentation was not an inch and a half , (how did they measure that? We didn't see any tools to measure with.) Needless to say we are stuck with this mattress and sleeping in a hot, hole. Les and I had to go last Saturday and spend most of the day looking for a new mattress. Hopefully we didn't pick out a new lemon. It will be here next Thursday and we'll give you an update. The sad moral to our story is that we paid $1000.00 for a mattress that we hate and the companies suggestion is to list the bed on Craig's list or KSL and oh, they told us that the bed we got on sale for $1000.00 is now going for $2000.00. Does that make our miss fortune any better? Stay tune and we'll let you know how the new mattress works out. Wish us luck. And heres to peaceful sleeping:-)

Father's Day

Today was Father's day and I don't think the fathers I know went on a guilt trip when they got to church today like us Mothers do. My father passed away just shortly before fathers day 10 years ago. Wow, I can't believe it has been that long but I sure do miss him. I miss his sense of humor, his wisdom, his kindness, his beautiful tenor voice, his honesty and integrity, his understanding, his commitment and loyalty to our mother, their marriage, and our family. As I listened to the talks about fathers today there was one universal theme, fathers play such a big part in shaping our lives. There were 3 P's in the roll of fatherhood. They are to PROVIDE, to PRESIDE, & to PROTECT. I would like to honor the men in my life this fathers day. My father, my husband and my sons/son in-law. My father was a great provider, he wasn't rich but he made sure we had sufficent for our needs. He worked hard and he taught us to work hard and to always do our best. he was very frugal. His motto was make due with what you have, wear it out or pass it on, and if you don't have the money you don't buy it. I know he was always going with out, sacrificing for us kids. Les my husband is a lot the same way. My dad always presided in our home giving prayers and blessing and always letting us know that our Mom was the most important thing in his life and we needed to always respect her. What a great example my Dad has always been to me. He was our great protector. You better not mess with his kids.

I also pay tribute today to my own husband. Les, like my father makes me want to be a better person because of him. He is my best friend. He is a great husband, dad and papa. I don't know where me and my children would be today with out him. From the look on his face in this picture, doesn't it look like he must have been saying to himself, "What was I thinking?"He looks like one scared guy to take on this family! Can you blame him? :-)
I would also like to pay tribute to my sons and son in-law who are now fathers of their own families. They all are hands on dads. I want to thank them for being such good fathers and let them all know how much I love them and wish them a very Happy Fathers Day!

Did I say it was Spring????

What did I say about the winter that won't die? Mother Nature is playing a crappy trick on us Utahans! She teases us with a nice day here and there and then it's cold and rainy the next day. Les and I came home and turned on the heat. I know that must be hard for our kid that are in Texas where it is HOT HOT HOT! Some times I wonder if Summer is ever going to get here. But one thing about the rain is we get the reward of a beautiful rainbow afterwards. Wouldn't you agree? If you look close you'll see a double rainbow.