BUSY MOM SYNDROME

I thought this was really funny and very true.  Mark will come home 
some days and ask me what I have done and this has been all too many 
times my thoughts.   But I just tell him....I really don't know.


This is how it manifests:      

I decide to water my lawn.

As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and
decide my car needs washing.

As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail
on the porch table that I brought up from the mail box earlier.

I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.

I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail
in the garbage canunder the table, and notice that the
can is full.

So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and
take out the garbage first.

But then I think, since I'm going to be near the
mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as
well pay the bills first.

I take my check book off the table, and see that
there is only one check left.

My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go
inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Coke that
I had been drinking.

I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to
push the Coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over.

I see that the Coke is getting warm, and I decide I should
put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.

As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke a vase of
flowers on the counter catches my eye - they need to be watered.

I set the Coke down on the counter, and I discover my
reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning.

I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going
to water the flowers.

I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container
with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote.

Someone left it on the kitchen table.

I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I will be looking
for the remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen
table, so I decide to put it back in the living room where it belongs,
but first I'll water the flowers.

I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills
on the floor.



So, I set the remote back down on the table, get some towels
and wipe up the spill.

Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.



At the end of the day -

the lawn isn't watered, the car isn't washed, the bills
aren't paid, there is a warm can of Coke sitting on
the counter, the flowers don't have enough water, there
is still only one check in my check book, I can't find
the remote, I can't find my glasses, I don't remember
what I did with the car keys, and my neighbor called to
tell me he turned off the hose that was flooding the driveway. 
Then when I try to figure out why nothing got done today,
I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day long,
and I'm really tired. I realize this is a serious problem,
and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check
my e-mail.

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