Comments on: The Sacrament of Making Your Bed http://pathstoknowledge.com/896/the-sacrament-of-making-your-bed/ Your map to happiness and personal growth Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:27:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Deb http://pathstoknowledge.com/896/the-sacrament-of-making-your-bed/comment-page-1/#comment-109 Deb Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:02:12 +0000 http://pathstoknowledge.com/?p=896#comment-109 Alas, my children are now both too large to throw into a duvet cover and refuse to allow them back out until they've smoothed out every lump and bump in the duvet!,,, Although, I'm to be a grandma soon!... now there's a thought! Alas, my children are now both too large to throw into a duvet cover and refuse to allow them back out until they’ve smoothed out every lump and bump in the duvet!,,, Although, I’m to be a grandma soon!… now there’s a thought!

]]> By: admin http://pathstoknowledge.com/896/the-sacrament-of-making-your-bed/comment-page-1/#comment-108 admin Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:26:02 +0000 http://pathstoknowledge.com/?p=896#comment-108 No laptops?? Uh oh... How about if I cross the small step up into the "sitting" area. Then I'm not technically IN the bedroom. I'm not a terribly proficient bed-maker myself. It takes me twice as long as it should to get it looking decently. My wife always insists I recruit one of the children to help me move it along a bit. No laptops?? Uh oh… How about if I cross the small step up into the “sitting” area. Then I’m not technically IN the bedroom.

I’m not a terribly proficient bed-maker myself. It takes me twice as long as it should to get it looking decently. My wife always insists I recruit one of the children to help me move it along a bit.

]]> By: Deb http://pathstoknowledge.com/896/the-sacrament-of-making-your-bed/comment-page-1/#comment-107 Deb Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:54:29 +0000 http://pathstoknowledge.com/?p=896#comment-107 I see Regina's point - making the bed is a kind of ritual that signals end of night, time to get going on the day. And at the other end, unfolding a made bed signals end of day, time to rest. Still, I can stand having an unmade bed occasionally - now - but only because I trained myself to chill-out over it! Pete, my husband is a rubbish bed-maker. He tries but everything ends up skewiff despite his best efforts, so on times when he was stealing a few minutes' extra after I'd got up of a work morning, I'd hang around hyperventilating until he got up so I could make it the second he went to the bathroom....and then if he'd come back and plonk himself on the made bed to put his socks on, I'd drive him nuts with my tutting and tsking. Not the best start to the day :-) .... still, some things are definite no-no's in the bedroom.... laptop and mobile phones spring to mind - no way!... those things definitely come under the heading of ' dragging the activities, emotions, and energy of one day into the next'. I see Regina’s point – making the bed is a kind of ritual that signals end of night, time to get going on the day. And at the other end, unfolding a made bed signals end of day, time to rest. Still, I can stand having an unmade bed occasionally – now – but only because I trained myself to chill-out over it! Pete, my husband is a rubbish bed-maker. He tries but everything ends up skewiff despite his best efforts, so on times when he was stealing a few minutes’ extra after I’d got up of a work morning, I’d hang around hyperventilating until he got up so I could make it the second he went to the bathroom….and then if he’d come back and plonk himself on the made bed to put his socks on, I’d drive him nuts with my tutting and tsking. Not the best start to the day :-)

…. still, some things are definite no-no’s in the bedroom…. laptop and mobile phones spring to mind – no way!… those things definitely come under the heading of ‘ dragging the activities, emotions, and energy of one day into the next’.

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