Space Cadet Mom
With everything I've had on my mind these last few weeks, I've been a bit scatterbrained lately.
Okay, that may be a bit of an understatement. To tell the truth, I've been a complete space cadet these past few weeks.
Mostly I've been overlooking the small things. I forgot to take the dog to the groomers last week. I keep forgetting to make certain phone calls.
But last weekend when my husband met me at the YMCA for my daughter's last basketball game, I graduated to a space lieutenant when he pointed out to me that I had parked my car the wrong way on a one way street.
Well, my normal spot was full. I saw an empty spot and I went for it. Traffic laws be darned.
My promotion to space captain may be in the works, however. At my daughter's violin lesson on Friday, I noticed I was wearing two different shoes.
And it wasn't like they were slightly different shoes that were easily confused. Oh, no. They weren't even the same color. And I had been wearing them all afternoon!
My daughter was quite embarrassed. She practically rolled her eyes and said, "And you always say I'm unorganized!"
I don't know when I went from being the daughter who rolled her eyes at her mother to the mother who has eyes rolled at her, but it has happened.
Okay, that may be a bit of an understatement. To tell the truth, I've been a complete space cadet these past few weeks.
Mostly I've been overlooking the small things. I forgot to take the dog to the groomers last week. I keep forgetting to make certain phone calls.
But last weekend when my husband met me at the YMCA for my daughter's last basketball game, I graduated to a space lieutenant when he pointed out to me that I had parked my car the wrong way on a one way street.
Well, my normal spot was full. I saw an empty spot and I went for it. Traffic laws be darned.
My promotion to space captain may be in the works, however. At my daughter's violin lesson on Friday, I noticed I was wearing two different shoes.
And it wasn't like they were slightly different shoes that were easily confused. Oh, no. They weren't even the same color. And I had been wearing them all afternoon!
My daughter was quite embarrassed. She practically rolled her eyes and said, "And you always say I'm unorganized!"
I don't know when I went from being the daughter who rolled her eyes at her mother to the mother who has eyes rolled at her, but it has happened.
Labels: "Mom-of-the-Year", family, kids
posted by Major Mom at 4:54 PM
Karen is a military wife and stay-at-home mother to a seven-year-old daughter and a five-year-old son. A Boston native who’s lived in the Shreveport-Bossier area for eight years, she spends most of her time volunteering at her kids’ school, supporting her husband, playing with her friends and watching her hair turn gray. In between, she writes about her life here on her blog.
1 Comments:
You sound like a kindred spirit! The other day, I thought, hmm, I'm ready for my first cup of coffee and got a cup out of the cabinet. I went over to the coffeepot to find a full cup of coffee already there, with MILK! And recently, I was making turkey meatloaf and couldn't find the ketchup anywhere. I searched the whole kitchen and finally decided to substitute salsa. So I made the meatloaf, put it in the oven and went to clean up my ingredients. There was the ketchup, sitting on the counter with the soy sauce and salsa I had just used. I had already gotten it out and completely forgot all about it!
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