PajamaJeans: A Mommy’s New BFF

PajamaJeans!

My friends and I like to regale each other with stories of our personal parenting disasters. Maybe the omnipresent pressure to play the cookie-cutter, Martha Stewart, soccer mom has us hitting the sauce too hard or taking it out on a bag of Pirate Booty. But, we find that the soothing, “Oxytocin-like” release to friends is clearly much healthier.

Yes, it’s fun to look an equally disheveled mommy friend in the eye and say: “Shiiiiiiit! I forgot to bring in 32 organic cupcakes today!” (With no flour, dairy or peanuts in them.)

But my favorite mommy humiliation moments have always been the different stories about getting busted for wearing our pajamas to drop the kids off at school. Because who HASN’T tucked their pajamas into their rain boots, thrown on a ski jacket, and driven the kids to school? Forgetting, of course, that once you get there, you actually have to get out of the car in your pilled-up, hideous, cardinal-red flannel pajamas, and help your kids get their “whirling tornado” science project from the car into the auditorium for the science fair that night―ooops!

So, yesterday, when the mail arrived, I found myself gasping and trembling with shock and awe. I was just about to toss the mail-order pajama catalog into the recycling bin, when the back cover caught my eye. How could it not―for there, highlighted in a box with the word NEW! screaming next to it was a strange phenomenon, could it be? YES!.…..PajamaJeans!

Pajama Jeans? Am I reading this right? Yes… PajamaJeans. “Pajamas you’ll live in. Jeans you’ll sleep in.” They’re “low-rise!” They’re “boot cut!” And, oh my gosh, “no more baggy knees,” claimed the ad.

I raced to the website for more delicious information. “Sexy. Stylish. Soft. Comfortable.” The dark blue PajamaJeans on the super happy women wearing them on the website did look like denim and apparently feel like PJs!

The website’s video has women of every age, race and creed wearing these PajamaJeans walking up the stairs and walking down the stairs. Dozing on a bed… pulling a suitcase… pushing a shopping cart…. and my personal favorite, riding a bike! I can ride a bike in my PajamaJeans!

Part cotton, part spandex. No buttons or zippers. Hallelujah! I can achieve Nirvana in a pair of stretchy and stylish fabric pants.

So there it is, my fellow moms, an answer to some of our problems. One less thing we need to worry about each morning as we roll out of bed and rush to feed kids, brush hair, make lunch, tie shoes, and get to school on time before the second bell.

On a final note, no, I am not wearing PajamaJeans as I write this. But someday, somewhere, you might just find me: smiling, happy, relaxed, walking up the stairs and walking down the stairs, and, yes, riding my bike with the wind in my hair and not a button or zipper in sight in my one and only, my fabulous $39.95 PajamaJeans.