Sadie is Funny

I have a loveseat I was given by a friend of the family who was moving out of the state a few years back.  Um… more than a few, I guess.  It’s weird, because to me everything after 1999 encompasses perhaps three years, but I’ve been blogging over four, and I had that before I started blogging.  Anyway, apart from being aged now, it was essentially brand new, barely used, expensively ordered with a custom covering, and came with a nice, name brand mattress inside.  Narrow, but it’s a sleeper.

Since I had room there, I stored it by way of using it at the office.  It went where we’d have put a reception desk, had we ever grown into one.  It was great if I needed to nap, and for the kids to nap at times when they were there.

The confluence of having room for it here, needing to clean out the office, and it being ideal for Deb’s mother to sleep on meant I picked up a strapping nephew and went to get it today.  We also brought a computer desk.  My friend Nicole had a nice one she didn’t take when she moved to San Diego (followed by Las Vegas, then near Portland).  I stored it for her by way of putting it to use at the office.  Again, it would need to be cleared out of the office, was not being used there any longer, and can be put to work here.

Sadie has had a series of sleep issues.  She went readily to a toddler bed.  After a while, she became scared of it, possibly to do with bad dreams, possibly to do with falling out, getting caught, or perhaps bumping herself on the bars that extended partway down the sides.  After a nomadic period, she started sleeping on my queen size air mattress, which is incredibly comfortable and a fine choice.  Then something triggered her again, and after a shorter nomadic period she started sleeping in a specific spot on the floor of their room, adjacent to the air mattress, using the M&M pillow we’d brought home from the office, where I’d kept it on the loveseat.

We put the loveseat in their bedroom, displacing the air mattress with Sadie’s eager permission.  When I explained what we wanted to do and asked was it okay, she started pulling things out of the way as fast as she could.

Ah, but instead of the result being Deb’s mother sleeping on it, sharing their room, while Sadie sleeps on the floor or on a repositioned air mattress, the loveseat bed became Sadie’s new bed, leaving poor grandma on the very air mattress we thought might not be adequate for her.  Oops.  Sadie is so funny.  We should have been able to predict, or at least suspect, that this would happen, but I never thought of it until we moved the loveseat in there.

The question then is how long sleeping there will last.  Guess we’ll find out…

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