Friday, May 16, 2008

More Monkey News and the Truth About My Socks.

I was woke up this morning by a very obviously upset Manly Man yelling, "What did you do?' I got up and found that Baby Monkey's face, neck, and shoulder were covered in blue ink. He had "bit" an ink cartridge during the night. Now tell me why you would get up in the middle of the night, take a pen apart, and bite the ink cartridge? WHY?WHY?WHY?WHY?

Yesterday, I found the giant sheet of bubble wrap in the bathtub. It was wet. Someone had taken a bath with it. Sister#2 says this makes sense as they may have been using it as a floatation devise. I asked her to raise them. She declined.

Later, my mother calls. She is in a big box store with Middle Monkey and one of the girl cousins. I think this is odd as it is the middle of the day. Apparently, she went to eat lunch with the two of them at school and somehow the little creatures talked her into taking them with her when she left. My mother, the woman who never fell for anything and never, I mean never ever, allowed us to miss school unless we were on our death bead, this woman signed those kids out of school early. Did hell freeze over?

Now I have a confession. I have three pairs of fuzzy socks. I love my fuzzy socks. I hate it when my feet are cold. I have been known to wear these fuzzy socks with gardening clogs while taking my boys to school. You should see how fast they can get out of the truck when I do. If socks are going to be outlawed, I am going to become a fuzzy sock wearing criminal. You won't take me alive. I will die with my socks on. There are three days left in the sock poll. So far Ourfriendben is losing quite badly. You could give him and hand and leave me to my life of crime or you could make an honest woman out of me and save the fuzzy socks.

21 comments:

  1. Baby Monkey needs bite therapy....Fuzzy socks are only for cool people , such as myself! I don't know where you were but your mom always let me miss school. GO BEN.... whoever you are....I love a winner! Thats all I've got ta say 'boout that! ....

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  2. Hi, meme. We both know I am not one of the cool people, but don't you dare try to take my fuzzy socks.

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  3. The ice has just reached over here ;)

    Have a great weekend - do you think sanity will ever reach your house?

    I'm with OFB - bare feet rule!

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  4. Thanks, Meme and VP! Bare feet *do* rule, and nothing else comes close. But in the interests of full disclosure, I will reveal that Silence actually owns not one but two pairs of fuzzy socks, and has been known to wear them to bed in the dead of winter. (Hey, it gets cold up here!) However. I still maintain that socks on feet, like gardening gloves, simply separate people from the pleasurable experience of feeling bare ground or polished wood or cushy carpet or even smooth leather. That creature who steals the socks out of your dryer is acting for your own good. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

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  5. I am "split" on this matter .. I so NEED my fuzzy socks in the winter .. in fact they are colour co-ordinated with fuzzy pajamas and fuzzy robe .. and they are SCREAMING PINK .. so I too will leave this earth with my socks ON in that situation.
    Then the menopausal side of me has to have BARE feet .. even between heat waves most times (except in winter madness cycle) .. socks in my CROCS (knock off crocs by the way .. no self respecting gardener would pay $40 for these things) .. but NO ... no no no no .. socks in crocs .. its just WRONG Debiie !!!
    Ok .. split personality has to leave the room now ..
    I vote in two catagories and Debbie ? .. don't let me catch you with socks in your crocs girl !!!!
    Joy

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  6. Joy, sock-n-crocs has happened and you know what's worse. The pajamas were pink with pigs on them and the robe was fuzzy and pink. The Monkeys almost died from shame.

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  7. You sound like my oldest daughter. Her feet are always cold. Me, I'm always hot. (But then consider my age!) That post made me smile. I remember what it was like being a mother with kids home and all their monkey-shines! They do manage to get into a hell of a lot of trouble, don't they! Try to live through the weekend. I'll be looking for you come Monday!
    Brenda

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  8. Oh, Girl, I am laughing so hard. The blue ink cartridge, fooling Nana, a flotation device. You are in a zoo, not a family. Hugs.~~Dee

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  9. Hi Brenda, yes lots and lots of trouble.

    Hi Dee, It is the monkey house in the zoo. Hugs back.

    Deb

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  10. Hilarious post! I've been known to wear socks with Crocs, in public. Don't care what anyone thinks. I wore heels for too many years before retirment and now I'll stick with Crocs and other ugly, comfortable shoes. They have some really cute new Crocs now, so I'm going to add to my Croc collection soon!
    Aiyana

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  11. Hmm, bitting an ink cartridge? That's a new one to me. Too bad they didn't choose a pen that was out of ink. SIGH.

    Glad for the bubble wrap explaination. I guess it may possibly make sense to a child. It does float, well before water gets on it anyway....

    Fuzzy socks? I LOVE fuzzy socks. I wouldn't live life without them. I am now down to 7 pairs of them though sadly. Okay, I'm a bit obsessive with my socks but it does tend to get rather cold in the winter time. I guess we can be outlaws together. Maybe I'll go change my vote? (Those darn pom-poms ARE rather annoying though....)

    Isn't it funny how grandmas are so much more lax with grandkids than they were with their own kids?

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  12. Aiyana, Thanks for having my back on the croc-n-socks thing. We will be appalling to Joy together.

    Cinj, I can't totally explain my kids or my mother. Fuzzy socks have quite a following.

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  13. Well, I'm shocked and appalled by the lack of anti-sock support. But I'm writing now because Silence Dogood (who was not best pleased by my revealing her sock preferences--when will I learn?!!) noticed the Croc comments and asked me to put in a plug for her favorite shoes, Skechers (er, sp?) maryjanes. After years of wearing high (and sometimes *very* high) heels to the office, Silence discovered these basic-black, soft, comfy, flexible, breathable shoes, that gave your toes plenty of room and had Velcro straps for instant fit. Except for summer, when she switches to sandals, I don't think I've seen her in anything else since then. She's now on her third pair, and recommends them to everyone. (Okay, Silence, am I forgiven now?!)

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  14. I agree with Silence, the Sketchers are great shoes. High heels are bad unless they are really really cute.

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  15. No heels here either! I really don't care how cute they are either. Well, they aren't completely horrible if the heels are wide. I prefer tennis shoes or sandals.

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  16. HI cinj, if you check under the sisters tab on the side bar there is a piture of some really cute heels.

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  17. Well, I don't care what you do as long as you keep being you! And our kids will never think we are perfect no matter if we were models. They will bolt from our cars to get away until they are out of school and have kids of their own. Then, they will be just like us. No kid thinks their mom is cool.

    I have all kinds of shoes. I guess I wear my crocs the most. I do have them in about 10 colors!

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  18. Anna, thank you for being so sweet. I quit trying to be cool a long time ago. I'm going to be me no matter what

    I only have four colors of crocs. I guess I need to get shopping.

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  19. LOL! I wore fuzzy socks and crocs together to the grocery the other day...never remembering what I have on I was wondering why people were staring at me.

    How, oh how did your boys talk her into taking them out of school??? That really needs to be a post. LOL!

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  20. Hi Sherry. Several of us are on Joy's worst dressed list, I'm sure.

    They have their grandfathers huge hazel eyes. All they did was look at her like puppies and she melted.

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