Why didn't anyone tell me.....

....That my sweater was on backwards.
Yes, I realized at 11am that it was inside out.
I'm guessing in my first three hours at work that quite a few people learned that I shop at the Gap and my size.

Or that I had food in my hair, remnants of one of the kids breakfast.
This one I figured out mid-afternoon one day last week. 

Or that my one year old daughter sneezed onto the front of my jacket yesterday morning and left me a lovely surprise (I discovered this one pretty quickly, and chose instead to freeze for my morning walk into the office than bear the humiliation of a snotty jacket).

Most of all, why didn't anyone warn me how often these things happen once you have kids?

It's like pregnancy brain arrived with my first pregnancy and never left.
That would mean I've been in a bit of a fog for the past 4 years.

I was recently away at a conference, and upon arriving in my hotel room had about five minutes to settle before heading out for dinner.  So I did what any normal person would do and put my passport and electronics into the hotel safe right?  Nope.  In my rush, I decided to just lock them into my suitcase with the little lock and key I use while travelling.  And then couldn't find the key later than night when returning to my room.  I did eventually find it at the bottom of my purse.  At the expense of a variety of jokes from others for the following days.  I still wonder if the hotel would have had lock cutters on hand for such circumstances?

Why didn't anyone tell me that motherhood would cause me to be such a scatterbrain sometimes?!

Now don't get me wrong, when I need to be 100% mentally there, I am.  But other times...well, I wonder where my common sense went. 

To all the other mommies who know what I'm talking about, you are not alone!

To the rest of you -  next time you see me with banana in my hair, please tell me.  I'll still let you have the joke at my expense :)

Mara