<\/p>\nWe were already running late and several of the kids were resisting hurrying, so I picked them up and carted them off to their car seats. One young person was missing shoes, but I knew the shoes would probably come off in the car anyway and I didn’t have time to put them on twice. I’d grab them and put them on when we reached our destination.<\/p>\n
But when we arrived and I unbuckled the shoeless child, I realized I’d left the shoes at home.<\/p>\n
There was nothing to do but to soldier on, carrying the shoeless child when necessary, apologizing profusely to all those whose rules we were breaking by being shoeless.<\/p>\n
I swore it wouldn’t happen again – and when I got home, I made a checklist.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Every time we leave the house, I check the laminated list that lives on the console of my car.<\/p>\n
Almost every week, we stop in the driveway to get that one last item, to complete that one last task. <\/p>\n
We didn’t get medicine this morning before we left the house. I forgot the TULA at home. Our packed lunch is still in the fridge.<\/p>\n
The list doesn’t keep me from forgetting things – but it helps me catch them before it’s too late.<\/p>\n
And so far, we’ve not had any repeats of our shoeless errand day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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