Memory Loss

I think I gave away all my memory and thinking skills to my kids through the umbilical cord. Since having children, I no longer have a good short-term memory. I no longer balance my checking account down to the penny. My kids are always asking me if I remember something. Of course, I don't. They often get upset with me when I forget things. But I try to tell them, don't blame me, it is actually their fault for taking it all from me when I was pregnant with each of them. Maybe I should have taken my prenatal vitamins after all!

The four of them have such good memories. Eric could tell you details from a book that he read years ago. I can't even remember details from a movie I watched last week. Erin memorizes every phone number that she hears. I just recently memorized my sister's phone number that I have been calling for years. I still couldn't tell you Eric and Erin's cell phone numbers. Zachary is always recalling memories from a year or two ago. I recently found out that Nathan is no different. We had to change our alarm code on our house after Nathan paid attention and memorized it (probably not a good idea to have a 6-year-old running around the neighborhood knowing the code and not knowing that he shouldn't share it with everyone...he didn't do this, but I could imagine him telling a friend.) Then when I was at Verizon the other day, I had to give the employee my password for the account. I didn't think Nathan was paying attention (because he was acting liking a monkey and not behaving at all). But hours later, without saying a word to me beforehand, Nathan decided to try my password from Verizon on my ipod touch. I have to lock the ipod because the kids will get on it all day long if I don't. Imagine his and the other 3 kids' excitement when he tried my password and it worked. It wasn't an easy pattern to memorize so I was shocked. It was even more shocking that he put it together that I may use the same password for multiple things. Darn it! Now I have to go change all my passwords because all four of my kids know it now.

I just remembered something that Eric often forgets and that is too take out the trash!