socks

Note to wife:

When the child starts crying at 4 AM because both of his socks have slipped off of his feet and are stuck under his covers and he HATES sleeping without socks, don't take the logical route and try to convince him that his socks don't really matter and that he should go back to sleep and that you will find the socks in the morning. Instead, secretly take a pair out of his sock drawer (right under his bed), pretend to fish them out from under the covers, say "here they are!" and put them on his feet so that he can go back to sleep. HE DIDN'T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.

But for God's sake, please, don't get into a discussion at this hour, because even if you don't really wake up (which, we know, is when you have your best logical discussions), the rest of the household does. Not only does the pregnant mama not need to be woken up to handle a sock situation, but the likelihood that she is not going to fall back asleep for a couple of hours is great, and that makes for a GREAT day.