Socks from Santa- Thoughts About the Holidays

The Nor'easter charged up the East Coast earlier this week and added insult to injury as North Jersey and NYC were blanketed with snow. Even my sister in Cape Cod had to rely on her generator to keep the lights on during those high winds. The irony of this is that I am teaching a new course in emergency management this semester! What timing! Those affected by the storms are in the process of cleaning up and salvaging what they can... Sophia was basically, as she likes to call it... "homeless" for 10 days while she crashed with friends in Harlem. Several of my Ripkanista friends have been without power for 12 days and trying to get back to some semblance of "normal." New York is an amazing place... the subways are running again! I never would have imagined that this 100+ year-old subway system could withstand the flooding. So now it occurred to me that we have just one weekend before Thanksgiving... which means a lot of getting ready to do. To put myself in the mood Santa began her socks-and-underwear shopping today!

My son said that he told his friends he has never bought socks or underwear ever in his life because Santa brings them every year! My girls are very picky about socks, and I have to have one of them with me to pick them out, or they write a detailed description about what to get and where to get it. In many ways the boys are so much easier! The socks are all stowed in the back of my closet... now let's hope that on Christmas Eve I will remember where I've put them.

Smartwool Socks- Amazing Discovery!!!

I thought I had found the secret to life- and that was men's socks, but now I have found an even more amazing discovery--- Smartwool socks!!! They are wool and while you might think they would be itchy, they are not. They are amazingly warm and keep my cold feet warm and toasty! I can say they have been tested by my youngest daughter who recently went skiing in Steamboat, CO.

Of course, finding Smartwool socks was not my original discovery-- I have my mountain climbing, philosopher daughter to thank for introducing us all to Smartwool socks. Thanks sweetie for educating your family to the finer points of winter footwear :).

If you have cold feet try these-- they are really "warmlicious!!!"

Uncovering the Secrets of Life

The weather's turned cold and my boots have come out of the closet. One of the challenges wearing boots is wearing socks that don't fall down in the boot-- you know, that wrinkled feeling as you realize that your socks are falling down and sinking to the bottom of your boot! Or-- when taking off your boots your socks stay in the boot.

I've solved the problem and have labelled it one of the secrets of life-- MEN'S SOCKS!

When I wear men's dress socks in my tall boots, the socks stay on my feet and legs and don't fall down into the boot.

For really snowy days I wear a sturdier boot with which I wear men's construction boot socks-- they are warm and have a great foot cushion!

Who knew men had it so good?