"Best night sleep of your life?" Not hardly!

Last weekend Matthew decided he had enough with our old mattress and that it was time to replace it. This has been an ongoing discussion at our house with me always convincing him that now is not the time. Well, we both have been having a tough time sleeping over the past couple of months and upon inspecting the manufactures tag on our old mattress we found that the poor thing was about 11 years old! Yikes. I finally gave in (not that I had a choice anymore) and the search began.

One of the things that I truly love about my husband is that he is a researchin' fool! He doesn't go out and make a blind purchase - well, at least not on BIG purchases. Nope. He will read reviews, watch videos, get other family members or friends opinions and then he'll make his decision to purchase or not! So in researching something like "what type of mattress will give me the best sleep of my life?" of course temper-petic comes up. I mean, isn't that their slogan pretty much? He researched each type of bed and read each review and watched each video of people demonstrating their levels of comfort or concern. Finally, he picked "the bed" and off to the mattress store we went!

After trying out a few beds, we did end up going with the one he originally picked based on reviews. Before we left, our salesperson said "just make sure to let the kids kind of bounce around on it as it can be kind of firm when it comes out of the warehouse." Understatement of the year. This brings me to today. I feel as if I've been sleeping on our kitchen table all night and I have a nice aroma that is now stuck in my hair. Matthew and I both laugh over why they give you that "100 day money back guarantee" because it probably takes that long to break the sucker in! And the smell?! It's terrible. I would think that with enough people complaining about the smell and firmness of the brand new mattress (no, we're not the first to complain) that they would develop some method of letting it air out and then having a machine to stomp on it a few hundred times, achieving the customers desired softness.

We both know that it's going to take a couple of weeks to "break it in" and then we will finally have the "best sleep of our life." In the meantime we are freely allowing our kids to jump on the bed and putting the "no more monkey's jumpin on the bed" on the back burner. Hey, whatever it takes right?