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October 29, 2009
Things I just don’t get about school.
Tomorrow is apparently pajama day at school. I am so confused by this. Why does anyone want to wear their pajamas out in public. Maybe all of your children have adorable, school appropriate pajamas, but uh, we do not.
Pajamas at my house look like:
1) Old ill fitting t-shirts and ugly elastic waist shorts. Shorts optional. Shirts optional.
2) Underwear
3) Clothes they already wore that day.
Back in the days when my children bathed at night they would always put on their clothes that they were going to wear the next day and sleep in them. Now that they shower in the morning they frequently will just wear whatever they wore that day to sleep in. Go ahead and judge me, I don’t care.
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The other morning I went in to wake up my 10 yr old son. We had been out at birthday party until about midnight. The bedroom was dark. When I got up close to him I realized he had climbed into bed with his sneakers still on. And that strange lump in the bed? That was the balloon he still had tied to his wrist.
He is so ready for life in a frat house.
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My 13 yr old at his football game. He is not smiling because I cleaned his room yesterday. Oh no, that did not make him smile ONE BIT. In fact picture the exact oppositie of this smiling face in the photo and you will know what he looked like. Apparently all those scraps of paper he had strewn all over the floor of his room, along with random lego pieces, gum wrappers, and indistinguishable trash were important. In fact it was all important. Even the broken headphones– he was planning on fixing those!
Lesson learned, if things are important to you, treat them as though they are worth something. Otherwise your mother will come into your room with a big black garbage bag, or THREE, and throw it all away.
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We have what is called Spirit Week. There is a different theme everyday and pajama day is one of them; the last day is dressing in the school colors. I agree I don’t quite get this week, but my daughter is so disappointed if she doesn’t get one day where she can wear her pajamas.
Back in the day of one kid, she had matching pjs and wore a new one every night. Now, we still have the actual pajama sets, but you can wear however you want and I prefer if you don’t wear a new one everynight. You are clean when you put them on, so you are clean when you wake up. Less laundry for me.
Oh, my daughter rarely wears actual or matching pjs to school and neither do the rest of the kids. Most look like it was a good excuse not to do any grooming that day. Hell, some even come in slippers, which is gross to me.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:48 amI feel your pain with the room cleanings. i do that chore about twice a year and what i deem garbage is gone.
omg thought football photo was of oldest. my how they change so fast.
concussion boy is out for a week of school and will be seeing ESM next wed
Chris says: I hope he is feeling better soon!
October 29th, 2009 at 11:48 amI’m so glad to find out we are not the only family that sleeps in the clothes we will wear the next day. I makes mornings so much easier when all they have to do to get ready for school is jump out of bed, brush teeth, comb hair, hop on bus. My 15 year old son still does this. I often wonder how his future wife is going to break him of this habbit. I get a giggle when I think of the expression on her face on their wedding night when he sleeps fully clothed. Ha Ha
October 29th, 2009 at 11:49 amWe had pajama day here as well. In fact we had spirit week last week. There was nerd day, neon day, 50’s day…you name it. It was interesting to watch the choice of clothing my kids made. Very entertaining.
October 29th, 2009 at 12:09 pm“He is so ready for life in a frat house.” That is not only hysterical but oh so insightful! Ps. Right now I am wearing what wore yesterday, all day. Oh yeah, and I wore it to bed last night. I totally get your logic.
October 29th, 2009 at 12:24 pmYep! I used to tell my kids that if I had to clean their room, things would go missing. . . sometimes their favorite toys. Stored in a garbage bag for a couple weeks until perhaps the message that orderliness is desirable for all kinds of reasons came clear to them.
October 29th, 2009 at 12:29 pmOMG…so glad to know I’m not the only trash bag bandit…I will give plenty of fair warning but if not heeded then eventually I will walk in there (w/ gas mask and gloves!)and throw away whatever I believe to be trash…emphasis on “believe” cause there has been some science experiments in there I’ve been too weak to peruse and into the bag they go!
As for Pajama Day…I had to buy (granted…I only have one kid so the cost is a lot less) one set we “put aside” for PJ days at school…it’s umm…two sizes too big so should last at least two more school years (I roll up the sleeves and bottoms ’cause if you are already going to look like a clown going to school then rolled up parts shouldn’t matter!) because we too use whatever is available to sleep in.
