Missing Socks!!

The other day, I noticed that ASid had a hole in his sock and I wondered out loud why that is the case?! What happened to the many pairs of socks he has?! Surely, one of them has no holes?! ASid responded with, "Oh, I am waiting for the wash to come out!" What wash?! I reminded him that he hasn't "submitted any dirty laundry" in a couple of weeks. Gone were the days when I would walk into his room and get his clothes to wash. ASid was like, "Oh, I will get them now! Sorry mom!" His room has become his sanctum sanctorum and we all stay out. As I waited patiently, ASid ran into his room and came out with a bag of laundry. When I finally got to it, at the end of the day, I found 2 million t-shirts in there. OK! More like 2 dozen, but felt like more. The point to note here is not my ability to exaggerate, but that there were no socks in the bag he submitted. In a real world situation, that's a fail! But since this is my child, I gave him another opportunity to find all the dirty socks in his room.

In reality, this post has nothing to do with missing socks. It is really about missing ASid. The boy is on a school trip. Before he left, he said that one third of my problems will be gone for a couple of days. I protested and said that I consider them my responsibilities and I am happy to take care of them. He also gave me a big hug and thanked me for helping him get ready for the trip.

Since I like to exaggerate, I want to write that I was up at a godforsaken hour and struggled to get the boy ready. However, it wasn't all that bad. The only real problem we ran into was a lack of clean pair of socks to last the entire trip! This, in spite of me doing a whole load of ASid's clothes a couple of days prior to the trip!

One of these days, ASid will remember to include those socks; maybe when his friends' noses will protest. Right now, I hope the boy is having a great time and not worrying about socks. As if!

By the way, today is the kid’s half birthday which we used to celebrate once upon a time. He is 15 and a half today. How time flies!