1) Wake up several times during the night because you think maybe the alarm didn’t go off.
2) Forget to take your vitamins because, while rinsing out the cup for water, you remembered that you should only do laundry with cold water and by the way… there is a load in the washing machine that needs to dry and you can start another load now!
3) Write down EXACTLY what you need to buy and what has to be done when you leave the house so you only need to go out once.
4) Leave the list home. Somewhere.
5) Run around the supermarket looking like your motto should be “catch me if you can.”
6) Go back home, run into the house and spend and hour looking for the damn list.
7) After the hour is gone, and the list is nowhere to be found, agree to go with your child to practice his driving skills.
8) See the grocery bag in the back of the car just as you are about to enter the car.
9) Exactly at that moment, remember you also bought ice cream.
10) After running back and forth from the car to the refrigerator, flapping your VERY expressive arms like a penguin who wished she could fly, make up your mind to breathe and really enjoy this time with your son. He will be leaving soon to college and these moments are precious.
11) As soon as you hit the passenger seat, chug your VERY LARGE size caffeine drink in one shot and start chatting away like you are back with your bff 30 years ago, woohooing like a groupie while talking about all the things you plan to do now that your life is about to change, one of them being working on your memory because who needs that thing (“whatchamacallit”) that you forgot earlier.
12) Notice that your kid is parking the car, look at the car clock and notice it has been 25 minutes since the practice-drive started and see how your son calmly walks towards the house looking very happy after a job well-done.
Take a minute to realize the day is almost gone, you missed your only child driving like a boss, and you have no real ice cream to celebrate today.
