Why do I do this?
Re-attach the Little People plastic silo to the barn every night.
Think I’m going to remember which stack of clothes in the
drawer belongs to which size. What I should do, is just have a “too small”
drawer, sort it every time it gets full, and box the clothes by size. The
trouble is that last step—I sort it, think, “I’m sure a box will come along
before I need to put this stack away.” It doesn’t. Back in the drawer! Re-sort!
Re-sort is SO different from resort. Though, it is oddly soothing.
Save EOBs for more than a year. Am I going to be nostalgic
for how much Blue Shield covered for the audiologist? Am I going to be tested
on this?
Think that someday, “Cookie” magazine will send me more
alphabet stickers, and I can finish labeling the binders that look like “I__B_L”
and “J_M__”.
Balance my toothbrush on top of stacked men’s razors in the
medical cabinet. It will always fall down into the sink when I open the cabinet
the next morning. In my defense, the toothbrush cup also often mysteriously
falls down, but onto the floor.
Give the "Band-Aid lecture" about how Band-Aids are for when there's blood (a little simplified, I know), and then worry that the constant stream of hurts are actually intentional attempts to draw blood in order to acquire the coveted Band-Aids. Just give them the Band-Aids already. Accept that they are small child body art, and that they must be placed in the exact, invisible location of the deadly injury caused by stepping on a single unpopped popcorn kernel.
Think, at the grocery store, that there is enough milk at
home and that I don’t have to get another gallon.
Similarly, think: “We have eggs, don’t we?” The answer is
always, “Yes, we have ONE egg. In a closed egg carton that looks optimistically
full.” Also, by the time you get home, someone will have added it to pancake
mix that doesn’t require eggs. He will also replace the empty egg carton,
closed, in the fridge. You will discover this halfway through making chocolate
chip cookies.
Thank goodness I’ve
stopped:
Stacking the Ikea children's plates in rainbow order
Ditto with the Ikea children's cups
Keeping the HIPAA forms. You can tell a veteran hospital mom
because she takes it, says “thanks”, and then gives it back with some
deprecatory remark about shelves full of medical binders. Because you do have
to take it, but you can also give it back. :)