The other day, an old friend stopped by for a bit. She has two kids, aged 7 and 10. I only had Jack and Will with me at the time, the girls were at school. In the hour and a half she was here, I got up and down no fewer than 946 times. Well, I may be exaggerating, but it was probably at least 15 times. I never think about how much up and down and running back and forth I do until I have someone with me that doesn't have to do it.
Since then, I've been doing a little observation and I realized that I don't have any conversation between the hours of 7AM and 8PM that aren't interrupted. I can barely get one complete sentence out, forget a whole conversation. After some unscientific observation, I've realized that none of my friends do either. The average conversation sounds like this:
Me: "Oh, hey I saw something at Kohl's that I... Put that down!"
Friend: "I like Kohl's but I ususally end up at... don't hit him!"
Me: "I was talking to... yes you can have a snack"
Friend: "What was I saying?"
It's shocking that any of us know anything about each other at all. It's even more amazing that, though I seem to never finish a sentence, I feel like I talk all day. Jeff often asks if I'm mad at him cause I don't want to talk after the kids go to bed, but the truth is, I just flat out don't have anything left to say.
Recently some helpful person told me that women lose up to 10% of their brain cells during pregnancy. This means that I've lost 40% of my brain in the last five years. I have hope that it will come back, but I'm not optimistic. Just to prove my point, I opened this blog to write about something and then forgot what it was. So I wrote about forgetting things instead.
Go figure.
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