...I broke a(nother) glass! Yes, I must admit that I am a little clumsy and I tend to have these kind of accidents quite frequently. How frequently? Well, I started off with 12 small tumblers, and now (after 7 years) I've got ... 3! I know, it's unbelievable. However the one I broke today was of the longer type, of which I still have 5. My dinner set also has lots of pieces missing. I am sure no one will blame me for not offering to help my mother-in-law in the kitchen after Sunday lunch, especially when she takes out her best dinner set!
However I do believe that my real problem is not clumsiness per se, but distraction. I am very, very easily distracted. Many of the shattering accidents happen while I dry the dishes. I lost count of the number of times I am drying something, say a cup, then I get leave the cup wrapped in the cloth to do something, and when I come back to my job, I take the cloth, totally forgetting about the cup wrapped in there and SMASH! Yes, i know what you're thinking: I would be better off using a dishwasher.
My distraction is can be tedious sometimes. Have you ever found yourself in a room, asking: Why am I here? totally forgetting what you wanted from that room? It happens to me all the time. I even open the fridge and stand staring at it for minutes trying to remember what I wanted from there! And speaking about the fridge I once found my wallet in it!
Another thing that drives me nuts, but that I keep doing unconsciously is this. Picture it. I have something in my hand, say a pen. I need to go to another room in the house. I leave the pen somewhere along the way, not knowing where, because I wasn't even aware of leaving it! Then I spend half a decade looking for the pen. And my dear husband still asks me where things are, and is expects to be answered!
Can you even imagine how many times I have to come back home, shortly after leaving to make sure that I turned the gas/ iron/ fan off? Oh wretched me! And most of the times they are off, but the thing is that I don't remember turning them off, because my head is up in the clouds!
I leave you with this. When I was still teaching a boy in my class entered the classroom. I looked at him in awe and asked "Where have you been?" "To the bathroom Miss, you gave me permission to go".
No wonder I forget all about my kids while they are in for a time-out...better then misplace them in the fridge anyway!
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If it makes you feel better, I'm down to three dinner plates. DH and I have started eating off the kids' plastic! When I walk away and leave the pen and somehow it's always the two year old who manages to find it, as our doors and walls can attest!
Have a great evening. ~sara
Ha! This is me! I think having two toddlers and a baby doesn't help!
I know the feeling! I bought plastic plates in preparation for Olivia's arrival. After Izabella was born I broke a lot of plates and most of our nice glasses. I have still managed to break a lot of our nice bowls and plates lately. I know the feeling!!!! :) I always seem to break things when I am just so very tired and then I have a bigger mess to clean up.
What's this? distraction? it seems that I am surrounded by distracted family members and friends..... my dh for a start, then there is my daughter, not to mention my brother and I cannot not mention some dear friends ;)
Dear Sara, Sarah Mae and Ivy: thanks for your sympathetic comments.
As for you dear Dina...I am sorry you have to keep up with all these distracetd persons. Maybe you have a mission to fulfill!!
I tend to have those issues as well. I am constantly asking - where is ??? or what were you doing??? only to be told I was in the corner or I was cleaning up toys just like you told me too!
Organization - that is something I am trying to achieve. Once everything is done,I hope to have achieved it.
I can relate to this sometimes... my mom would say I need to be eating more omega 3 fatty acids, though. Helps brain function! ;)
Sometimes I find myself 'zoned out,' especially when I do the dishes. The kids seem to recognize when I'm not really hearing them, and they have started tapping my elbow to get my attention. (Kind of embarrassing really...)
A lovely Mother's Day to you, Isabel.
Gina
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