Yesterday was gray and snowy. I was sitting warm and cozy at my computer, getting some writing done when the phone rang.<\/p>\n
Me: Hello? I get to school shortly before the bell and I go to the boy’s 4th grade classroom.<\/p>\n Teacher: Ah, Doodles, here are some socks for you! Freakin’ fragile child. Where do these kids come from?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday was gray and snowy. I was sitting warm and cozy at my computer, getting some writing done when the phone rang. Me: Hello? Voice: Hi. My socks got really wet at recess. I need you to bring me new socks. Me: First things first. Which child of mine is this? Voice: Doodles. Me: Okay, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,43],"class_list":["post-2191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-doodles","tag-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nVoice: Hi. My socks got really wet at recess. I need you to bring me new socks.
\nMe: First things first. Which child of mine is this?
\nVoice: Doodles.
\nMe: Okay, Doodles. Now, what?
\nThe boy: At recess my socks got soaking wet. I need you to bring me new socks.
\nMe: Um, no.
\nThe boy: My feet are really wet! I can’t wear these socks!
\nMe: It’s one o’clock. School gets out in an hour and fifteen minutes. You’ll be fine.
\nThe boy: They are really<\/em> wet.
\nMe: I’m not walking over to school an hour before it’s over to bring you socks. It’s snowing out!
\nThe boy, clearly exasperated: I know! That’s why how my socks got wet!
\nMe: Take off your socks and go sockless for the next hour.
\nThe boy: My feet will be cold!
\nMe: I’m a mean mommy. I’ll come by before the bell rings to bring you socks so you don’t have to go home with cold wet socks.
\nThe boy: Fine!<\/p>\n
\nMe: Did you really let him call me to bring him socks an hour before school gets out?
\nTeacher, laughing: I did! You know, he never complains, so when he did, I figured I’d let him call.
\nMe: You’re crazy! Boy, tell your teacher what the family motto is!
\nThe boy: Suck it up.
\nTeacher laughs.
\nMe: Next time the boy has an issue like this, remind him of the family motto!<\/p>\n