Monday, October 3, 2011

Momnesia

Momnesia(n): loss of memory due usually to motherhood.

I made the most embarrassing phone call this morning.

Matt and I went to Babies R Us over the weekend to buy an extra car seat base for Sara, our close friend and Lucas' child care provider. Last night as I was getting his things together for Sara's, I asked Matt where the car seat base was. It wasn't in his car, not in my car, not in the kitchen or the dining room. It wasn't in Lucas' room. "Where could it be?" I asked Matt.

Then came the look of recognition as we both realized the same thing at the same time. No!? Could we have? Was it possible? Did we leave the base at Babies R Us?

It was cold and raining on Saturday, and Lucas had started to cry while I was paying for the base. Matt was tending to Lucas, I was half paying attention to the cashier, but really looking over at Matt and Lucas to see if I could do anything to help calm him. We got him bundled up and out the door into the rain. I thought Matt had grabbed the car seat base. He thought I did.

I know I sounded sheepish and foolish on the phone as I explain the situation to the customer service rep this morning. She was very nice, confirming that they did, in fact, have a car seat base a customer had left at check out on Saturday. After a pathetic series of "thank you's" an "I'm so embarrassed" and one "this has never happened to me before," I detected a little eye rolling on her part before she high tailed it off the phone.

When I was explaining this to Sara earlier today, she laughed and said, "Yup, been there, done that." She had left two large bottles of laundry detergent at Babies R Us at one time and made the same kind of phone call. "Just blame it on momnesia," she added with a laugh.

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