Stellar moments in parenting

You know that you have dropped one of the balls (or several) that you have been juggling high in the air when: 

1)  After doing 6 full assessments on the medical surgical floor, you admit 2 OB patients, labor one of them, deliver her, move to next room, assist delivery again, sit down to chart in a sea of paperwork, glance at the clock and realize that it is 5pm and you forgot to ask someone to pick up your kids from school.

2)  Your 12yo son is sick with the virus from the depths of hell, and must stay home from school.  You head in to work with the plan of assessing patients, then heading back home, but, well…see #1.  Said child spent the whole day in misery alone. 

3)  As an aside, on said day you also forgot to call your in-laws to see how the major carotid artery repair, that FIL was scheduled to have in the morning, turned out. Major repair that included grafts etc. Yes, he is alive and well and I want some of his pain meds to dull my mind a bit more.

3) You arrive at home to find kids bathed, fed and in good spirits.  They head into den to watch TV, and you sit across from your husband and tell him all about how you suck as a parent and daughter-in-law.  Husband sits silently listening, and after you pull the self inflicted knife out of your chest, he slowly rubs his hands down his face and blurts out “I forgot Mia today”*******Stunned silence***** He continues, “I came home, picked up the boys, took Cody to scouts, and Quinn to soccer, watched the game, then Quinn and I picked up Cody, went home and as I walked in the door my stomach dropped and my mind flashed ‘Hey, where is Mia’. It was 7pm and I had forgotten to pick her up from daycare. I rushed over to Nannies(the kids just call her this..she is not related) house and she said ‘I was so worried, I thought something happened to you’. And I thought, ‘It did…my mind exploded’.”

In other, good news, 12yo had a birthday yesterday, and I did not forget it.  Go me!