October 29th, 2009 at 12:49 pmI could have so posted this same thing. It was pajama day today at my 8 year old son’s school. He wanted to wear the Mario long john style pajamas. I said no. The only somewhat appropriate styled pajamas we could find were last years that now are capri length. That’s what he wore and assured me that 2nd graders don’t care about the length of their pants. I hate pajama day!
Don’t get me started on the trashed bedrooms. My 11 yr old daughter leaves gum wrappers everywhere. I found underwear on her window sill yesterday — clean or dirty I didn’t care to find out. I declared that bedrooms must be beautiful by noon on Saturday or Halloween doesn’t happen. Do you think it will work?
October 29th, 2009 at 12:53 pmHonestly, your children look like models. You have such an amazingly beautiful family!
Chris says: Aw, thank you.
October 29th, 2009 at 12:55 pmI never understood “pajama day” either. Or all the other “fun” theme days they have throughout the year for that matter. When my daughter started HS they sent home a dress code which, among other things, specifically forbade pajamas, slippers and/or underwear worn as clothing. Really. It’s sick.
October 29th, 2009 at 12:59 pmYeah–pajama day. Go figure on why this is so exciting to kids. I love the black and white photo — your son looks like a movie star, actually.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:00 pmOur PJs are just like yours. While I am pretty sure none of mine have worn a balloon to bed, they are young, there is still time. For PJ Day, I usually go out and buy them PJs…just for that one day, sometimes I get lucky and they wear them again on Xmas Eve.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:01 pmMy kids have pajama day tomorrow as well (because costumes are of the devil I suppose) and I have a similar problem to yours, except my kids just sleep in the buff & I’m pretty sure the school would frown on that.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:03 pmOh my gosh, your 2nd son is looking like an adult-boy now, like your oldest! Very handsome.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:21 pmBe careful about pajama day. I sent my son in the wrong thing one year in middle school and he called home and then hid in the boys’ bathroom until I came with new clothes.
Elementary school - anything goes, bathrobes, stuffed animals fine
Middle school - for boys, the more like normal street clothes the better… T shirt and at most some manly drawstring pants.
We always had to go out and by a proper pair of pajamas the night before pajama day.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:26 pmMust be the girlies who thought it was a great idea to wear pj’s to school. I never cared for it either, even though I have 4 girls and just 1 boy. I usually had to go out and buy new pajamas.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:27 pmPajamas - I work for a large private university. Kids routinely go to class in those flannel pajama pants and t-shirts. I believe one of the local high schools has banned them from class…who needs pajama day when you dress like that every day?
October 29th, 2009 at 1:28 pmMy kids wear the same pajamas. I’m always amazed at kids that have “real” pajamas to wear on pajama day.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:31 pmThat’s a lesson my mom taught me, and I’ve never forgotten it.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:38 pmThe reason they have a special dress up day is because they are not allowed to celebrate Halloween or Easter or any other holiday that includes junk foods. It is called FMNV ( I think) Foods of Minimal Nutritional Value. I work with a first grade teacher and this subject comes up a lot. They are having career day at my son’s school tomoorrow instead of Halloween. I hope this sheds some light on things.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:49 pmI don’t get the PJ thing either. We have PJs, but inherited a bunch of girl ones, so my 3 yr old son wears girl pjs. Hasn’t bothered him yet, but I imagine won’t go over so well in pre-school. Now I have to buy new pjs?! For preschool?!
October 29th, 2009 at 1:51 pmJudge you? No way; I’m just glad to hear I’m not the only one. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said at bedtime, “School uniforms are NOT pajamas!” This, despite having drawers full of adorable, pj-day-at-school-appropriate pajamas.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:55 pmOkay, I guess my new title is Warden. My kids don’t sleep in the clothes they wore the day before unless they are sleeping on the floor and not on the clean sheets in their bed. If I had to clean a 13 year-old son’s bedroom, as in shovel it out, he also would not be smiling - he wouldn’t be playing in a football game either. If he can’t keep the room to a decent level of clean, he ain’t gonna play ball. Would the Coach allow sloppy playing? I don’t allow sloppy rooms - and I count more than the coach. My kids played sports all through school, they also understood that if they followed the rules at home, they had a ton of liberty to follow their hearts in the passion of sports.
