Well, my wonderful life posted a funny entry yesterday about the “fight” over the sheet and blanket on our king size bed.
She assures me that it was more in jest than anything else and she’s not upset about me “stealing her blankets” at night. But I’ve enjoyed giving her a hard time about it either way.
I thought I’d add to the story and point out a couple other things I’ve noticed at night (because I honestly have not noticed this struggle for the sheets and blankets that she refers to ;-)).
We’ve both had our own bed for so long. She’s 5’2″ and had her own full size bed all to herself and I’m 6’5″ and have had my own king size bed to myself. Now, not only do we share a house and bedroom together, we share a bed!
I think because of us not being used to sharing a bed, we’ve gotten into an odd pattern of sleeping.
We both have a tendency to wake up anytime the other person wakes up, the only downside is I roll back over and go right back to sleep. She takes a good while longer to fall back asleep.
I remember several nights with this pattern. Fall asleep. Wake up a couple hours later to a pat on my arm, poke in the ribs, push on my shoulder, “Roll over!”
“What?”
“Roll over your snoring!”
“Sorry.”
I roll over and fall back asleep. Several hours later the event reoccurs.
Unfortunately for her, she doesn’t fall back asleep as quickly and getting up at 4:45 a.m. doesn’t help matters.
I’ve also noticed that when I wake up at other times in the middle of the night I have a tendency to accidentally “kick” her with my foot or hit her with a knee or hand or something when I roll over.
It’s in no way intentional. She may not even notice it. But I do and I feel horrible.
It’s not with great gusto – but for some reason my 6’5″ frame has trouble staying on my side of the bed when I roll over and she’s normally right in the middle of the bed when I do.
So for any added “mystery” bruises you might have Laurie – I think I’ve found the problem and I apologize in advance for anymore.
So the moral of the story is… well I don’t know.
How about this, “Don’t sleep on your back if you tend to snore and keep your hands, feet and legs to yourself once the decision to go to sleep has been made.”
I hate that picture! And that might explain the bruise I have on the side of my leg…..I do feel you kick me sometimes. But you do that even when we aren’t asleep or even in bed, like in the kitchen and you turn around and elbow me in the shoulder.