Little Socks

(Little Girls - sung by Miss. Hannigan in Annie)

Little girls

Little girls

Everywhere I turn I can see them

Little girls

Little girls

Night and day

I eat, sleep and breathe them

I'm an ordinary woman

With feelings

I'd like a man to nibble on my ear

But I'll admit

No man has bit

So how come I'm the mother of the year?

Little cheeks

Little teeth

Everything around me is little

If I wring

Little necks

Surely I will get an acquittal

Some women are dripping with diamonds

Some women are dripping with pearls

Lucky me! Lucky me!

Look at what I'm dripping with

Little girls

How I hate

Little shoes

Little socks

And each little bloomer

I'd have cracked

Years ago

If it weren't for my

Sense of humor

Some day

I'll step on their freckles

Some night

I'll straighten their curls

Send a flood

Send the flu

Anything that You can do

To little girls

(reprise)

Some day I'll land in the nut house

With all the nuts and the squirrels

There I'll stay

Tucked away

Until the prohibition of

Little girls.

I am the mother of two beautiful and only moderately messy little girls.  However, I still spend the majority of my days (and nights!) picking up after them.  Of course we try to get them to clean up after themselves, but this usually feels like two steps forward and three steps back.

One of the items that bothers me the most lately are little socks.  I find them everywhere, all over my house.  On the floor, by the door, on the seat, in the couch, in my purse, behind their beds and under furniture (to name a few).

While picking up the socks the song I posted above (and below) often runs through my head.  I was a huge fan of Annie growing up so I know all the songs by heart.  

Although I don't want my little girls to be stepped on, prohibited or tucked away I do look forward to the spring when we switch to sock-less sandals!