Pregnancy Brain

With each pregnancy my brain seems to dwindle more and more. I'm more forgetful, more scatter-brained and just can't really seem to get it together at times. Hopefully, I can blame this on pregnancy! I mentioned this to Samuel the other day, something along the lines of 'having to write something down so I wouldn't forget because I think Butterfly Kitty was using my brain at the time' and he remembered. SO, several days later when I forgot something he said, "Mama, when you have another baby you won't have any brain left because we will have taken all of it." I'm beginning to think it's the truth.

Here is the craziest thing so far - Sunday night I looked out at the car and noticed the light was on in the Honda and it had been on all day (I actually didn't leave it on). I walked out to see if the car would crank and it barely cranked after some cajoling. I decided to leave it running for a while so that it would recharge the battery. Well, the next morning I was looking for my keys to crank the car and warm it up before heading to jury duty. I could not find my keys - anywhere. And then it hit me...the keys were still in the car and the car was still on. Yep, 8 hours later the car was still on in the driveway with the car nice and warm for my morning commute to jury duty. I couldn't believe it was still running.

Well, I turned the car off and went back inside for 20 minutes to finish getting dressed and then realized I probably wouldn't get it cranked again because there was no gas left. I knocked the car into neutral and rolled it into the street to try and shake the gas around. It cranked and we headed for the nearest gas station. While I was pumping the 11.8 gallons into my 12 gallon tank the gas started spewing from the car, Samuel started laughing from inside the car and I just had to laugh at my crazy morning while I ventured inside to clean the gas off of me. I dropped Samuel off at school safe and sound and headed to jury duty where I left my coffee at the security scanner and headed into the Men's bathroom (I caught myself before embarrassing myself too much). Yippee for Monday's with a pregnancy brain.

PS - I have seemed to be able to do my job at the hospital without much problem and have seemed to care for my children without permanent harm. I even served on a jury that Monday morning and came to the same conclusion as the other jurors - so I haven't lost all brain cells. There are even times of clarity but some days are just Mondays.