"Have you ever put on your kids’ socks because you were too busy to go upstairs and find your own when they had clean ones downstairs?? A new first for me…did it this morning…wearing the 5 year-old's socks today!"Ahh, the secret shames of parenthood.
Not only have I worn my children's socks when it seemed too much work to find my own, I have literally taken my own socks off my feet and given them to my son.
The search for socks in our house is in no way directly correlated to the amount of socks we have currently in the house. If I come home with brand new socks from Target, place them in all appropriate sock drawers, the search for matching, clean socks still takes 10 minutes.
A wise woman I know once hypothesized that in the dryer single socks turn into T-shirts. Now that my husband and I do laundry for a family of six, I absolutely know, she was right.
The single, oddly shaped sock dominates the clean laundry pile and no matter how often I purge their clothes, shutting the kids' t-shirt drawers is an Herculean effort.
So the idea that those dirty, single socks mate in the laundry pile and turn into wrinkled, slightly stained t-shirts is not conjecture any more. It is absolute fact.
