Our Jeans Are Holy
For those of you who have boys, you may feel my pain in regard to this. I have sent Ethan to school twice this week in jeans that had no holes. Twice this week he has returned home with a new hole in the knee! How is that possible? He must spend all day crawling around on his knees. (Why did we bother teaching him to walk?) That is the only reasonable explanation. Either that or some kid is slicing them with a knife out on the playground at recess. Ethan attends a Catholic school and when I asked him today what happened to his jeans he replied, “I don’t know Mom. God must have done it.” Of course! Why didn’t I think of that? His jeans are holy (in more than one way).
This has been happening all winter, so it’s not like it all of a sudden started this week. He’s a growing boy and it can be hard to keep him in clothes that fit. I’ve bought some on Ebay for really cheap and a few pairs from Wal-Mart & Target. They all seem the same. The jeans from second hand stores (that are used) hold up as well as pairs from The Children’s Place. Quality doesn’t seem to matter. I’m a clearance sale, outlet store, buy a season ahead on sale with a coupon kind of shopper. So sometimes he wears Polo and sometimes he wears Faded Glory. It all depends on what’s on sale. Bet you didn’t know that Ebay and Wal-Mart sell holy jeans? We could be starting a whole new fashion fad. Like in middle school when I used to peg roll my jeans. You know so they would look cool and remind me that a flood could very well happen at anytime.
My name is Emily. I’m 30 years old. I have often been told that I ask a lot of questions, but I think I have more to say than ask.
I never get holes in my jeans, but I can’t seem to own a pair of jeans that doesn’t get ripped and torn at the bottom.
Oh holy crap.. Boys are so rough on clothes. Go to Wal-Mart, in the fabric department you’ll find these amazing blue jean iron on patches. (or maybe you won’t, so just look lost and block the fabric cutting table until the Wal-Mart people direct you to the patches)
Turn the jeans inside out, iron the patches onto the knees of the inside of the jeans and Presto, no holes!!
I only know about this because my “Precious Angelic Boys” probably went through about a million pairs of good school jeans before somebody told me about the secret society of the knee patch..
And anyway, I hear that the patches used to be already ironed on to the inside of the new jeans many many years ago, but the the evil jeans empire realized that they could sell more jeans if the knees wore out faster, so they took the patches out.. Darn them all!
OK, I need to go find my “mother’s little helpers” and chill now!
We have yet to be blessed with the holy jeans. I hear lots of sighs of exasperation in my future;>
By the way, I’ve tagged you for a meme sort of thing, if you’re interested.
i love this picture!
it’s amazing to me that all of emily’s clothing looks like it has never been worn…but josh’s stuff is a total holy mess!
We have bins full of old holy jeans. I keep thinking that they should be made into a quilt or something. I rarely get holes in the knees of my jeans, but I rip out the butts all the time. You’d think I was sitting on sandpaper.
Oh my — Owen’s jeans are beginning to get holy as well, causing me to now have to determine whether they are considered “play” jeans or “nice” jeans.
Regarding your pin tuck comment from junior high — we did that too (but I’m just a few years older than you) — was in junior high in the eary/mid 1980s, and we (my husband and I) call that particular fashion gem the “tuck and roll.” Imagine our delight when, years later, as parents, we became familiar with the film A Bug’s Life, and discovered that the two acrobatic roly-poly bugs (who didn’t speak English) were named “Tuck” and “Roll”! Hee!