Memories

Tyler has this crazy vivid memory. Out of the blue he'll remember some random thing from many months past. He can remember the exact date of the last two Wiggles concerts. He remembers the name of this little kid we met at the park once last fall and have never seen again. I honestly have no idea what triggers these things, he simply blurts them out. Like last night, we were out in the front yard (long story but I'll tell you anyway--it involved a snake yuck!) and I was trying to get the kids in the house. Tyler had just fallen in the gutter (2 feet from the snake), Gavin was holding a dead and dehydrated worm, and Chili was pooping on the neighbors lawn. Could my life have been more chaotic at the very moment? I have really been practicing handling my stress better because my TMJ has flared up worse than ever due to clenching my teeth due to stress. So right before picking up the boys from school, I promised myself I wouldn't yell. Yelling makes me clench I've learned as I wince in pain while yelling. I didn't want Tyler to know that he was a mere two feet from a snake that I'm 90% sure was either dead or almost dead due to the blood on it's skin. I certainly didn't want Gavin to know there was a snake nearby because his newfound passion for bugs will likely transfer over to reptiles too and I'd never get him in the house. Not to mention, I'm pretty sure it was a baby rattlesnake. So I was trying like mad to remain calm about the whole snake thing, reassure Tyler he was okay after falling in the gutter (darn rounded curbs), convince Gavin to put the freakin' worm down and call the dog--all without yelling. Somehow I succeeded and managed to clean up Chili's poop without anyone yelling or discovering that disgusting snake.

So we get inside and I start inspecting Tyler's ouwies and he says to me "Mama Diamond is really soft isn't he." Huh? "Diamond. You know. Dan's dog." Who's Dan? "Daddy's friend Dan. You know. His dog Diamond is really soft." Ummm yeah okay that was in June when we were at Disneyland for five days and spent a few hours of those 5 amazing days visiting Dan and Trish Bernard and that's the memory he blurts out right at that very frantic moment? Random.