If you are lucky enough to have a husband who occasionally surprises you by making the beds on the weekend, you have to be willing to accept two things.
1.� A deep and unwavering conviction that hospital corners are for hospital beds only.
2.� Toys on the bed shall remain in their original position, even if that means making the bed over them.
If you’re good with that, you’re in business.� If you aren’t, you can always avert your eyes and close the door before you pop a blood vessel.
(And maybe pull out that Hot Wheels car from under the covers when no one is looking.)
Ha! Hilarious! I used to do this as a small child and think no one would notice. Ahhh men.
shh! the hot wheels car is sleeping!
I love that bedspread!
Not that my husband would ever make the bed, but this is a tough call for me. Do you say something (nicely) or just leave it? Is a job done halfway really done? Should someone get brownie point for taking out the garbage if they don’t replace the bag, or leave the trash can in the middle of the floor? If he’ll put a fresh diaper on the baby for me, but leaves the dirty diaper lying on the change table for me to deal with the next time I’m upstairs, do I have to consider it helpful? Or can I say “finish the job properly”?
love the bedspread too! i never made my bed as a teenager, now i try every morning. it really does pull the room together. i admit it. my 7yo is getting better. his is a much bumpier version of your posted pic. usually it’s the balled up pajamas that get left in place under the sheet that is still bunched up as well. yikes!
I’m so glad to now there are others out there who know about hospital corners. I’ve ended up showing so many grown ups how to make a bed, I was starting to think I had grown up in an alternate universe! I love the cover on that bed.
So funny. I totally know what you mean. The “Penelope” in me wants things like this to be perfect, but the loving wife in me knows to just shut my pie hole sometimes.
I think Maggie and I are married to the same man! I will also add, if you see something in the trash can that you think should not be in there(copper measuring spoons!), take it out. Don’t wait a week to tell me about it!
Men will always be “men” in matters of housekeeping.
I also love the bedspread – please tell us where it’s from!
The bedspread is the PS STICKA in natural from IKEA and I recommend everyone buy it because it is awesome. Actually, when I saw it came out in black…I don’t know, a year ago?…I was already planning a master bedroom redesign around it. Then when I saw it in natural with those very sweet threads of color throughout, I knew immediately I would make it Nicholas’s bedspread.
It’s wool, so it’s a bit of a bear to launder. You can’t just toss it in the dyer. BUT! Remember that Nicholas had the stomach flu twenty three thousand times last month? He threw up all over it and everything came out fine in the wash. Because it is wool, you do have to let it dry outside (I hang it on a gate) but I have to say I don’t mind in the least. The first day I brought it back inside I just buried my head in that blanket warm from the sun and marveled that sunshine really and truly has a smell, and it’s wonderful.
I think it is a sign of how respectful he is of his child’s things. My husband does things like this with our poodle Lily’s toys — he’ll make the bed, but lovingly place the chewed up hedgehog toy on top of the coverlet. I asked him about it once and he said, “That’s where she put it. If that’s where she’s keeping it, then who am I to move it?”
Cheers to sweet husbands!
hah, Alan won’t even try to make the bed anymore because he knows I will just remake it. I am one of THOSE kooks. I love the car it makes it very boy:)