The only time that I have worn footie pajamas, is when I was in college. There were a few of us that were from the south and not used to the cold winters of the north. My parents had warned me that it was going to be cold and snowy in Michigan but I had always thought that snow was pretty. Little did I know that when it is negative twenty degrees, that snow does not look pretty anymore.

My mother sent me a care package in December, right after the first snow hit and when I opened it, I found a pair of footie pajamas for me and my roommate who was also from the south. My mother’s note said that she had to do some serious online searching to find the pj’s for us and actually there are a set of toddlers pajamas out there that match ours. I guess that we were wearing what was part of a set for a family to get footed pajamas for everyone including toddler pajamas with feet in them with little white snowman all over.

Every year after that, which was my freshman year, my mother would go back to the same website and pick out my roommate and I’s footie pajamas, for the next winter.