forget-me-not

recently it seems i'm becoming even more forgetful than i normally am.  for example, the other night right before i left to tutor, chris reminded me that i'd placed my extra set of car keys on the windshield .  of course, that little tidbit of information promptly left my brain until ten minutes later, when i was barreling down the interstate and caught a glare through my dashboard.  there were my keys, hanging on for dear life below the wipers.  somehow they held fast and i retrieved them at the first traffic light.

and last night, i forgot to help liam choose today's outfit.  (we always consult the weather forecast and decide together what clothes he'd like to wear, which makes our mornings run so much more smoothly.)  so after breakfast, i sent him up to his room to dress himself.  and this is how he returned:

navy and bright yellow striped polo, brown and green plaid shorts.  i suppose he could have started a new fashion trend, if only i had allowed him to leave the house like that.

the one consolation to my early-onset alzheimer's is that i'm apparently in good company: the tooth fairy forgot to visit last night as well.  after liam's initial disappointment (and a few tears -- i bet that tooth fairy felt awful) he did find a note she left, which explained how there were a ton of kids in france who also lost their teeth yesterday and her visit to north carolina was delayed a bit.  a note which, incidentally, he came across when he went back upstairs to change his shirt.

so i guess everything worked out quite well in the end ... if i'm remembering it all correctly.