Well with me it goes like this. While taking the laundry upstairs, out of the corner of my eye I spy, under the upstairs couch, the DVD case to the "Elijah" video that we've been missing.
(Good Elijah video for kids by the way. Especially if you like opera. You can find it here or here.)
I don't have time out pull the case out at that precise moment so I move on.
Later, while cleaning my bedroom, I see the Elijah DVD that belongs to said case on the stack of books on the changing table. The matching game begins. "Oooh! Now where did I see that case? I know. I know. It's on the tip of my brain." I mentally re-track, but to no avail. There's been too much water under the bridge since then. Too much other stuff too.
No match. Try flipping again on the next upstairs laundry haul.
It goes the same with shoes. Oh, there's my daughter's right sandal. Can't grab it now cause I have too many dishes in my hand, and of course, every available child to which I could hand over this sandal recovery mission has suddenly vanished from the room. So I tell myself, remember, it's under the side table in the living room.
Days later, I find the left sandal, in the garage. But the memory of where the right was spotted or has been moved to since is forever beyond my reach.
Thus it goes.
So you see, moms get to play fun games too.
Ha ha ha. I've played that game a thousand times but I never knew what it was called. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteHmmm. . . I play Perfection around here, I think. Isn't that the one where you race to get all the shapes in the right holes before the timer runs out and everything pops out all over the place again?
ReplyDeleteMy kids like to move me up a level from basic memory - they move the pieces when I'm not looking then I try to guess where they could be now. But think how boring life would be without these children! I love my vocation :-)
ReplyDeleteThat's funny. Daniel just bought that game for Isabella so we've been playing it most nights. She's quite good while Violet likes to move the cards around to make it more challenging than triumphantly calling out "no match" when you can't get one. See, it works in real life and the real game! ;-)
ReplyDeleteSOOOO my life! :) It was more fun when I was a kid!
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