Momnesia

I like to think I'm a fairly smart person...at least most of the time I seem to have a decent amount of common sense. It seems that lately though the smallest questions or problems leave me stumped. I started to blame this on my advancing age ( I am almost 32 now!), but I have found a new scapegoat...the kids! These poor kids take the blame for so much already: my lack of a waistline, the messy house, the fact that I haven't showered yet today and almost all my clothes have some kind of food product stuck to them...well add to that Mom's memory vacation.

The funny thing is, I can remember just about any of THEIR information...I can tell you what David's favorite food is today and why it isn't apples (like it was yesterday), all the words to Hannah's latest favorite song, when Hannah cut her first tooth, how long it took for David to sleep through the night. Anything pertaining to their lives is burned on my brain...its my own information that leaves me lost. If you ask for my address, birthday or how to spell my name, you are likely to get the same blank stare and confused look as if you just asked me to tell you the square root of 9034857. If you gave me enough time, and some paper, a pencil, a calculator and the ability to phone a friend, I could probably tell you the answer to both, but shouldn't the first part be a given?

I've decided to embrace this wonderful little side effect of motherhood and instead of chalking it up to yet another area I fall short in, I'm going to look at this way...I keep the most vital info at the front of my brain for quick usage, you never know when someone may ask if David would like an apple or how the third line to to the latest Demi Lovato song goes...That is information I NEED to have at the ready...and if someone can't figure out how to spell my name...they probably aren't someone I need to be wasting time talking to anyway.