Three Steps from Amnesia
Woman in the Middle | July 5, 2015I have told you that I don’t particularly remember much from when I was a child. I didn’t realize it until recently but this extends to my adulthood and my children’s childhood as well.
When my friend Barb came down, she had just moved and in the process of packing up she found some lovely photo album pages she gave Youngest for her college graduation. They were of her 5th and 6th birthday parties. FYI, I was a regular Martha Stewart when it came to planning my girl’s birthday parties. I didn’t hire people. I did it all myself with themes and crafts and games and a cake I made that was very fancy and went with the theme of the party.
This sunflower cake was made with a round cake in the middle and Twinkie “petals”, all frosted yellow. Note the brown “seeds” in the middle of the cake. Those are all chocolate chips. I placed every one of those chocolate chips by hand, one at a time. Hubby was always in charge of finding me a big piece of cardboard that would accommodate what ever fantastic creation I was making that year. What can I say. It was the 1990s and there wasn’t an internet and I had to do something with my time!
I found the pages a delightful reminder of my crazy Martha Stewart days. But there were a couple of little girls at the party who we couldn’t remember to save our souls. I got out my photo album from that era to try to see if I had written down the girls’ names. In looking through the album, I was constantly surprised by all I had done for their parties. There was the giant sunflower cake that you saw in the photo. There was the rabbit coming out of a hat cake for the magic themed party. There was the whale shaped cake for the under the sea party. Seriously folks, I DON”T REMEMBER ANY OF THIS. I remember we had a flower party, a magic party, and an under the sea party (among many others) but I don’t remember the details at all.
Youngest and I were out shopping the following day and were talking about this. Hubby and Eldest daughter have much better memories when it comes to stuff like that, but Youngest admitted that her memory is more like mine, really slim on the details. She said she figures it allows us to let go of the bad stuff more quickly than average.
I have to agree with her. It is hard to be upset about something when you don’t remember it. However, after going though the photo album and seeing all the stuff that is not taking up even one neuron of brain capacity in my head, I also had to acknowledge that I am just about three steps from total amnesia. Those folks that suddenly lose their memory? I am not sure I would notice if that happened. I think I am 90% there already!
Don’t get me wrong, I am a fully functioning adult and remember stuff all the time. But once it is over, it is over, and my brain discards it like used toilet paper. Unfortunately it discards the good with the bad. But isn’t that what photo albums are for?
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