Top 10 signs you are one overwhelmed mother

• Your short-term memory is fried. By that I mean you walk from the kitchen to the pantry and forget what you’re getting from the pantry. But that’s the minor leagues. I leave the house headed to Walgreens to pick up meds and forget what I’m there for.
• You sweat–a lot. Or maybe that’s just me? I am always rushing out the door wherever I’m going so by the time I get to the car, I’m fogging up the windows in 7 degree weather.

• You’re late–everywhere. Again, this could just be me. But, no matter how early I wake up or start getting ready, I will inadvertently be 5 minutes late.
• You lose your phone as often as you slough of skin cells. That’s a lot, in case you were wondering. If it weren’t for my Apple Watch, I would never know where my phone was. Even then, I sometimes can hear the phone, but can’t find it anywhere.

• You lose your train of thought in the grocery store and end up just staring at the frozen food section because that’s about all you can handle at the moment. Then you come home with random items in the bag that you’ve never bought before. Why not?
• You Pinterest “Super Easy Weeknight Dinners” and actually have “Whatever Night” penciled in for every Thursday night. Because let’s be honest, by Thursday ain’t nobody got time for cooking a four-course meal. That is not the time to try new recipes either.

• You check the mail once a week. This can present itself as a problem. The Great Brush Pile Incident of 2018 nearly landed me in jail. But that’s another story.
• You throw random items, like cheese sticks, carrots, and whatever is left in that crinkled up bag in the back of the pantry, in your lunch box and call it “lunch”.

• You go straight from coffee to another caffeinated beverage and then around 2 o’clock you feel weird and realize that you haven’t had water since you slammed 5 pills at once in the wee hours of the morning.
• You buy in bulk just so you don’t have to go anywhere for longer stretches of time. But if you do, you choose drive up so you don’t have to go in. That is a genius service, by the way, and I pray it never leaves!

So that’s it. The top 10 ways you know you’re one overwhelmed mother!

Stay positive. Stay kind.

Love, Jes