Now that I think about it, it's not so much making the bed, it's changing the sheets that drives me crazy! And it's not so much when someone is helping me, it is when I have to do this alone.
Today I was changing the sheets in my daughter's room in anticipation of my cousin visiting. I am very excited to welcome her to my home and to sit and visit. I really cannot remember the last time I've seen her! But that dang bed!
I go in and first thing I have to do is clean all the blankets and stuffed animals off the bed. Then the quilt and shams are moved to the chair and the old sheets come off. But as I am doing this alone, I have to go back and forth several times. I realize that I am not as efficient at this as I should be. Maybe I should devise a better plan - like getting maid service to do this!
Now is the time to put on the clean sheets. I go to each corner to get the fitted sheet on. More walking around the bed... The flat sheet should be easier. I see this on TV and movies all the time so I take the sheet by one side and shake it in the air and across the bed. I am expecting it to waft slowly in the air and land gently across the bed, right? Wrong! The sheet catches on the end of the footboard and folds in on itself. So, once again, I am traveling around the bed, smoothing it out then checking the length on each side, then trying to even out the sheet and, once more, checking the length on each side and so on and so forth until it looks even. All the while I am wondering if the Israelites felt this way wandering in the desert.....
Yay!! Pillows! The easy part, at least that's what I thought.... Seems that the material on the outside of the pillow doesn't slide easily with the material of the pillowcase. I have to reach my hand into the case, grab the end of the pillow, and pull it down to the end of the pillowcase! Finally, I get both pillows in their cases. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!
Final step - let's get the quilt and the shams on and make all look pretty. This is not too bad although I do make a few trips around the bed getting the quilt to look even on both sides. A half an hour later, I finish making the bed. This goes so much faster when my husband is helping! Not only that, we get to talk and laugh which makes the task much more pleasant!
Lessons from making the bed? Definitely! Lessons, at the very least, on the value of having a friend, on persevering to reach a goal, determination to finish that goal, and the value of patience. I'm sure there might be more, but I offer you the following quotes to consider. And have a great day!
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Ecclesiastes 4:9
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.
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Friendship
improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling
of our joy and the dividing of our grief. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Romans 5:3-4
More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
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