losing it
(I hesitate to write this because I know that when my mom reads it she’ll yell a big “HA!” at her computer. But in my defense, I have never driven past the turn for my house.)
I have a theory. As parents, I think our brains are so trained to be interrupted that we get to the point that we can’t finish a thought. Because, seriously, even when my children aren’t around, I can’t think! It’s amazingly scary. I used to be SO on the ball, and now I get distracted so easily. I read somewhere that once you become a parent that you lose IQ points. I think it’s true.
Please tell me that I’m not the only one out there working with a brain that can’t finish a thought?
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January 31st, 2006 at 9:36 am
I wish I had the excuse of kids! :)
January 31st, 2006 at 10:25 am
huh? I mean, I read the first sentence but then….
January 31st, 2006 at 10:27 am
word
January 31st, 2006 at 10:38 am
Yes, thats why I stand outside yelling at my dogs, “Caleb, get inside. Quit digging up the yard”
January 31st, 2006 at 10:57 am
Honey, it doesn’t ever stop. I’m so A.D.D. now after nearly 15 years that I wonder if I’ll ever be cured! :-))
January 31st, 2006 at 11:16 am
Most of the time I can finish a thought, but then it is rapidly followed by a thought that had nothing to do with the first thought. My kiddo is older though – maybe I’m just getting better?
January 31st, 2006 at 12:25 pm
Yes, there will be “better” years as the kids get older. After that come the pre-senior moments. Around our house we sometimes play charades and password gestures just get the thoughts out. It goes like this,
Mom: Will someone please put, um, round, flat, rhymes with late, you have to wash them after dinner,
Kids: PLATES!
Mom: Will someone please put the plates on the table?
This stage starts a few years after you get over calling the siblings by each other’s names and after you have called them the pet names and the names of your own siblings.
January 31st, 2006 at 3:24 pm
Just when I started to be able to think again, I went and got knocked up. haha
I don’t think they ever stop interrupting your thoughts. But that’s why you love them so much. When they’re not around, they still interrupt cuz you secretly miss ‘em. =)
January 31st, 2006 at 3:28 pm
My sister told me last night that I was pausing so much in my speaking to her that she was going to freak out if I didn’t quit. She said, “It makes me want to bang my head in the wall”
I told her I was thinking. It takes time. Seriously though, I AM getting slower. I can’t even have a conversation anymore?!
February 1st, 2006 at 3:02 pm
I tell anyone who’ll listen that with each kid my brains fell out of my vagina.