Last night was the last time this bed will ever be slept on. Today our new beds (guest room and our bedroom) are going to be delivered. This morning as Tom was getting ready for work he just wondered what stories this bed could tell if it could talk. 
I started wondering and reflected on the history this bed and where it had been.
June 1977 – Salem, Idaho: My grandparents celebrate there 50th Wedding anniversary. That evening they go to bed (in separate bedrooms). During the night they are both awake at the same time and sit at the kitchen table and talk about what a wonderful celebration it had been and then both go back to bed. The next morning my grandma had passed away very peacefully in this bed.
Four months later, my Grandpa died. Even though my grandparents had bickered and fought, I guess they could not live without one another. Their home was emptied and my mother got my Grandma’s bedroom furniture. Since all my siblings were settled in their homes I was given this furniture to use when I had a home.
Summer 1983 – Rexburg, Idaho: we (Russ, Mary Anne and Emily (4 months old)) move to Rexburg for the summer to work for my father. We lived in one of the college housing apartments that my parents owned. Since there were only single bed in these apartments we used the bed from my Grandmother’s bedroom set.
Fall 1983 – Provo, Utah: We move back to Provo for Russ to start Law School at BYU. We decide to leave the bedroom furniture stored at my parents in Rexburg, Idaho and just use the beds until we are more settled.
Fall 1985 – We move to a small one bedroom home in south Provo. I answer the business phone for a handyman (who owns the house) as payment for our rent. Emily’s bed is set-up at the back of the living room and my grandmother’s bed is set-up in the only bedroom. Jennie is born March of 2006 while living here.
Fall 1986 – Littleton, Colorado: Russ gets a job with a law firm in Denver, Colorado. We rent a home here. While living in this home I went to a garage sale and purchased a full-size bed for $3.00 to have for our guests.
Spring 1987 – Highlands Ranch, Colorado: We purchase a brand new home on Ridgeglen Way. My parents come for a visit and drive the pick-up so they can bring the bedroom furniture with them. My father also builds my living room furniture during that visit.
Summer 1991 – Rockville, Maryland (townhouse): Russ has decided that he wants a divorce but we decide that I should move to Maryland (he is now working for the IRS as a tax attorney) so he can help raise the girls. He takes the $3.00 garage sale bed and I take my Grandmother’s bed.
Summer 1992 – Rockville, Maryalnd (townhouse): The owner of the townhouse that we were living in decides to sell it, so the girls and I move to a townhouse about 1/2 block away.
Summer 1993 – Gaithersburg, Maryland: I purchase a brand new townhouse. The girls and I watch it being built and are excited when we can finally move in. The bed and bedroom set look wonderful in the large master bedroom (with its LARGE bath tub in the master bathroom).
Summer 1998 – Bronx, New York: Tom and I are married on June 20. The week after our wedding we load our (me and girls) belongings into a rental truck and headed up to New York. Since the renters in the house that we were buying would not move out we had to put our belongs into storage. Tom and I lived in the attic of his parents home where there was only a twin size bed. The girls spent most of the summer in Utah, Idaho and Maryland.
August 1998 – Pelham, New York (our bedroom): The renters are about to be evicted so they move out and we are able to move into our home. Because of the limited amount of drawers in my Grandmother’s bedroom furniture we opt to let Emily use it in her bedroom but Tom and I use the full-size bed in our bedroom.
February 2009 – Pelham, New York (small bedroom): We moved the full-size bed into this bedroom to enable us to paint our bedroom more easily. The bed is reunited with the bedroom furniture and headboard.
This bed has served it purpose and is passed its time of usefulness.
wow that bed has been around. What great history.
What a fun history. I’m with Rodney!!
This is a “G” rated blog!!!!!
the carpet looks nice in the guest bedroom!
That’s a very nice history of the bed. I was afraid you were going to tell some of the other stories the bed could tell and I don’t think the world is ready for those stories. I now have images in my head that are very hard to get out. Blogging is so much fun. You can get some of the best comments, uh.