Chris says: Uh, well, good for you? I prefer to choose my battles.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:00 pm1) I wish schools would coordinate their randome clothing rules week. Last week it was daycare and I had to explain (over and over and over) to the kindergartner that her school wouldn’t relax their uniform policy because daycare was hosting pajama day. This week it’s kindergarten’s turn and while I’m not above telling my 3-year-old that she and her sister sometimes have different rules, I am tired of having to be the bad guy so often in two weeks.
2) No judging here. Look! Something shiny!
3) LOVE the visual of your 10-yr-old ruling the frat party.
TOO funny!
4) You are a much cooler mom than I. I would have handed out the garbage bags and spent much time screaming and sending said child back into the fray and there still would have been anger and anti-smiles. Probably a gazillion more so than your way. Must remember this.
5) I think I am the only American who doesn’t enjoy turkey. I like the drumsticks - that’s it. Except I do like turkey in turkey soup. And so, I bake it. Every year. Yay turkey soup!
October 29th, 2009 at 2:04 pmI sooo get you on this pajama day at school thing. My daughter completely agrees with me. Last year at preschool she BEGGED me to not make her wear even her 1 pair of cute pajamas. She didn’t even want to go buy cute pajamas to wear. When I asked, she said, “Because it is school, Mom. You don’t wear pajamas to school.”
I think she’s totally right. I am convinced PJ day was invented by teachers who want to wear sweat pants that day or those big comfy pajama bottoms with a t-shirt. Teachers have it rough these days though, so I will give them this.
My 10 year old would have been all over me about the trash bags too. And your description of what was on his floor could almost exactly match my son’s carpet. It is SCARY.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:16 pmHmm, my kids where pajamas. The six year old often asks if she can wear the clothes she wore that day to bed, this mean mom says No. I don’t even have a good reason for saying no. I might have to rethink that next time. Why shouldn’t they wear that to bed, less laundry that way?
At least it was only 3 garbage bags, my 13 year old and I cleaned out her bedroom this weekend and moved her to another room. 10!!! garbage bags later, we were finally done.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:22 pmWow! I feel so much better about our pj routine or lack there of. I am giving up because they just take them off when they get in bed anyway. lol
I LOVE that photo of your 13 year old. That is just a beautiful photo. And your frat house comment seriously made my day.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:25 pmComing from an adult who often slept in her day clothes as a kid, I have no judgement. It happens.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:26 pmMy kids sleep in their clothes, too; and if they are clean and don’t smell, they may just wear them again the next day. They are boys, and they just don’t care. I stopped buying pajamas for them years ago.
And I agree, your kids are gorgeous. But I’ve met their parents, and I can see why ;-).
October 29th, 2009 at 2:45 pmMy kids almost always sleep in the clothes they wore that day, too. Gina is just so much better than us. Something to strive for!!!!!!!
October 29th, 2009 at 2:49 pmMy 13 year old comes home from school, washes her face, takes out her contacts and puts on her pjs. we call her Hugh, as in Hefner. She has actual jammies but prefers pj pants or boxer shorts with t-shirts or tanks depending on the temp in the house and her mood. I’m surprised we didn’t have pajama day during spirit week. They had 80s day instead. Pajama day would have been easier for us.
As always, great photos!
Hugs!
October 29th, 2009 at 3:08 pmThe visual of your 10 yr old in bed with sneakers and the balloon made my day!
Hate pj day even though my kids do have school worthy jams. My daughter refuses to participate - she just wears slippers and one year she did wear her robe (an xmas gift). My middle guy last year said no way (already self conscious in 1st grade?) so I put them in his backpack in case he changed his mind (was also gym day - how do they do gym in PJs?) and he apparently forgot and was crying when he got off the bus because I was so mean and he had no pajamas (uhhh you told me you would never ever wear them, not in a box, not with a fox, but I still put them in a backpack and you are mad at me?). Lets ban pj day and crazy hair day! especially since my youngest only has hand me down pjs so I’m sure they won’t be school worthy by time he is in school!
