Bring on the milk!

One of my all-time favorite children's stories is a cute little book called "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie..." For those of you that never read it, it's about a little boy who gives a mouse a cookie, which then makes the mouse want a glass of milk. In a marvelously accurate representation of how life works, the story snowballs until the mouse is asking for everything from brooms to scotch tape. This has happened so often in my life that "if you give a mouse a cookie" has become a catchphrase for situations that play out exactly that same way. Allow me to demonstrate......

In a most wonderful, much-anticipated turn, I finally bought a new mattress set!! (**collective applause**) It is a delicious little piece of heaven, and upon waking up this morning after my first night of snoozing on foam-topped splendor, I was ticked that I actually had to remove myself from my own little cloud.

In true glass-of-milk-needing-status, I didn't anticipate that this new bed would also predicate multiples of new needs. For example, a queen bed requires new sheets, a new mattress pad, more pillows, new bed spread, etc...which i guess is kind of to be expected. What I didn't expect is that my new cloud is enormous and dwarfs all of my other bedroom furniture. My 'princess and the pea' nature is loving the fact that I have to physically climb up onto this new sleep entity, but I'm sorta looking down to see my tv. So now I need a bigger tv stand. And a new night stand. And maybe a bigger dresser. And since I need a new bedspread, maybe I should abandon my beachy-palm tree-inspired design and start over with new decorations...which will then spread to my connecting bathroom....oh dear.........

Maybe I should just start with a glass of milk. ;-)