23 2 / 2012
Mommy Brain or Just Not the Brightest Bulb?
Written by GWEN
Every once and a while I say or do something stupid. Everyone does… right? We can’t all be brilliant all the time. I like to blame it on mommy brain—too much multi-tasking going on. Although, truth be told, I have made the occasional un-helpful comment pre-Izzy. I only bring this up now, because I did a doozy the other day and while my Mister was less than amused, I was thrown into a fit of giggles. Which reminded me of giggles past…
EXAMPLE BLUNDER 1: Pre-Baby
It’s 2005. My Mister and I have been living in London for just a few months in our newly purchased Notting Hill flat. Adam wakes up on a Monday morning to get ready for work only to find that the hot water isn’t working. Swearing ensues followed by a lot of stomping around the flat. I don’t really have a clue on how I can help, but am willing to try, so shout from the bedroom,
“Well, do you want me to call BT?”
Adam walks back into the bedroom, glares at me and says, “You could, but I don’t think the phone company will be much help on this matter.”
I mean JEEZ! I had seen a bunch of BT bills come in. It sounds like it could be the water company. I’m an AMERICAN for god’s sake!
EXAMPLE BLUNDER 2: Post-Baby
A bit of background info on this last incident. For the last several weeks our dishwasher hasn’t seemed to work very well. Every time we unload it, half the dishes are still dirty. We haven’t investigated much, just figured we were overloading. That is until, last Friday evening when Adam pulled out a still wrapped dishwasher detergent pellet and held it in front of me.
“What happened here? You didn’t unwrap this?”
“Hmmm. I guess I forgot. I was in the middle of giving Izzy dinner. Some of them you don’t have to unwrap you know.”
“Yeah, but these you do.”
“Oops.”
“This is also not actual detergent. It’s just to get rid of limescale.”
“Oh. I guess that explains why the dishes haven’t gotten very clean.”
“Yup. That and the fact that these are for the washing machine. Not the dishwasher.”
Mystery solved. You’re welcome.
This is an example of when I (with ERICA) had the giggles big time. We were at dinner. Someone walked in on me in the bathroom. I was drunk. Erica was drunker. The next week I found out I was prego. Last hurray? Yes. Last stupid mistake? Not so much!
