I Wake Up About a Second Before It Starts: Mom Tee

You are awake before the monitor makes a noise. Before the cry, before the creak of the door, before small feet hit the floor. Some part of you never went fully offline, it has been on duty for two years, and it is still on duty long after the child started sleeping through.

A stranger reads the supernatural. A premonition, somebody who senses earthquakes, a line lifted out of a thriller. It is the most ominous sentence in the parents set and it is about a toddler waking up.

Set as an overnight log label with NO ALARM SET underneath, in a calm serif at a small size. The calmer the setting, the more unsettling it reads to somebody without the context, and there is no illustration because any object at all would explain it.

What it is

• Unisex softstyle tee, 4.5 oz/yd² (153 g/m²)
• 100% ring-spun cotton in the solid colors. Sport Grey is a 90% cotton, 10% polyester blend, and Dark Heather is 65% polyester, 35% cotton
• Double stitched neckline and sleeves, side seamed, tear away label
• Sizes S through 3XL
• Fourteen colors. Seven light ones printed in near black ink, seven dark ones printed in cream

Where it comes from

Custom printed in the USA. Every shirt is printed here, one at a time, on a soft cotton blank woven overseas.

Nothing is printed until you order it, so nothing sits in a warehouse and nothing gets thrown away.

Getting it to you

Free US shipping on orders $45 and up. Under that it is a flat $8.00. We make it after you order it, which takes 2 to 5 business days, and it then takes 3 to 4 business days to reach you from a US facility. Most orders arrive in 5 to 9 business days. You get a tracking number by email as soon as the label is created.

Care

Machine wash cold, inside out, gentle cycle. Tumble dry low or hang dry. Do not iron the print.

The Natural colorway

Natural has small dark speckles through the fabric. That is the undyed cotton showing, and it is expected rather than a fault.