My Learning Story

I remember when I first learned how to make my bed. I was twelve years old and I am embarrassed to say that I had never made up a bed completely until that age. My mom told me that it was high time that I learned how to make a bed and since then, she leaves the folded sheets on my bed and I do it myself, quite well I might add. My mom had just washed my light pink sheets and she asked me to help her put them back on my bed. We went upstairs and I had no idea what to do. We unfolded the first sheet and I remember being amazed because I did not even know that a scrunchy sheet like that existed! My mom told me to put my corner of the sheet onto the mattress first and then she put hers on. Then we went to the foot of the bed and I had some trouble getting the sheet to fit. My mom instructed me to pick the mattress up and rest it on my knee with my foot on the bed so that I to tuck the scrunchy sheet under the corner fully. After she did the same procedure with her corner, we unfolded the straight sheet. We laid the sheet across the head of the bed first so that we knew it was straight and right where we wanted it and then we pulled it tight at the foot of the bed. The tricky part came next; we had to pick up the mattress on our knees again. My mom showed me her trick, buy copying was harder than she made it look. She folded the end of the sheet under first. Then she brought the extra sheet to the side of the bed and tucked in the remaining sheet under. Then when she dropped it, the sheet fell perfectly even with the foot of the bed. Then we tucked the excess sheet under the sides of the bed. After we successfully stuffed my pillows into the pillowcases, we threw my white comforter on top of my bed and stuffed the edges into the wooden side rails of my bed. Next came the fun part, I had three euro pillow shams with pink fringe that lined the headboard of my bed. Then we placed the bed pillows on very smoothly. After the bed pillows were two standard white shams that matched my comforter, however my mom had them monogramed with my initials in light pink. After the monogramed pillows, we had a bolster pillow with the same pink fringe. As if that wasn’t enough, my pink teddy bear, Pinky was placed right on top of the pile. I never realized how many pillows I had until I typed them all out in this list, however I love my bed and how it shows my personality. I like for the things in my life to be organized and well put together, however the items which are most important to me always come first. I never knew that learning how to make my bed could turn into a life lesson, but I love learning new things and the sense of accomplishment that follows.