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is becoming harder as the kids grow older or maybe it's me. I've seen this happen more and more, the children say something and either I just don't hear them, and sometimes I will and react like 2 days later. Example: my daughter'll come and say our teacher asked us to get cereal boxes next Monday. Now sometimes, I'll jot it down in my memory and sometimes I'll rouse on Sunday evening and say 'Did your teacher want something'?
This morning the kids were getting dressed for school, I was packing their tiffins too and my girl sang a number, sang two versions of it and said see this is how I sing it flat and this is how I make it melodious. I know two years earlier I would have been in tears over something so sweet (she did sing it well) and I nodded and hmmed (hopefully audibly) and I walked out of the room. And since they've left I am wondering, is this normal? Has the novelty of kids doing fantabulous stuff worn out? Or am I just tired of two creatures talking incessantly all day that I've zoned out - like completely.
How do you stay focused?
I wish them all the luck that accompanies such malevolence. - Jim Carrey
You don't. You save the attentiveness for the times that matter. Focused is, is he cutting his own leg off with his Lego blocks? Is he trying to make silly putty with the boiling water out of the water dispenser?
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Dr Kurt Langstrom wrote:Sounds like you're getting old, lady.
I think I am...this morning the husband mentioned my upcoming birthday and said I have been with him as many years as I have been without him. Freaky, right?
Seriously, Sandy, wait another 3 years and you won't believe how much these 5-6 year olds talk.
I wish them all the luck that accompanies such malevolence. - Jim Carrey
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Dr Kurt Langstrom wrote:Sounds like you're getting old, lady.
I think I am...this morning the husband mentioned my upcoming birthday and said I have been with him as many years as I have been without him. Freaky, right?
Dr Kurt Langstrom wrote:Sounds like you're getting old, lady.
I think I am...this morning the husband mentioned my upcoming birthday and said I have been with him as many years as I have been without him. Freaky, right?
Seriously, Sandy, wait another 3 years and you won't believe how much these 5-6 year olds talk.
I'm looking forward to it. I can't wait. I cannot imagine that those times will ever lose their lustre for me. Although I could be wrong, of course.
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Dr Kurt Langstrom wrote:Sounds like you're getting old, lady.
I think I am...this morning the husband mentioned my upcoming birthday and said I have been with him as many years as I have been without him. Freaky, right?
You were FOURTEEN when you started dating?
SEVENTEEN. I turn 34 in 2 weeks.
sandman wrote:I'm looking forward to it. I can't wait. I cannot imagine that those times will ever lose their lustre for me. Although I could be wrong, of course.
That's what I thought. And yet I tune out these kids ever so often!
I wish them all the luck that accompanies such malevolence. - Jim Carrey
Dr Kurt Langstrom wrote:Sounds like you're getting old, lady.
I think I am...this morning the husband mentioned my upcoming birthday and said I have been with him as many years as I have been without him. Freaky, right?
(Holy crap, I figured I'd definitely get my ass kicked over that one. Talk about dodging a bullet. Anyways, you're still just a young punk to me.)
Physics, kiddo. As they get bigger, their density increases, as does the displacement and complexity of their output.
Your available bandwith, on the other hand, has remained static.
Naturally, you aren't going to be able to catch every pitch that comes your way.
Like Snady said, you have to, accordingly, make sure you catch the right ones.
When the going gets tough...shut up and do your job -Gator Hunter Troy Landry
I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls.
That's my secret, Cap. I'm always angry.
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Dr Kurt Langstrom wrote:(Holy crap, I figured I'd definitely get my ass kicked over that one. Talk about dodging a bullet. Anyways, you're still just a young punk to me.)
I didn't know how to react.....still mulling over it. He sounded cheeky. Hmmmmm
Physics, kiddo. As they get bigger, their density increases, as does the displacement and complexity of their output.
Your available bandwith, on the other hand, has remained static.
Thanks, it makes sense. But you know moms, I'm afraid, I'm letting them go already. Anyways one of them is calling me to wash his bum so I guess they're really not going anywhere.
I wish them all the luck that accompanies such malevolence. - Jim Carrey
Oh I know all about zoning out! My kids hate it when I do it because they are so used to being the center or my universe!
I don't do it on purpose of course but there is always So Much To Do between work and household tasks and relationships (kids included) and volunteer work.
Now I have a funny way of zoning out that at least we can all laugh about. They will start telling me something and you know how it is, they will go on and on and on and on and ON and at some point my eyes get a funny unfocused look and I start singing a song. It is funny and freaky at the same time they say, and they'll bring me back to the present by whining, "Mom, you're doing it again!"
I try to be Present but it's hard. I like what Sandman and Dr so and so had to say.
All this divea to say you are perfectly normal and it is not at all related to aging, not at 34 anyway!!
And yet I tune out these kids ever so often! 
.you missed your opportunity Sirreeee. 