KIDS, LINGERIE & GOOD EXPLANATIONS

My people, see wetin come happen just now, now.

I was folding up a large pile of clean laundry. Per usual, all the kids help out by putting certain clothing items away. TK knows to put all the kids socks in the sock drawer in my bedside table (can't leave socks in their room or they will disappear). Bomboy's job is to take his daddy's socks and other things to his dad's bedside drawer (its great having his socks so close by, sha. In the middle of the night Husband doesn't have to go far to get my cold feet some socks =)).

TE's job is to help out with any other laundry needs and that usually includes putting away her panties and TK's underpants, making sure the boys don't run off with underwear on their head, which has happened far too many times to count, and generally, keeping us all organized. She is very good at cracking the whip, loL!

Well, today, she definitely was in form. She was helping me look in her dad's sock drawer for a pair of kid's socks, which I thought TK had mistakenly placed there when all of a sudden...

TE: "Hmmm... mom, what is this?"
Me: (not looking because I was folding) "Don't know dear, bring it, let me see."

Next thing, I was confronted with *ahem* some lingerie, as in um, uh, let's just call it fancy underwear. lol!

My brain goes into overdrive. I am calm on the exterior but inside I am thinking hard about how to provide her with a decent answer that won't elicit a slew of further interrogatory questions.

Me: "uh...it's just my underwear, dear."
TE: "Oh. But why was it in daddy's drawer, mommy?"
Me: (Hiding the evidence under a heap of clothes) "Um, I don't know. Maybe I put it there by mistake when putting away the clothes."
TE: "Okay. 'Cos daddy doesn't need to wear your panties, right, mommy?"

At this point, I am dying inside!

Me: "No darling, daddy doesn't wear my underwear."
TE: "Yeah. It's too small anyway. Mommy?"
Me: "Yes, darling?"
TE: "Did you wear that panty when you were little? It's really tiny, don't you think?"
Me: "Yes, dear. Here, take these things and go put them where they belong."
TE: "Okay. But, Mommy, are they torn?"
Me: (With a serious Nigerian accent) "My friend, didn't I tell you to go put those things away?"

hahahahaha.

I had to give the babe some work to do in order to get her off my case. lol! It was too funny. Damn those crotchless panties panties, lol! I told that man to hide them because his children enjoy going through my drawers and thought they wouldn't find it amongst Husband's things in a million years! So much for that, huh? Lesson of the day, ladies and gentlemen, hide your lingerie very well when you have kids in your house and have a really good explanation for what they are. lol!

Just had to share this with my "computer friends".