"Mommybrain"

This morning, I was commenting on how I remembered something... (I forget what it was now..)

And Bria chimed in "But you've got MOMMYBRAIN!" (which has been a running joke between us)

I found myself countering "Believe it or not, my brain worked pretty good before you kids came along!"

Truth is... more often than not I DO have "Mommybrain"!

• Like when I set my cup of coffee down, decaf of course, and turn around forgetting where I put it
• Or the other day when I couldn't find the On/Off switch to the computer terminal I was using! (that was embarassing!)
• Or when I left the diet coke in the bottom of the cart at Target and drove off without it
• Or when Emelie asked how to turn the treadmill on and I drew a complete blank (OK, maybe THAT was because I hadn't used the treadmill in years...)

But the list could go on.. and on...

You've seen that email joke where the woman walks from room to room attempting to clean and straighten but continually gets distracted by more projects and things that need to be cleaned and straightened until the day is gone and she's come full circle; no closer to being finished than when she'd started?

Well, I'm convinced they were following me around when they wrote that. Only I'm NOT old! I'm just sleep deprived; and overworked; and suffering from too much multi-tasking -- in a word: "Mommybrain"!

I was telling a friend at work about it and she said, "'Mommybrain', is that bad?" (she has no kids)

So I googled it. And guess what I found? It IS a real term, someone wrote a book about it and there is a website called "www.themommybrain.com"! Even better, it's not supposed to be so bad... motherhood is supposed to make you smarter or more creative or a better problem solver or something. (I guess I'll have to read the book )

Ha! Who knew?!