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Amerisleep AS3 Reviews

  My Amerisleep AS3 Unboxing Video (Surprise, my voice is ridiculous!) If I can (just barely) do it, you can totally tackle a bed-in-a-box by yourself. Updated 10/15/22 Amerisleep's AS5 was recently featured as the 'Best Soft Mattress in a Box' by Good Housekeeping , with the panel of reviewers noting: Pressure relief for side sleepers Taller than other boxed mattresses Good customer service    Amerisleep Mattress Reviews  We've been happy Amerisleep customers since purchasing our first AS3 mattress more than 9 years ago. Now we also have an AS2 and an AS4 (the AS3 is still our favorite). Born with chronic insomnia  (even as a baby - my family insists I was a nightmare), the struggle to improve my sleep is my life. My husband, the overly-analytical mechanical engineer, was initially skeptical of a mail-order mattress, but he was quickly won over. 2012: Wine glass test, sans wine. I was fairly confident our brand-new mattress would pass with f
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Window Seat Ideas

*Update:  Construction on our dream house is finally finished! Sexy Nerd and I are planning to build a window seat beneath the windows in our dining room. Well, really Sexy Nerd is going to build it while I blog in my pajamas, but I'm still planning to take 98% of the credit. I love all the possibilities offered by a new window seat - extra storage, a reading nook, and even a place to stretch out and take a nap. Here are some photos I've gathered from various sites for the best window seat ideas . There's something for every style, from a traditional all-white farmhouse to a cozy mountain hideaway. Update: This post has been so popular that I've added more window seat ideas . Enjoy! Window Seat Ideas Which photo below is your favorite? My original  window seat ideas   post was written in February, 2011, when we were planning to add a window seat to our home. Two+ years later, how is that window seat coming along? To quote Christmas Vacation, I can picture it in my min
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Party Ideas From Your (Antisocial) Holiday Hostess With the Mostest

I was just scheduling one of our dental patients for December 21st, our last day in the office for 2018, and said we'll see them next week, then thought that couldn't possibly be right. December 21st is next week?! Where the heck has my year gone? I'd better publish this post before it turns into Merry Thanksgivmas. SN and I hosted Thanksgiving in our new home this year. Despite all our antisocial impulses (we're essentially hermits), we had a blast! Bring on the socializing!  Actually, we did bring on the socializing with another small dinner party and overnight guests the very next weekend. And that was quite enough for these two introverts. No more socializing until next year, please. We went even bigger and better than last year's Thanksgiving . We even had a seating chart! Martha Stewart would be so proud. #1 must-have item when hosting Thanksgiving = adorable turkey invitations I made these, and the other printables in this post, for
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Mountain Home Decor (Holiday Edition!)

We decorated our mountain home for the holidays yesterday and woke up blanketed inside a snowy winter wonderland today. Living in the NM mountains is the best! Mountain Home Decor If you don't have one of these wooden bears on your porch, is it even really a mountain home? (Wooden bear carvers everywhere say no.) Up in the mountains, we "let it snow" to the point that we're snowed in. Luckily, our John Deere tractor is always ready to come to our rescue. We'd rather stay home anyway. A collection of rustic red lanterns from a Colorado antique shop adds color to the patio. (You know, in case our yellow front door didn't do the trick.) When decorating your mountain dream home, natural hides and antlers can be used in a modern, sophisticated way to keep things from feeling like a hunting lodge. There are more photos of our hallway in the post, The Great Wallpaper Mural Indecision . I'm pretty sure this is my favorite phot
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