I have tried many things to remember dates. I have tried the post-it method, you know putting post-its up to remember things. I have tried apps on my phone. I tried the little notepad method. Carrying around a little notepad to write notes on it. I have used a calendar, a computer calendar, a write on/wipe off calendar all to no avail. No method seems to work.
Why do I write about this you ask? I realized last night that my niece's first birthday is this Sunday. Did you catch that? Last night, Thursday night, I noticed that my niece's birthday is in a few days. I didn't even remember. I saw it on a calendar. I didn't even have it on my electronic calendar. I didn't even put it in my electronic calendar!
Now it is too late to send a card or present and have it get there on time. If she were older, I could send her an electronic present, like an Itunes card but 1 year old babies don't really need Itunes. So I will be late with my present. Ergh...
I wish my brain was connected to my body. So tomorrow I will have to go shopping and get that little tyke something. I have an idea but since my sister-in-law reads my blog, I will keep my idea to myself.
If anyone has any great ideas on how to remember birthdays, I would love to hear them.
Don't worry Reese! I have not forgotten you. I am just horribly late as usual. Happy 1st Birthday!
Until tomorrow...
Well I know how you feel I got the date of my grandsons birthday wrong this month so I was late with gift as well. He just assumed I was having a moment and it would turn up sometime! He is nineteen so it is a little different to you. I try to remember to look at the calendar at the beginning of the month and then buy any cards that I will need. These are then a visible reminder. However it clearly doesn't always work! I have tried programming my phone with reminders as well. It is so difficult when your brain is mushy.
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Lorna x
Reese loves you just the same. I told her about your worry that her present was late. She said, "Momma, that sounds like a good thing to me. I'll get another day to celebrate my birthday when I open Aunts Adrienne and Brenda's present." Then she smiled.
ReplyDeleteOkay, she didn't quite say all of those words. But she did smile!
Thank you a fun present will be in the mail this week.
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