Socks, Anyone??

Yesterday I finally tackled the task of matching up all the socks in our house.  We had a laundry basket full of socks that had been dug through for weeks because no one wanted to tackle the job.  After finding all the matched socks I could, I still had this pile of mismatched socks.  I was on a mission now, so I ventured into my kids rooms and looked under beds, behind dressers, dug through gym bags, cleaned out the bottom of closets, and checked all their drawers.  Well I found a few stragglers, but what I really found is that my kids take their freshly folded laundry and shove it in their drawers.  They were a mess, seriously not a thing folded in any drawer.  So guess what they got to do after school, yeah, clean up their clothes I dumped in a pile on their floor.  I think they knew they were caught because there was very little protesting.  So six hours later, everything is washed in our house and I still have this pile of mismatched socks.  Where do they go!!  Maddie and Matt keep telling me they need more socks and blame Riley for taking all the good socks up to school when he was here at Christmas.  We have serious sock issues!!  I thought not having Riley's socks around would make a difference but it hasn't and how sad is it that I spent my entire day yesterday matching socks!  But I have to say I felt great satisfaction seeing all those matched socks folded up and put away, now I just have to figure out what I am going to do with all these leftovers-- and have the fun job start all over again in a few days......