The Cocoon Tuck

I don't think I have properly made a bed since I got married. I think the one time that I tried the top sheet ended up pushed all the way to the bottom of the bed which means on the floor because we didn't have a foot board until a few years ago. Tim is a "tucker." You know the kind. When you get into bed at night half if not three quarters of the blankets are cocooned around him. It almost looks like he has turned the flat blankets into a mummy sleeping bag.

The Cocoon Tuck has been going on for many years. Tim wasn't a fan of the top sheet ever. If you look at our sheets the top sheet is twice as bright as the fitted sheets because we never wash the top sheet because it is never used.

Recently we bought new sheets. They are pretty sheets, Martha Stewart and they are stripped with yellow, white, some green, and a little bit of brown. Very pretty. I got all the pillow cases to match and I even got extra in a coordinating color to add some interest (I secretly want to design stuff). Last night before going to bed, Tim asked if I was going to change the sheets. I said if you want you just need to go and get them. Tim brings the basket upstairs and starts putting on the fitted sheet. He looked in the basket and said we had another sheet. I told him that was the top sheet, he said that he knew and started to put the sheet on the bed. At this point I'm totally amazed. Once the sheet was on I started to tuck the sheet in, like you do with sheets. The whole process of how to make a bed was coming back to me.
Tim-what are you doing
me-tucking the sheet in
Tim-oh yeah...
me-this is how you are suppose to sleep in a bed. Are you going to tuck in the sides as well
Tim-Tuck in the sides? I guess
me-Are you going to be okay with sleeping with a sheet on the bed
Tim-We'll see how this goes.
So last night was one of the first nights that Tim and I have slept together without so much as a remote Cocoon Tuck. We have been married 6 1/2 years. Small victories people...small victories....