When mum is rushing to kids club

‘Where did you hear about carnival?’
‘It was on the bus. You read it to me’
‘What? Just now? Did we pass a bus and I read out the word ‘carnival’?’

I was driving with an ice pack on my forehead and got in a complete panic, worrying about short term memory loss when I thought Big Girl claimed I had just read out the word carnival. I couldn’t remember doing it and it was not what I wanted to hear right then.

Earlier that morning I had smashed the car door into my forehead by accident when rushing to get Big Girl to a holiday camp. When it happened we’d been right outside Coyne Medical –where Baby Boy had been checked since he’d bumped his head too. After strapping everyone in the car, I’d bumped my own head and had to go back in to sit down for a second and get over the shock that it’s actually possible to crash the door into one’s head.

I had also kindly been offered an ice pack, which I desperately clung onto to limit the bruising and get relief from the soreness.

In the car I couldn’t help feeling a bit worried though, and Big Girl really didn’t help by not making it clear that the carnival she referred to was something we had read on the bus four days earlier.

And I did remember that carnival. No memory loss. Phew!

Tags: Being a mum, Bump, Head injuries, Head injury, Holiday camps, Stress