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HE FOUND HIM LIVING AT THE
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longer to tuck in her doll. Then,
when the doll is settled, the pan-
da also has to be accommodat-
ed. A wonderful children's book,
Winifred's New Bed, captures a
similar situation, a little girl
edged out of bed by her many
toys, but my daughter brings it
to life.
As for our master bedroom,
don't even ask. I have destroyed
the image of the flawless Jewish
housekeeper with just one room,
a room better suited, perhaps,
to the perfect Jewish librarian.
Books are piled on the shelves
and the windowsill and the end
tables. My bedside reading is a
mountain, not a mound and, for-
tunately, my husband has the
same vicc otherwise, he'd have
plenty to complain about.

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Soon,
printed matter
will take
over the bed.

The bed sits in the center of
this pleasant room, surrounded
by big windows and greenery,
and enough magazines, books
and newspapers to keep a dor-
mitory's worth of drowsy read-
ers occupied. I keep trying to
clear back the accumulated
books, but they multiply while
we sleep. Soon, printed matter
will take over the bed as well as
the floor, except for this one
patch of floor the dog has
claimed.
Now the dog has her own bed,
a sweet little red plaid, padded
cushioned basket just made for
her. There is only one problem
with it: She never sleeps there.
She has a night patrol: under
one child's bed, on the rug at the
foot of our bed, and when she
can get away with it, on the liv-
ing room couch. She is very
aware that this is forbidden. In
her sleep, she can hear me step
into the room, even when Pm tip-
toeing in socks. In her sleep, she
springs off the couch, looking in-
nocent all the while. She knows
I know she knows, but it does me
no good whatsoever.
I fight this battle every morn-
ing: straighten our room, make
four beds for three kids, brush
the dog hairs off the couch. I
know there is a solution to this
bedlam somewhere. Maybe I
could figure it out, if I could only
sleep on it. ❑

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ou've made your bed, now
lie in it.
Sorry, I haven't made it
yet.
My sheets don't fit. My blan-
ket isn't straight. My spread has
/
a mind of its own. My pillows are
too big for my cases and my dust
ruffle is dusty. I want a nap, but
I haven't got anywhere to take
it.
This is a saga of beds.
Sounds simple, but just you
wait and see. There are five peo-
ple in our family, plus a dog, and
/-
providing bedding for each of
them is its own separate issue.
Right now, my son is asleep
on the floor of my den, sprawled
on his sister's sleeping bag, ex-
hausted at last by his efforts to
stay with Mommy until he pass-
es out. My husband is nodding
at the paper-covered dining
table, an activity he refers to as
"going through the mail." My
oldest daughter is asleep in the
guest bed in my middle daugh-
ter's room, although we just re-
arranged her own bedroom to
her precise liking not three
weeks ago. And the dog is on the
couch, naturally.
When I wake up my oldest in
the morning, she will stagger out
of her sister's room and, some-
how, between there and her clos-
et, she will be captured by her
own bed. She will fall into it, and
doze another 20 minutes, just
long enough to create another
frantic school morning, and an-
/-
other bed to make. I can prevent
this if I stick with her every sec-
ond, but it isn't easy. She's quick,
that one.
By the time I wake up the
smaller children, my son will
have totally stripped his bed, as
he does almost every night. His
pillows will be on the floor; his
blanket will be tangled with his
top sheet, and his head will be
at the foot of the bed half hidden
by a plush dinosaur. He moves
more in his sleep than a major
league baseball team does in
broad daylight.
I know morning will find my
middle daughter—who is never
lonely when she sleeps whether
or not her sister is present—
squeezed to one narrow side of
her bed. This is necessitated by
her choice of bed-fellows: a big
doll and a bigger stuffed panda.
The doll doesn't just sleep with
my child; the doll sleeps with my
> child but in her own cardboard
box bed, which is about nine
inches wide and a foot-and-a-
halflong. It takes a while to tuck
my child in at night, but it takes

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