[robandjulie]

The last month of this process was like living in murky water for me; I swear I was so mush-brained I couldn't even hear right some days. So...just for fun... what completely space-case adoption-brain thing have you done lately or what were some of your "DUh!" moment highlites?

For me...

1. Went to store specifically to buy tortillas and ONLY tortillas for dinner, wandered around for an hour picking up baby foods and dishes and toys, left with $30 in random stuff and NO tortillas.

2. I'm a nightmare on the road. I've banned myself from driving but since i get motion sickness riding, it's getting tough. But I'm SUCH a distracted airhead.

[LisaLuka]

I speak to my family and co-workers in Spanish. They don't speak Spanish.

[iwantmybaby]

I don't know. Too many things to list. BUT, Julie are you in GUAT? How did the trip go getting there, and were you able to sleep at all last night?

Tracy

[kzwief]

Hmmm, have to think about that and thinking is harder and harder every day! LOL!

[Clare'sMom]

OK so I have only admitted this to 3 people... one is not my husband!! He would have me check into a mental hospital, and one is a friend that was with me at the time.

I park in a comuter lot every morning at 7:45am, right next to a co-worker and good friend. One morning a few weeks ago I was running late (always) I flew into the lot parked in my spot while talking on the phone (yes I know, bad) to my DH who was just ticken me off that morning. I looked over to see my friend getting out of her car and the bus pulling up behind me......In my defence all of this was going on at about the same time. So I bolted out of my car, still on the phone, telling my friend good morning and jumped on the bus.

Fast forward to later that same day......My friend and I leave at the same time in the afternoon and ride the same bus back out to our parking lot. That day I couldn't find my keys while digging around in my bag.... all I could think of was great, I locked them in my car...Oh I wish... When I got out to my car at 5:30pm, I realized that my keys were in fact still in my Unlocked and RUNNING car..... Thank Heaven I work in a very crime free city with great lot security and that I filled the gas tank the night before or I would have had to be towed out of the lot...

I can't even think of a funny or smart allicy thing to say about this... I have been questioning my mental state latley....

[robandjulie]

Originally Posted by iwantmybaby

I don't know. Too many things to list. BUT, Julie are you in GUAT? How did the trip go getting there, and were you able to sleep at all last night?

Tracy

Yes, we're here! Got about 2.5 hours sleep last night and then we got to the hotel and caught 2 hour naps before the facilitator and FF came. Flights were great; I love Delta.

Jorge is fantastic. We did PU at 5pm which is hard on him b/c he's already winding down for the day and tired and so a disruption at that point is hard on bedtime. It took us an hour to get him to sleep--mostly me pacing the halls with him in my sling--but he's out for now. We hae to meet the facilitator in the lobby at 6:15 AM so not going to be up much longer ourselves!

The handoff was hard hard hard. We're actually going to the zoo with the FM and FD on Thurs and they're probably seeing us off at the airport Friday so it was not really a "forever goodbye" thing today but everyone still sobbed except Jorge who was too busy giving kisses and running around. They love Jorge so much and it hurts to see them grieving so much.

Ok, off to bed...adoption brain struck again adn I forgot to post this!

[lou0728]

Oh my gosh..... Does forgetting to brush your teeth count??? I have had so many incidents I can't even remember!

[Angel99]

OK- We've been home a while now so I don't know if this counts as "adoption brain syndrome" however- this morning I got up to get Jess a bottle of milk and I poured her milk into the thermos I left out to put DS lunch in today. Then I stared at it for a moment like ..... the bottle looks different today....Hmmmmmm.

I (embarrassed to admit this) forget to brush my teeth A LOT before bed.

I can't tell you how many times I have gotten up to realize that I still have my make up on from the day before!

[karen nickols]

1 toddlers plus one more at my age is definately more than two. Yesterday I was proud of getting some dinner made and threw some bought muffins the the oven then realized I am OUT OF BUTTER? Gees who runs out of butter. I ended up buring them anyway. Today I made homemade blueberries muffins. Got distracted and forgot the sugar in them. Oh I and I still don't have any butter. (Any one out there want to come to MY house for dinner?) scary.

[JustBarbara]

Last night as I was giving DS his snack of a mini blueberry muffin and milk ... we're both in the kitchen and he opens the fridge for the milk. I pour it into his cup and say ohno this is the last milk - we'll have to go to the store and buy more. I always have a backup quart. "No, Mama - the milk is rye heah - see?" Duh! Okay - I also ran out of butter ... but two days later 'found' some in the freezer.

[oceanica]

I was sort of tired bec Athena got up like 4 times the night before so I went for a big cup of coffee and I reached for my favorite hazelnut creamer (they have a dispenser at our cafeteria) only to notice that I was about to dispense orange juice into the coffee!