…Catie graduated from Kindergarten.

…the twins were still in diapers.

…I was bigger than a house.

…Nate was said house.

That’s what I remember.

It’s amazing what I’ve forgotten. Mostly because I’m not a forgetter. Friends call me when they can’t remember the name of some random person. M asks me when he needs the name of the guy who repaired our AC six years ago.

But suddenly I’ve turned into Chief Forgetter. Maybe it’s the Epstein-Barr Cog Fog that’s so prevalent with this stupid disease. Maybe it’s four kids and too much stuff and not enough time to reflect.

Case in point: yesterday I showed the twins a picture of their class last year. They couldn’t remember any of the kids.

I could remember only three of the kids’ names. Two of them were mine.

You may not think it’s strange I couldn’t remember the name of five two-year-olds the twins saw twice a week for a few months.

But I can STILL remember every kid Catie’s two-year-old class–and their mom’s names.

Must be true that age + crisis makes the forgetter work a little too well for all of us.

God bless Nate and his future classmates.

I hope to remember any of their names.


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