Our friends and neighbors are finishing 2025 up with a bang. Not only are they having one of their IVF embryos implanted tomorrow, but in anticipation of their growing family, they also bought a four-bedroom house a few miles from here. Not surprisingly, their parents are super excited, a reaction intensified by the fact that they are both only children.
"You'll never believe what my parents said the other day," one of them told us. "They want to buy a king-sized adjustable bed for our guest room!"
"Awesome!" I said, considering the generosity of such an offer.
Her husband rolled his eyes. "We said no," he said.
"Those bedrooms are going to be for the kids one day," his wife added. "We told them a queen-sized bed would be fine. We already have the frame, and if they want to buy an adjustable mattress, they can," she shrugged.
"But guess what her dad said when we told them that?" her husband laughed.
"He said, 'I don't sleep in a queen bed'," the wife answered with exasperation.
Heidi and I made eye contact. Her parents were actually closer in age to us than our friends were. "It will be years before you need that bedroom for kids," I noted.
"And you know your parents are going to be a huge help when the baby is born," Heidi added.
"The older you get, a good night's sleep is not as easy to come by as you might think," I said. "And your parents are offering to pay for the whole bed."
They seemed to take what we said under consideration, but who knows? Maybe when things settle down a bit, they'll be more open.
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