National Underwear Day Encourages Mom to Reminsence

Deep, emotional sentiment isn’t exactly what one is usually looking for when re-stocking your children’s underwear supply. But it is what I found during a recent shopping trip that included sorting through the three-packs of boy’s cotton briefs and girl’s panties at the local big box super store. I realized just how much they have grown up in the last couple of months. And also just how much I’d taken it for granted. Oh sure, there had been the hints that I chose to ignore. Such as how handsome my 14 year old looked wearing that tie and business-man like shoes for his eighth grade graduation. There was the manner in which my 10-year old daughter kept staring at herself in the mirror. Oh and yes, let’s not forget the sometimes annoying, but always adorable, cries from my almost two-year-old informing me that I am his Mommy. It should have been enough to jolt me into sentimental quicksand.