One day when our boys were still fairly young, I kidded my Beloved about something as she sorted and matched a basket of clean socks, rolling the matched pairs into little balls to keep them together. The next thing I knew a pair of rolled up socks was flying at me at roughly the speed of sound and hit me squarely between the eyes!
My Beloved had an amazingly accurate throwing arm and she knew how to use it! She had been signed for a Pro Woman’s Softball League right out of high school after being voted the most athletic girl in our school. So, when I say My Beloved could throw like a pro I’m not exaggerating even a little bit!
Luckily for me, a pair of rolled up cotton socks rolled up into a ball has not much greater impact than a cotton ball.
“Two can play that game,” I yelled as I ran over and grabbed a bunch of the sock-balls from her pile then ran behind a couch and lobbed a pair at her. She ducked behind a chair with a handful of her own, and the “Sock War” was on!
By now our young boys were laughing hysterically. They grabbed some sock balls and ducked behind other furniture as the Sock War escalated. Sock balls were flying everywhere and bouncing off of everyone and everything! We were all laughing so hard our eyes began watering.
A cool thing about Sock Wars (besides that no one in our family ever got hurt fighting them) is no one ever runs out of ammunition!
We played until our arms couldn’t throw anymore and laughed so long and hard our jaws ached.
“Sock Wars” became one of our favorite family traditions and we often played it.
The game’s only rule was that you couldn’t throw dirty socks. Considering how smelly the boys and my feet were, I suspect that it was my Beloved who probably insisted on that rule!
Ironically, Sock Wars were among the funnest (I know that spell-check doesn’t consider “funnest” to be a real word, but if it isn’t, it SHOULD be!) and funniest things we’ve ever done as a family and it was FREE other than the cost of an occasional re-washing of a load of socks, of course! (I had to throw that last phrase in there in case my Beloved reads this post!)
With Love,
Russ
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Sounds like fun
It is.
A fun game to teach your grandbabies!!!
I hope their mothers approve. ;-D! I know their dad’s do.
A family that plays together, stays together. 😉
:-D!
Yes sock wars are great but the burning questions , why is there always an odd sock!??
AN odd sock?!?!? You only have one per load? I sometimes have 3 or 4. I think our clothes dryer eats them or something!
Yes they have teeth you know!! http://willowdot21.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/the-mystery-of-odd-sock/
:-D! Thank you for linking to the fun post.
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Fun!…. Reminds me when our children were young.. of our ‘cream pie in the face’ episode!.. Diane
That sounds fun, too–and messy! Have you created a post on it yet? I’d enjoy reading it.
It’s actually included in a post I did way back on laughter .. Here’s the link if you’d like to read it…Diane
oops… here it is http://hometogo232.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/laughter-is-the-best-medicine/
I enjoyed your fun stories in the post, Diane. Thank you for sharing the link.
Fantastic game! I can imagine it being so much fun and eeveryone enjoyed it. We used to have some pillowfights with the sofa cushions and thye are always fun. I shall try and throw the clean sock balls from now on and try and get it in the boy’s drawers….. Practice makes perfect, well better…. and it will be fun even without them.
I hope you enjoy it as much as we did. I look forward to playing it with our grandkids when they get older.
Great post and great game!
Thank you, Ann. We sure enjoyed it.
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What a hoot and a terrific family ‘game’, 😀 😀
We sure enjoyed it. I look forward to continuing the tradition when our grandchildren get a bit older. Thank you for your comment.
Russ
You are welcome.
Sounds like a fantastic game…one my grandson would surely enjoy! 😀
I sense a Sock War looming in your future, Mrs. P! ;-D!
Russ
I’m sure you are right! 😀
Hhhmmmmmm……the next day stuck inside and the grandkids are over….. 😀
I look forward to hearing about it, Colleen.
Russ
Good clean family fun. 😉
Yup! All the above, Willow.
Russ
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