forgetfulness

I completely forgot today that I was supposed to pick Will up from orchestra today. He called me about 20 minutes after I was supposed to be at the school to find out where I was, and until I looked at the caller id and saw it was the school, I had no recollection that I was forgetting something. I don't know if I am just too busy or if I'm just getting old. Probably a little of both.

Of course it was not a big deal- he was fine, and it had stopped snowing and was a little warmer outside by then (hooray- a blizzard on the first of May- so much for global warming). But I guess it kind of hit home with me because it was just yesterday that I heard about the mom who forgot her baby was in the car, and the baby died. I remember thinking to myself, "how do you forget about your baby?' and thinking that mother must somehow be different from me, and that something like that could never happen to me because I would never forget my kids. So much for self righteousness. The truth is any sort of tragedy could befall any of us at any moment and there is no way to predict or prevent it. Im just lucky the only thing I forgot was to pick up my kid on time, and that nothing terrible happened to him while I was not remembering him.
On another note, back to the MayDay blizzard. When we got up this morning, there was about an inch of snow on the ground, and it was a full fledged blizzard for a good part of the day. It was also FREEZING cold. Literally freezing.
I made corned beef and cabbage for dinner tonight, and it was so disgusting I couldn't eat it. I am not even going to try it on the kids. It really is nasty. So now I have to go dig out some leftovers or something for them. What I really would like to do is just go to a movie and eat popcorn and junior mints.