When my boys were born, I believe that some of my brain cells were delivered with them. Or transferred to them. Or they just fell out. Really. Oh, and they took whatever cells take care of memory, too.
I read these wonderful blogs out there and I find myself wondering what happened to me. I used to be intelligent. I could think things through, have coherent thoughts, debate things, have ideas of my own. These days, I can barely make it through a page of instructions without skipping ahead to the end. My concentration – well, lack thereof – is astounding to me.
Time to go back to playing my brain games on my Nintendo instead of reading novels. Instead of blogging. But not instead of reading blogs. 😉
I’d say maybe I should take a course or something, but I’d probably forget to go. College seems like it was SO long ago. I can’t imagine how I would have done it with kids. I always figured the women that have kids and go to school were pretty together and impressive, but now I know it to be true. 😀
So if you happen across any spare brain cells that you’re not needing, ship them on over to me. The ones that control concentration would be great.
Wife. Mom. Cancer Fighter. Friend. Business Owner. I believe life is short, some things just are what they are, and that there are very few problems that laughter won't solve or at least make better. 
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I think it\'s true. In fact a friend of mine spoke to a neurologist neighbor of hers and confirmed that it could take up to two years after the birth of your child for things to return to normal- hormones and brain functioning! So don\'t think you\'re crazy, things aren\'t what they used to be- but it will get better. Don\'t discredit yourself! What you\'re doing right now (being a mom, wife, and business owner) is way tougher than anything we ever did in our former lives. Because before, we got as much sleep as we needed, pampered ourselves when we wanted, and had only a miniscule fraction of the stress we do now! So we can\'t do simple math in our heads anymore, or remember everything we could before. But we can actually do more! I know I can multi-task better than anyone without kids, I can read my kids minds just by the look on their faces (hubby\'s too), I can simultaneously feed the baby, cook dinner, watch the news, play with Legos and work on my computer. I know that it\'s not glamorous, but little by little our kids will grow older and become more and more independent, and only then will we get some semblance of an adult life back. By then we will be missing our little ones and wanting our Backyardigans watching, playing on the swingset days back!
I think it’s true. In fact a friend of mine spoke to a neurologist neighbor of hers and confirmed that it could take up to two years after the birth of your child for things to return to normal- hormones and brain functioning! So don’t think you’re crazy, things aren’t what they used to be- but it will get better.
Don’t discredit yourself! What you’re doing right now (being a mom, wife, and business owner) is way tougher than anything we ever did in our former lives. Because before, we got as much sleep as we needed, pampered ourselves when we wanted, and had only a miniscule fraction of the stress we do now!
So we can’t do simple math in our heads anymore, or remember everything we could before. But we can actually do more! I know I can multi-task better than anyone without kids, I can read my kids minds just by the look on their faces (hubby’s too), I can simultaneously feed the baby, cook dinner, watch the news, play with Legos and work on my computer. I know that it’s not glamorous, but little by little our kids will grow older and become more and more independent, and only then will we get some semblance of an adult life back. By then we will be missing our little ones and wanting our Backyardigans watching, playing on the swingset days back!