Trust yourself. Trust your actions. Trust your intentions. Even if you can’t remember WHY you tried to hide the innocent little Jingle Doggy (leftover from Christmas) waaaaaay up in your daughters’ closet so they would never find him again until next year.
“Mommy! Jingle Doggy! Get Jingle Doggy!” LadyP desperately cried and pointed up into her closet as I changed her sister’s diaper across their bedroom. I walked over to the closet and looked up. There was our holiday entertainment, Jingle Doggy (sent in the mail by GrandmaFab), stuck up on the top shelf. What’s Jingle Doggy doing up here I thought… He was so cute and fun and sweet the way he bounced and danced around in a circle to the tune of “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” every time you pushed the red button on his tiny paw… Why would I put him up here? I doubted my own actions.
My memory somehow erased the reason why I did it, but as soon as I got Jingle Doggy off the shelf and gave him to LadyP it all came rushing back…
LilMiss let out a long shriek from here to Kingdom Come and dove head first into the stuffed animal because she wanted to play. LadyP screamed and cried and snatched Jingle Doggy away from her 10-month old baby sister and went sprinting down the hallway because she wanted it. LilMiss shrieked more and more (face totally beet red). LadyP fought back. It was like I suddenly had to vultures or vampires or something and they were after poor Jingle Doggy. (All the while I kept saying this as “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” repeated on and on.) At one point I thought the neighbors were going to come investigate the situation.
Now I remember WHY I put that dog on the top shelf.
DON’T DOUBT YOUR ACTIONS. There’s always a good reason for what you do even if you can’t remember it at the time.
Thank you, Jingle Doggy, for this reminder and your sacrifice.
HAVE YOU HAD MOM-MEMORY LAPSES?
