Make Your Bed

Hmmm… what was your first thought when you seen this title? Did you go straight to the Karma thing, did you think about your actual bed, or did you NOT know what the heck this could have possibly been talking about?

Well guess what?? I could go all three ways, but today, we will talk about the actual making of your bedroom bed! Do you? Do you turn around as soon as you get out of bed and make it before anything else? Do you go to the restroom then head straight back to bed to make it before you stay up for the day? Do you leave it alone for that ‘just in case’ I want to lay back down, or do you have no second thought about your bed and go about your day and never make it, unless it’s time to wash your sheets and that may consist of the making of your bed? No matter what your schedule or way is on your bed, isn’t judged at all.. after all it’s YOUR bed… do as you wish with it. (But for now, just think outside the box for a second.. and keep reading.. yes, I write deep shit. So endure me now, or click out.. I am here to encourage you only.)

Or should you actually make it before you do anything else that day? Let me tell you where I am going for your encouraging word for this day.. no judgement, just truth on my thoughts of that encouraging time in your life.

Now more than ever, we are at home. Normally, once we leave our beds, it’s balls to the walls on getting ready for work or school or both, that the last thought of that bed was when we lifted our heads off that pillow for the day… however, in today’s world, if you’re like me, we walk through our rooms about 20 times a day… Putting laundry away, using our bathrooms, grabbing something up, brushing our hair 6 hours after we have been awake, putting makeup on just to look like a woman for a few hours of our day.. ( if youre a woman ) anything… well if you don’t care and your vision of your peace room doesn’t bother you and you have no thought of it, either you should, or you are like me.. (that one room in our home that usually gets neglected, yet is still your peace and love room).. bothers you if it doesn’t bring peace to you as soon as you walk into each time you do.

Now to each there own on this next part, and I am certainly no expert, but I do know peace and serenty when it comes to my husband and my room. It is set apart from the entire house… period.. in more ways than one. We don’t have a TV in that room, we do not have pictures of our kids or grandkids in that room, we may have a couple pictures of us and that’s it. No distractions of the outide world is allowed in ‘our space’. Period. No kids can enter our room without permission, nobody can use or bed or our bathroom without permission, and nobody can go into my dresser or vanity without permission.. I would dare think they would even try.. I just dare.

That room could literally be physically separated from the rest of our home and it wouldn’t nor shouldn’t feel any different. It is sereal, special, in it’s own time and well spent. Now… saying that, don’t go off thinking sex sex sex… cause that’s not what I am talking about.. that room will not hold outside discussions, problems or ideas.. ( sometimes it does, but we try to shut it down asap ).. because again, that’s a whole other world we get to go to finally, every night.

Now let me get to my point of the Title discussion of tonight’s blog before I lose you to boredom or judgement, because neither one is my intent. Just hang in there readers.. hang on!

Now I know some of us aren’t or maybe so in some areas but not others, OCD. I am very much OCD… BUT only in some areas for sure. I have to have a clean kitchen, laundry room, living room, bedroom and sometimes bathrooms, depending on my mood on that one… BUT I suck at having a clean car, closet or craft room! I have the desire and the anxiety of those places not being perfect, but I don’t rush to them as I do the other places. Like right now, all I want to do is clean those places now that I have mentioned them, but as bad as that bothers me, if it was any of the other places, I wouldn’t continue to write this now. It’s crazy. It’s odd to me actually. However, this is why I believe, those three places doesn’t bother me as much as the others do. They don’t bother me as much because those three places are mine and mine alone. All the other places I listed, my family lives in also.. so I know for a fact, that is why I am so OCD about them. Now on the other hand, I know to be true, I cannot get to the other places I let go for a while because I am so wrapped up cleaning the main spaces up. Usually cleaning up after my family, but time consuming still… When I clean my car, my closet and my craft room.. it becomes an event.. an all day event at that… so if I have that much time to spend trying to clean those up, the rest of the house gets neglected for the day and then my OCD kicks my butt. I am either yucky feeling or up all night cleaning them. Ugh… hate the struggle for sure. And I mean that.. HATE IT!

Make your bed. When I worked outside my home and had to leave at 7:00-7:30 each day, the last thing I thought about was making my bed. Even though my husband had been out of it since 5:00 that morning and woke me up at 5:30 so I would have plenty of time to get ready for work… and… make my bed. Well, that life schedule ended 8 months ago. I did have 4 months of that 8 months of leaving the house for a part time job, but I didn’t have to leave the house until 9:40 at the latest. ( miss that schedule for sure) Still.. didn’t stop to make my bed.

Back when I was a child, my mother taught and told me and my sister to make our beds as soon as our ‘feet hit the floor’. We had to make our beds before school.. period. We did too. I didn’t think much of it then because we did what we were told without question.. something I wish kids did today.. but that’s another blog for sure..

Now I know why! Making your bed is the first ‘completion’ of something accomplished in your day before your day technically begins. It’s actually a magical power you don’t even know you just did.. and the funny thing about it… It doesn’t take but about 60 seconds! Depending on how many pillows you have to replace and how restless you slept.. it takes NO TIME to feel that power. I don’t have the ‘word’ I need to explain it, but if you do this each day, you already know what I am trying to say! Not only does it give you that power over your morning… if you are home during the day.. everytime you walk into your room for whatever, you ‘see’ that pretty made bed.. and it is at least 70% of your ‘cleaned’ room. That all by itself is like cream icing on the already moist cake… undescribeable.

I am not sure if you have to have some form of OCD to understand what I am saying or trying to share on the feeling of completion just making a dang bed, or if you just don’t give a damn and you do make your bed and walk into your room over 50 times a day and never ‘see’ your made bed… more power to you.. it’s ok! But for weirdos like me… not only do I make my bed with layers of pillows on it… I leave my little ‘romantic’ lamps on so I can see it all everytime I go in there… ALL DAY LONG! Call me crazy, but outside that bedroom on some days… is scary and overwhelming.. so when I have to pee… and go through my bedroom to get to my bathroom… I want to stop and just take a deep breath and absorb it all… ( then go pee )

Point is… when your bed isn’t made.. and you have the whole house you are working on, or you are working on whatever or coming home from your job.. and you walk into your room.. with an unmade bed gives no satisfaction at all… you have all day sheets not protected… you have disaway.. you have no contentment… ( my feelings only) Now saying all this.. I will say this… not against men at all… BUT most men will never understand any of this.. and some women think I think too deep… its all OK!!!! These are my thoughts shared to you.. because no, not all agree… but oh the ones who do.

I went two days without making my bed this week… and today I washed everything.. and got back to the basics of the fact that A. I wasn’t feeling well before.. but mainly B… I was allowing everyones actions control how I felt. So whats the use right??? NO! No matter how you feel.. turn around and make that bed… it doesn’t have to be perfect.. Just do it and watch why.

There is no explaination. There is only real. If you can’t walk into your bedroom and feel instant peace.. and your bed isn’t made… as little of a BS task that would make a world of difference.. Make your bed before you start your day. and just see what I am trying to share with you. Not only does that ‘first’ accomplishment please you… it will allow you to want to accomplish more in your day… if it’s to go to your job, or stay at home all day.. that feeling will boost you into other great and mighty things…

All because you.. Made Your Bed.