Conversation

"Nathalie you need to shower, you kind of smell bad and tomorrow is thanksgiving."

"Oh man, I am clean mama!"

"No you're not. Come on." I walk in to start the shower and she undresses. I know (as I do laundry sometimes) that she only has one pair of solid white panties. Now, I remember a morning, and not this one or yesterday her wearing these, I am sure of this.

"Nathalie," who has wet her bed until a few weeks ago and thus always took off panties at night, "Do you change your panties every day?" Blank stare from her and then,

"Mama, I havent wet the bed. I had one accident at night 4 nights ago."

"What... but you... I mean you really dont... did you not know... I mean, Nathalie! You are supposed to change them each day even if you dont shower every day. You didnt shower night before last?" They shower every other in winter.

"No because I fell asleep remember but I put these clean panties on 4 nights ago when I woke up in my bed wet. "

Oh my. I am flailing about in the sea of single parenthood! Help!