October 29th, 2009 at 3:46 pmOne year in high school a friend of my son went to school in his tighty whities and a short robe (they call it get up and go day). I don’t think that went over too well. As far as the cleaning of the bedroom - I think I gave up at around that age and just shut the door when guests were over. Of course now both sons’ rooms are still a mess and they are off at college - I’ll get to it someday or maybe they will. Oh dear I let them play football all through high school with a sloppy room - how did they manage?
October 29th, 2009 at 3:58 pmHahaha wearing your clothes to bed at night after your bath…now that is a genius idea, I love it. Now, I just wonder if my kids(14,12,10 &2) will think I am going nuts or see it for what it is, f**kingly amazing and will save us all from the heartache that is school mornings!!
October 29th, 2009 at 4:17 pmMy 5 year old has pajama day in Kindergarten this year and he’s a nervous wreck because he sleeps in his underwear. He doesn’t understand why he can’t just wear his underwear to school. His older brother told him he can’t because he goes to Catholic school. I sort of think any school would frown upon one of the kids shoiwing up without any clothes on! Pajamas definitely aren’t one of the battles I choose in my house! Hopefully my kids will still turn out to be functioning adults. oh and I love your blog.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:46 pmoh and my kids celebrate Halloween, All Saints Day and Pajama day in their school. I think its just to drive the parents insane 3 times instead of once.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:47 pmNo pj’s? I luuuuuuuurrrrv my pj’s, I get them on the minute I’m certain we are done for the day. My boys will often have ‘pajama day’ on the first day of holidays.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:01 pmLOVE big black garbage bag day. In the middle of one right now, in preparation for all the additional crap that they are about to get for Christmas.
I keep thinking about you when I hear about the football concussion stories currently taking over the news. I wanted to know what your feelings were about it.
Also, I’m putting you on notice, that I expect some awesome Halloween pictures this year.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:22 pmCute post. We on the other hand do night showers, I don’t like the idea of smelly kids on clean beds, lol. We also have P.J.’s, didn’t know that was a weird thing. My older boys just have bottoms, and wear a t-shirt with it. Our schools only do pajama day in elementary school. Normally the boys don’t participate in said day after third grade.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:46 pmI am also a garbage bag bandit. They get pissed, but they know the drill. Don’t clean and I will…..straight into the trachcan, lol.
This week was say no to drugs week. We had hat day, crazy hair day, team jersey day, red day, and crazy sock day. The kids love it.
That just gave me a thought. I wish I could wear my pajamas to work. Man would that be nice.
October 29th, 2009 at 7:53 pmI agree with a couple of other posts. I thought this was your oldest son and all of your kids are amazingly beautiful. The older boys look alot like my stepson so maybe I’m biased a bit though! As always, love your pictures.
October 29th, 2009 at 7:55 pmI love it! Back when my son took regular baths, he too put on a clean set of clothes before bed and slept in them, and then wore them until the next night or the next bath. Now at 12!! I enforce clean clothes after his weekly shower! We are working on the idea of a shower every third day…but it seems to stretch to once a week in practice. I pride myself on the fact that I win the bath/shower/clean clothes war any time my son might have been exposed to poison oak. And at 12 yrs. old, with over a decade of serious nature rambles, he has never ended up with a poison oak rash. So I think I rock.
Friends promise me that personal hygiene will become important to him sometime in his teenage years…
October 29th, 2009 at 8:12 pmI’m about to black-garbage-bag my teen daughter’s room. I’ve totally given up on the old “clean your room so you can do whatever” technique. It’s not worth my time. I’m dumping it all into those garbage bags and she can pay me if she wants certain items back. I need the money, anyway.
October 29th, 2009 at 8:14 pmWe dont wear tomorrows clothes to bed, but we have worn todays clothes to bed.
We have a few matching pajama sets but the same tops and bottoms somehow are never clean at the same time, so they are worn with whatever you can find. Mostly some pj bottom and whatever tshirt or sweat shirt you find.
October 29th, 2009 at 8:16 pmHATE pajama day for the same reason–my kids sleep in old, worn out stuff most of the time! So I always find myself at freaking Walmart at 7pm, the night before, so they have CUTE pajamas to wear to school.
Love the balloon tied to the wrist visual! Adorable!
