<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6029748207860454872</id><updated>2011-12-25T20:59:22.460-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Mismatched Sox: Adventures in a 60 Toe Family</title><subtitle type='html'>Why wear socks that match ... far too time consuming ... and rather boring if you ask me ...Go ahead - wear one Halloween sock and one Christmas sock at the same time - I double dog dare YA !</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mismatchedsox.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6029748207860454872/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mismatchedsox.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Debra Higginbotham</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16769290337117529776</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6029748207860454872.post-5262010779874222799</id><published>2011-12-25T20:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-25T20:50:00.786-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Merry Christmas</title><content type='html'>Laundry is behind - again. &amp;nbsp;The floor of my closet looks like a donation center for a homeless shelter. &amp;nbsp;I have 3 boys and none of them have clothes that are actually in their drawers; rather they are organized into labeled baskets that reside by my bed, along the wall. &amp;nbsp;WHY? &amp;nbsp; Because laundry is boring ... and quite frankly, I'd rather play chase in the yard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So today I could not find one single pair of clean socks that match. &amp;nbsp;So I decided to wear one black sock and one white sock. &amp;nbsp;Why not? &amp;nbsp;Kids thought it was cool.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe that will be my new mama thing. &amp;nbsp;I will purposely wear socks - that never match - in an effort to rebel against someone's idea of normal, and be unique in my own twisted way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, I will eventually catch up on the laundry. &amp;nbsp;But by then they will all be in college and bringing their laundry home, right? &amp;nbsp;At which point, I will just smile and still refuse to wear matching socks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3YMWCn3nZ94/Tvf822WO7ZI/AAAAAAAAACc/AAPvj3wiMuo/s1600/MismatchedSocks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3YMWCn3nZ94/Tvf822WO7ZI/AAAAAAAAACc/AAPvj3wiMuo/s1600/MismatchedSocks.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6029748207860454872-5262010779874222799?l=mismatchedsox.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mismatchedsox.blogspot.com/feeds/5262010779874222799/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://mismatchedsox.blogspot.com/2011/12/merry-christmas.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6029748207860454872/posts/default/5262010779874222799'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6029748207860454872/posts/default/5262010779874222799'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mismatchedsox.blogspot.com/2011/12/merry-christmas.html' title='Merry Christmas'/><author><name>Debra Higginbotham</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16769290337117529776</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3YMWCn3nZ94/Tvf822WO7ZI/AAAAAAAAACc/AAPvj3wiMuo/s72-c/MismatchedSocks.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
