Magic Stripe Horrors

So I am knitting away on my sock, right? WTF? The yarn is cut... ok, grudgingly tie a frikkin' knot. OMG!!! It's cut again!?!?! Ok... something is wrong here, let's unravel this sucker a little bit... yeah, my kids have definitely gotten ahold of it. I had to tie it like 5x. I didn't wanna skip the cut parts because then the stripes would have been screwed up... *sigh* The scissors were locked away too, must have happened a long time ago.