October 29th, 2009 at 10:02 pmThank God that I am not the only one!! I let them wear what they want to bed. My girls are 4. They usually wear what they wore that day, but sometimes they get something clean out of the closet. It’s all fine by me. I wash the sheets when they’re dirty and bathe the girls every other day (mostly).
I love your blog!!
October 29th, 2009 at 10:05 pmI did the same thing for my preteen and teen. I called it the Great Bedroom Declutter of 2009. I inisted both help since the mess was caused by both. Both were miserable and almost weeping at the end, but the bedrooms seem a little clearer at least. Here’s my post: http://musingsfromme.com/my-swiffer-was-not-up-to-the-job/
October 29th, 2009 at 10:08 pmDrives me nuts to see all the teachers in their jammies. TMI for me.
October 29th, 2009 at 10:19 pmI have worked with kids for 25 years and I will NEVER understand pajama day. But the kids love it.
October 29th, 2009 at 10:50 pmIt’s Red Ribbon Week here…perhaps everywhere, I have no idea. That’s a whole week devoted to being drug free. Monday the kids made posters, Tuesday was wear red, Wednesday was mix match to show how your brain gets mixed up when on drugs, Today was Pajama day to show how you get lazy when on drugs, Tomorrow is Dress like what you want to be when you grow up Drug Free. Red Ribbon week always co-incides with Halloween and works out since in our Southern Baptist area of the country, celebrating Halloween is not allowed.
October 29th, 2009 at 10:53 pmAnd of course, there is the fact that at least one of the kids has already been to school in their jammies this year.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:16 pmMan, I loved pyjama day. But I am girly; I always wore a cute matching set. I understand that boys may not have that sort of thing though.
October 30th, 2009 at 5:01 amNo judging on pajamas here. My kids have cute pajamas and my 8yo usually sleeps either in what he wore that day or what he plans on wearing the next day. Less laundry for me from his room.
We’ve also had the lesson learned about important things in the room.
October 30th, 2009 at 5:27 amWe love pj’s in our house! In fact they are my childrens’ favorite clothing and they love getting new pj’s. But my kids also love wearing their favorite newly bought t-shirts to bed occasionally, although not generally again the next day. It’s going on at the moment actually with a new red t-shirt with an octopus on the front!
I don’t understand the ‘wearing tomorrow’s clothes to bed’ strategy; it only takes about 5 minutes to get dressed. Yet I have noticed it takes longer and longer as they get older, especially when it’s for school. It was so quick and easy when they were 2,3 and 4; those were the days!
Great photos and wit as always.
October 30th, 2009 at 5:31 amI so enjoyed reading this post. I have a 13 year old daughter who keeps her room “tidy” like your son. There are random scraps of paper here and there, gum wrappers, etc strewn about the room. When I can’t stand it anymore, I go in and do the exact same thing you did, large black trash bag and all! Always hoping to find some juicy bit of information, but darn….nothing yet.
October 30th, 2009 at 9:18 am#1 son wears his clothes to bed and often has to be reminded to put clean clothes (or at least clean underwear - would love it if he wore the same jeans a few days in a row…) on in the morning. My younger two care deeply about PJs tho and have an aunt who buys them cool ones. Every kid needs and aunt like that
October 30th, 2009 at 9:22 amIt used to drive me batty that my oldest (9) goes to bed in her school clothes, but like you, I’ve learnt to pick my battles.. I have a 4 yr old and 1 yr old who I am going to assume will do the same thing. Also, I too have gone in with a garbage bag (or 2) and I do find the experience really cleansing!!
October 30th, 2009 at 10:28 amps the girls love pj day the boys not so much
they do this in t-town also
October 30th, 2009 at 11:23 amOh, I am sooo getting a big black trash bag. Right now.
October 30th, 2009 at 12:30 pmWe don’t own pajamas here either, my kids just wear old sweats or basketball shorts to bed. We haven’t done the sleep in your clothes thing but since I’m all about starting the days out as stress free as possible I may have to try that out.
October 30th, 2009 at 1:21 pm@Stacey: Red Ribbon Week here too. FIVE DAYS of obscure combinations of clothing to come up with?…What?!?
