My mother thinks that I am a baby still and bought me some footie pajamas for my birthday. I wonder how many other thirteen year olds have boys pajamas with feet attached to them. I never want to hurt her feelings but since she leaves me no choice but to, I told her to send them back. She just looked at me with a puzzled look and asked why.

My father just rolled his eyes and told my mother that teenage boys pajamas pretty much consist of a pair of pajama pants and a t shirt. She said that since I was just a little boy, I had loved wearing footie pajamas to bed and just because I am getting older, should not make me ashamed to be comfortable.

She went on to let me and my father both know that she had discovered a company online that makes the footie pj’s in all adult sizes, so we could actually all wear them and then maybe it would make me feel more comfortable. You should have seen the look on my father’s face when she suggested that he wear a pair of pj’s with feet sewn into them, it was priceless.