So lost in thought, I forgot to pick up my kids. #TiWiWf
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I remembered as I pulled into my own driveway … as I pressed the button for the garage door … as I looked down and their drinks were in the upholders, but THEY were not in their seats behind me.
Oops.
I’d meant to get them on the way back from the drugstore — at the house where I’d dropped them off for only 20 minutes — at a friend’s house.
I’d meant to. I’d planned on it.
And I’d made it all the way home without them.
Rather than let the food get cold, I had my son bring it inside and upon not pulling into the garage, I had to answer the question of “Where are the girls?”
Yeah, yeah, yeah … I forgot to get my girls.
Why you ask?
Well … I’ll tell you.
I had one of those moments where I drove as if without thinking, going from point A to point C, bypassing point B because the path from A to C was ‘normal’. I went home because I was thinking about life and my blog, about writing, work, about my future and not thinking about the little details (as if my kids are the little details).
I just drove.
And that got me to thinking more. I realize I haven’t blogged in a while. Why not? Nothing interesting to say? Nah. Plenty. No time? Well, yeah, that’s been a huge problem lately. Sick? Have been. Yeah, excuse after excuse comes up (just like in forgetting my kids).
The reality?
I lost my blogging mojo … kinda like I lost my way in traveling down the right roads.
I think though … that I’ve refund it.
My blog is about me … about my life as a christian, a wife, a mother of 3 and a workerbee. It’s these things that push me to write fiction. These things add the crazy conflict to my life. These things are the fodder for wanting to have fiction in my life. What happens at work, at the dinner table … in the car as I drive and forget to pick up my kids … these are all the causes to the effects.
These are all the reasons I write fiction.
🙂
So I’ve got a new blogging plan.
All thanks to forgetting to pick up my kids.
How about you? Does getting lost help you find your purpose again?
Share in the comments!
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Hilarious!
Gimme the girls’ number and I’ll have a chat with them about their rights. Ha!
I don’t drive very often now, so most my spaced out moments arrive when I’m walking or (my latest favourite) in the shower. Usually just as I’m wrapping up my wash so I end up just standing beneath the spray doing absolutely nothing with my eyes unfocused and … daydream.
🙂 🙂 🙂
I really couldn’t believe I’d done it and the Boy and the Man aren’t going to let me live it down. “Hey mom … you remember when you forgot the girls?” 😉
I would forget myself if I didn’t keep notes and notes about the notes, and a calendar about the notes!
I can get lost in thought so fast but then I can lose the thought and have to find it again. I have fibromyalgia, a particularly nasty case of it, and there is a component to it called “fibrofog” where the brain (being a muscle) gets mixed up easily on bad days. I can forget things because I hurt, the pain has an effect on my thinking and memory systems. I’ve learned to combat it with notebooks and my smart phone.
I have a notebook for “everyday stuff”. That’s where notes for groceries, daily stuff to do, talks on the phone with people, things I have to remember go. I have a notebook that has my reading to review list in it. I keep it by review group and then by book and date due and I cross off the ones I’ve done and I move them out of my “review books” folder in my Nook. Then I have a notebook for my writing. I keep all my research in it, where I got things (sources), and ideas that I need to look into adding. That’s a 5 subject one so I can add thoughts on other projects if I need to. I also have a notebook for my gaming, I do relax to World of Warcraft when I can, and I keep that in writing too.
I also keep things on my calendar in my phone. Every appointment, every thing I have to remember like running the grandkids somewhere, and even book releases I want to pick up go on it with an alarm so I can be there when it’s due.
It’s taken me years to figure this system out but it helps. Thankfully I’ve been checked and they don’t think I’ve got Alzheimers, it’s just the fibrofog and being very busy and keeping too much stuff going at once.
Sounds like you juggle a lot at once too.