Absent Minded Mom Award
If there was such an award, I’d be a winner.
I had told my daughter we were going to a friend’s birthday party yesterday. I had a reminder on the refrigerator. I even spoke to the mother of the girl last week and said we would be there. We chatted a bit how there was going to be pizza at the party and I heard the time 6 pm. All week I had it in my mind that the party was from 6-8 pm, but did I ever check the invitation. Noooo!
I should have double checked the invitation. 5:15 pm, I was all ready to head out the door to drop off Joey at music at 5:30 and then head over to the party. I was proud of myself ’cause I was going to be early. I finally grabbed the invitation and gasped. 4- 6pm!
We were already over an hour late, and I still had to drop Joey off. I peeled out of the driveway, forgetting my cell phone and had to go back to get it. We hit red lights most of the way, and finally arrived at the party after the fun (imagine a room full of Jupiter jumps!) was over. Everyone was in the party room waiting for pizza and cake. We made a grand entrance!
I apologized and explained my absent mindedness, and really felt bad. You see before kids I was typically 15 minutes early to every appointment. Even after two kids I was still 15 minutes early. Then when I had my third, something drastically changed. I was typically on time and even (gasp) late on occassion.
Now with four little lives to manage, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten the time wrong to events, or even showed up on the wrong day! I have calendars all over the place, though not always accurate, and I rarely check them. I used to remember everything, and thought about those hand held computer calendars before, but I don’t know if I’d use them. I did pretty well with my on line calendar that had pop up reminders, but somehow the time is off now and they pop up too late. I’ve decided to try my google calendar, to see if that will help, but I haven’t figured out the reminder thing yet!
SIGH! Am I destined to be an absent minded mom or is there any hope of being the organized on time mom I used to be?
