Momnesia

Before I had babies I had the occassional moment where I walked into a room and found myself wondering why I was there! Then I got pregnant with Serenity and it was all down hill from there!

I would get phone calls at work wondering where I was and I would not remember that I had said I would be 'right there.' So soon I started writing everything on Post It's and sticking them on my computer monitor. Well that only worked so long before I had a Post It beard on my computer. So, I put one big Post It on my computer that said, "see notebook." Problem solved, or so I thought!

When Serenity was born I got full blown Momnesia! Mine manifested itself in an inability to name simple objects. This is an actual conversation between me and Snuffy:

Me: "Snuffy can you get the ....."

Snuffy: "The what?"

Me: "The thing!"

Snuffy: "What thing?"

Me: "The thing, the thing with the wheels, you know....the thing with the wheels that you put the baby in over there (pointing to said object)"

Snuffy: "You mean the stroller?"

Me: "OMG YES!!! Thank you!"

Seriously, he totally laughed at me! The laughs didn't end there however! "They" say that with each successive pregnancy your momnesia gets worse and I've had 3 pregancies in 4 1/2 years! It's amazing I can talk at all! Apparently having girls also makes it worse - batting 1000 here! I have now devolved into a syndrome I lovingly call C.R.S. (aka Can't Remember S_ _ t!!!). Seriously, I can't! Here's a list of just some of the things I have forgotten:

1. Phone calls - if I don't write down the message immediately it's gone forever! Sorry Snuffy!

2. Who I am calling and when they answer, what the heck I wanted to talk to them about!
3. That I am cooking!
4. Laundry in the washing machine for 3 days
5. Directions to someone's house
6. Birthdays
7. What the heck I am talking about in the middle of a sentence. I actually have to stop and ask, "what the heck was I saying?"
8. Where I parked my van
9. The names of my children (I call them by their sister's name or some weird hybrid of all their names)
10. What was going to be #10 on this list! LOL

Now I live and die by my calendar. If it's not written down, I don't do it because I can't remember that I had to in the first place! I asked my mom if she had this problem and when it went away for her and she laughed and said, "Oh, it never goes away, it just evolves into early onset 'Old Timer's'. Great, juuuuust Great!!! What have you forgotten? (and later been reminded of)

Picture of the day

Imagine our surprise when we walked out the front door to this face LOL! Snuffy put in a newspaper box and gave it a funny face, just for us to see! What a great Daddy!