My daughter was given some hand-me-ups (yes, she’s smaller than her 1-year-younger Amazon cousin), including a HUGE stack of pajama pants. Just the pants. So she’s wearing those to bed with the shirt she’ll be wearing the next day, and voila! Half the screaming, cursing, ummm, I mean dressing time in the morning.
Your 13yo is such a handsome one! Love the B/W photo.
October 30th, 2009 at 4:36 pmI AM SO GLAD my two wear uniforms. Does not matter - they all look the same. They too have pajama day. They tell me the day before and insist on participating. Usually they do not have a matching set OR the ones they want are dirty OR they wore that pair last year OR… if it’s an excuse they will come up with it.
As for the room… Dad will throw things away. I wonder how they can sleep at times. The 7 year old is neater than the 11 year old. Boy vs girl which is weird for she’s such a girlie girl. The room though…UGH. The rooms get organized, but do not necessarily stay that way. Disorganization is okay as long as there are not any undistinguishable odors, growths, and the like. There isn’t any trash or food - just STUFF. STUFF EVERYWHERE!
October 30th, 2009 at 5:40 pmWe own pajamas for pajama day but they aren’t actually slept in. I thought everyone over the age of 5 owned a pair to bring out once a year. Isn’t that the American way? To own stuff that rarely gets used?
Does anyone actually like turkey? I guess I shouldn’t ask that of a butterball employee!
October 30th, 2009 at 6:45 pmChris,
I have a smile on my face knowing that another mother has to use more than one large garbage bag to clean their son’s room. My son doesn’t smile either. I feel if it gets messy enough, he will clean it sooner or later. I too choose my battles!! (at least I will know when he gets a girlfriend - right?)LOL!!
Thanks for such a wonderful blog…it makes me smile everytime I read!
P.S. I also believe your kids should be models…maybe in the Sears catalog!!
October 30th, 2009 at 8:38 pmI am really curious as to what happened on PJ day. Did you run out and get everyone new PJs? Did you help them cobble together a G rated edition of what they would normally wear? Or did you send them to school in their regular clothes?
My kiddos have a drawer full of PJs to choose from. But there have been other occassions like today where they were most likely the only ones not wearing costumes to school because I didn’t want them to get dirty, or runined, or truthfully have to figure out how to clean them tonight. Nor did I want to put my creative, but I confess thrifty costume minus the coup the resistance which they could not take to school up against all the other costumes to be judged.
October 30th, 2009 at 11:57 pmCheck. Normal Mom. Kids sleep in flannel boxers from bin. Wear T-shirts to school from being slept in night before. Find pajama day at school to be annoying. Check. Have often found myself in the same clothes I have worn all day with wine stem firmly held in right hand and in snoring mode.
October 31st, 2009 at 12:10 amsooooooo - what if a mother wears her clothes to bed from the day before and then wears them right back out in public the next morning - in front of the SAME people? And, then sometimes will only change them/shower right before it is time to go out and see the SAME people again? Not that I have ever done this, really, but I’m just sayin’….
October 31st, 2009 at 11:19 amI am so glad I am not the only one who doesn’t “get” pajama day. I bought pj’s for the kids just for that day. I also don’t get how Valentine’s parties are not allowed because of th TAKS but lets load em up and sit them out in the middle of february in freezing rain for a TAKS pep rally. I don’t get movie days either - I could keep them at home for that.
November 1st, 2009 at 1:14 amBack in the day — I’m 52 — wearing pajamas was unheard of in school.
I, and many of my generation, had terrible anxious dreams about showing up to school undressed, so to speak. So my guess is that administrators there are trying to relieve that anxiety.
Next, they’ll tackle the worse dreams about showing up for tests unprepared.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:05 pmSO THANKFUL to hear somebody else doesn’t give a flying flip about pj’s. I’ve bought them and bought them - even went so far (when there were only 2 of them) of going and putting them on while they were sleeping…I know compulsive, right? but now..my 6 year old sleeps and wears and sleeps in the same clothes until he bathes..every other day or so. he’s happy and we live on a farm - he knows he has to get dressed in town clothes occasionally and wears what he wants otherwise. My 12 year old told me his underwear wasn’t dirty the other day because he’s only worn it for a day…which in boy time is MUCH.LONGER. Cheers.
November 9th, 2009 at 6:31 pm