No Sleep For You!

Of all the beds in all the rooms in sprawling Villa Parmina, none so far has suited Debra (daughter # 4, on left).

Like Goldilocks, Debra has had the hardest time finding a comfortable bed to sleep in. This is a picture of the bed she slept in the first night. It looks pretty nice doesn't it?

But the room that the bed occupies has a sickening smell of damp and plug-in air freshener--no one could sleep there. So, on the following night (Sunday) she moved out and slept in this bed.

This bed was OK but the room was really cold (that was before we figured out how to turn-on the heat!). So the next night she tried to sleep on a short sofa in the living room. In order to sleep on it, she had to prop up her legs on the back of the sofa, kind of like this.

Needless to say, she didn't sleep well that night either. So she moved--again--and the next night tried sleeping in the big bed with Mom.

However, Mom snores.
Debra was losing it but determined to get at least one good night's sleep in Taormina. She started thinking about moving out of the villa and began to comb the internet for inexpensive hotels nearby.
We talked her out of it.
Together we agreed on a new sleeping configuration: Debra in the bed in the room in the picture above (third picture down), alone, and now with heat. Susan (daughter #3, the Night Watchman) in the huge bed with Mom; Joyce (daughter number 1, and the one Mom likes best) in the double bed on the lower level with me (daughter number 2); Cathy (#6) in an extra bed set-up in my room (she had been sleeping every night on a large sofa in the living room); and Donna (# 5) in the same bed she's been in from day one.
We'll see how it goes tonight and check back with you tomorrow ...

Buona Notte!