Monday, June 16, 2008
Getting up in the morning is hard. Can you blame me? I don't know what I look forward to the least--the mountain of laundry I tackle on a daily basis or the three crying babies that permanently attach themselves to my legs the moment they see me. Maybe it's cleaning the toilets or trying to figure out what's for dinner or perhaps it's fighting with the big kids to do their chores or watching the kids spill grape juice all over my newly mopped floor. Whatever it is, there's really not a lot of incentive for me to get up in the mornings. So when I wake up I do one of two things. Roll over and try to go back to sleep. Or, when that doesn't work (which is almost always), I start going through the day and all the things I need to get done. Very reluctantly I scroll through the list--switch the laundry, load the dishwasher, wake the kids up, and on and on. And then almost always I have a thought like, don't forget it's Denver's ice cream social today and you're in charge of bringing 2-1/2 gallons of ice cream up to the school by ten and at that point, when I realize I forgot to pick up the ice cream the night before, I go from zero to sixty in three seconds flat and BOOM! I'm out of bed and on my way.
It rarely fails to get me going. But of course, the system has it's flaws, one of which revealed itself last week when I bolted out of bed and headed for the bathroom. By the time I got there I had forgotten what my "oh shoot" moment was and spent the rest of the morning trying to remember what was so important. I know memory loss is inevitible, but aren't I a little young to be forgetting important things so easily? And what am I going to do when I don't remember the important things at all?
posted by Shana # 4:45 PM 
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