It began with a free vacation.  Tommy and I along with our 3 month old Golden Retriever slept in a king size bed for a week.

We’d not had room to snooze like that since the 1970′s when we enjoyed our room size water bed. For some reason after the leaks we downsized and then again when my Father passed away and we were able to add his antique bedroom set to our home – however it is a standard full size.

The first night on vacation we knew we’d be paying for our trip once we returned home because a bed upgrade was in order.

Long story short we ended up not just buying a king sized bed, but a “mac of a bed”, an all latex top of the line adjustable bed.  Major expense yet one I don’t think we’ll ever regret.  Amazing how wonderful this bed is.

However getting the bed required changing the entire arrangement of the bedroom to make it fit. Which also meant removing the 100+ pound 32 inch fat television that was now mounted on the wrong side of our room. Once it was down we decided its surely the time to replace it with a sleek and much less intrusive flat screen.

Right in the midst of all these exciting changes and expenses our 20 year old washer went out. Tommy is able to repair most anything. But after finding the source of the washing machine leak he declared that  this problem was not going to be worth the cost or effort to fix.  So we ended up buying a new washer/dryer set.

This when the paint on our bedroom walls was still too wet to hang the pictures.

So here we are one month from Christmas and have spent more money on ourselves than we spend for the entirety of the holiday season for a decade!

Do you think the kids/ grandkids might appreciate a gift card that says Mom/Granny will do your laundry  instead of buying Christmas gifts?

Just pondering the idea:)