Crazy Sock Day

Yesterday, I was completely surprised and flabbergasted to discover it was apparently "International Crazy Sock Day".  No, this is not a real thing.  My sister, J.J. Schambow, had the idea to ask all of her friends, my sister-in-law, Cathy's friends, my sister-in-law, Carrie's friends, my mom's, dad's, Matt's...basically everyone they could think of...to wear crazy socks in my honor.

Wow.  It was amazing.  To give a bit of an explanation as to why she chose to ask y'all to wear crazy socks: I like crazy socks.

Umm...you want to hear a little more about it?  Okay...I mentioned it on this blog a few months back in my post "Selfie".  AND, for Christmas this year Cathy had the idea that all of us girls would pick our "Favorite Thing" for under $10 to give to one another.  Of course, I chose to give...crazy socks!  I picked a pack of 10 "Bright Dots and Stripes" on Amazon.com and hoped that they would wear them mis-matched...which is what I do!

I am not sure how it progressed from there that my sister organized Crazy Sock Day, all I know is that it was a bonanza of amazingness.  Kyrie was home sick from school and so I was not allowed out of my room or near any of the children (Chemo reduces your ability to fight of infections and everyone wants to keep me healthy, which is so very nice!) - I spent almost the entire day replying to e-mails, making comments to facebook posts, saving pictures to my computer, and answering texts and phone calls.  It truly was crazy!

Thank you J.J. for organizing such a wonderful outpouring of love and support.  It was such a complete surprise and had me laughing, giggling, gawking, or crying all day long.  Thank you to you all for participating and making me feel so very blessed.  I know how blessed I am, but that sure did make me 100% aware of it in a moment-to-moment basis.  Very cool.

Here are a few of my favorites:

A friend of Dan Schambow's, Matt Juzenas, took this picture.  Love it!

A child of Teresa Favero made this picture.  So adorable!

When this one came in, I challenged people to beat it.  I don't think they knew that, but I was surprised to find that by the end of the day a few contenders had come in:

Pat Meyer organized these guys to actually make the shirts, put on the socks, and then brave the 1-degree weather to take the picture!

Matt's friend, David Rechlicz's wife, Kyle, is the Head Coach of the UW-Milwaukee Women's Basketball team and she got them together to take these pictures!  How cool!

Go Lady Panthers!

I saved all of the photos of your socks that came in and have decided that what we need is a montage. Warning: this is just a video of socks.  Socks, socks, and more socks.  There are some colorful socks. Some socks with stripes.  Some socks with polka dots or clever sayings.  There are some people acting funny wearing socks, and some dogs with socks on as well.  There are even some truly adorable chunky baby thighs leading down to baby socks.  But, when it comes down to it, it's a lot of socks.  An amazing amount of socks (I had 147 pictures in all!), but for the most part, all socks.  Don't say I didn't warn you.