Come over! Come in!
We love having friends in our home. We're not up too early, but come in the morning and get a latte with breakfast. Or, stop by mid-day and have lunch. If you knock on my door mid-afternoon, you'll probably be offered another latte, or tea, and maybe we can sit on the front porch while the kids ride their bikes. Oooh - we can have cookies! Come in the evening and I might even open a bottle of wine while you join us for dinner.
Yes, I'm learning to cook, and I like it.
Come anytime, and we'll be happy to see you and you can stay as long as you want. But please be forwarned: You'll lose your socks.
Yes, I'm afraid my house is The Place of the Missing Socks.
Perhaps it is the by-product of being a "shoeless" household. Oh - no, we have shoes. Do we have shoes! I grew up thinking Nordies was a good reason to drive a young family 8 hours each way to the "big city." Yes, we have shoes.
We're shoeless as in, we don't wear our shoes in the house.
And yet somehow, that translates to little socks (and big ones) being misplaced or left in all sorts of odd places. Particularly, under the kitchen table, in the bathroom, and definitely in the playroom amongst the stuffed animals and story rug. Often, it's only one sock, which makes me wonder why I don't see more people around here in a single foot-covering. It is not just my family - when we have guests, I frequently find their little socks hanging out with ours.
I've heard that the truest sign of hospitality is how much a guest feels at home. Hmmm....
So come over! Take off your socks! Stay a while!
5 comments:
Since the arrival of Master 5 and Miss 4 I too have experienced the issues of socks but mainly the odd sock issue.
Here are my thoughts on odd socks and what happens to them on laundry day.....
No matter how may pairs of socks you put in the clothes dryer you always have single lonely ones at the end of a drying cycle......I have discovered where they go. They go off to some mystical place and come back as hangers from the cleaners or as paper and plastic bags from the grocery store. I came to this conclusion as I always have enough hangers and bags but never enough socks to pair up.
Happy sock hunting : )
Seattle Aussie
Seattle Aussie - Yes! We have too many plastic bags, and this even though we recylcle and take our own cloth bags to the store. How does that happen? I think your theory of socks => bags is really on to something. :)
I rarely wear socks, (because I wear Birks a lot) so I will be right over! Maybe you could teach the boys to make sock puppets with all the solo socks.
Mallory - yes, do come over! We could make sock puppets and go to thrift stores together. :)
(see malinthemiddle.herhangout.com for more info)
So do thrift stores take just one sock?
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