Mind, the mommy

Have you been forgetting peoples names you've known your whole life, including you own? Are you constantly searching for things? If you have been suffering from serious brain malfunctions you may have what we, in the business, call Mommy Brain. You may see a woman at the grocery store staring at something, let's say a turnip, and you think maybe she's thinking about buying that turnip....Well, maybe she WAS thinking that....fifteen minutes ago! Now she's just trying to figure out what it's called! It's seems we are replacing our brain space that once was filled with information that made us interesting with theme tunes to popular cartoons, personal hygiene techniques and how to buckle and snap anything. Oh and don't forget the superior ability to open jars and not go to the bathroom for extraordinarily long periods of time. Totally worth it though. Totally worth it. We have fine tuned our ability to find things. A natural response to being able to find our own children that are somewhere around here... Other than children, here is a list of things that are always missing: 1. Phone. In this day and age you need it all the time and that is why it is guaranteed to be missing at least half of the time. 2. Keys. You gotta get the £&@/ out of house. The van is the one place the kids are contained, secure and you don't feel the need to entertain them because Mary Poppins is on a loop and she is a way better person than you are. Fact. 3. Sunglasses. There's usually a designated spot in the car for these but they can never seem to stay there. Infuriating. 4. Drinks. Mine, theirs, yours. The second it's been made it's lost. Are you feeling the need for another right now? 5. Brush. You have twenty. They are obviously getting stolen. It only makes sense to accuse people when you have no other explanation. 6. A particular DVD. Kids are demanding and always want the one thing you can't find and this applies to DVD's especially. You try so hard to keep the right ones in the right cases but inevitably they all ended up in the wrong cases so you will have to go through all of them. 7. Hair bands. You think you keep losing them in your sleep. You will check under your bed later (aka next year). 8. Scotch tape. You have no idea why this commodity is always out of supply and in demand. But it fixes so many things and keeps the kids busy for hours so you will try to remember to get more at the grocery store, if you can remember the name for it. 9. Favourite toy/blanket. Their favourites keep changing and it is your job to keep track even though you've been ten places today and so has their lovie dovie pookie pants. 10. Your mind. You have any number of kids that enjoy hiding your shhhh...stuff. Enough said.

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