Some time ago, I came across a paper I wrote in college.  The problem was that I couldn't understand I word I wrote.  It must have made sense to me when I wrote it.  I was in a funk for days just thinking about it!  Now, my feelings have healed a little and I'm not pouting so much anymore and I can think clearly on the subject.  Here goes. . .
I have not lost intelligence.  Facebook tells me so.  I took the IQ test and scored significantly higher than Paris Hilton and Jennifer Aniston.  As a mother of three (beautiful and brilliant) children 6 years old and under, maybe it's all buried beneath years of the Disney Channel-days filled with diapers, laundry, and constant cleaning up after tiny humans.  Long gone are the long nights sitting around in groups discussing politics, religion, and how we can change the world.  Today, it's shapes, colors, and step by step instructions on teeth brushing, bottom wiping, and hand washing.  I sigh sadly as I remember the good old days of "feeling intellectual".  Then it hits me like a tackle from my very solidly built 4 year old-I'm not getting dumber-I'm getting wiser!  The things I used to discuss for kicks-I'm living them!  It's not careless banter, it's the day in and day out of my life and it effects not only me but more importantly my children.  While days filled with the basics of hygiene and fundamental learning might not sound noble or exciting, what could be more so than preparing the next generation to live lives of integrity and compassion and-for the love of Pete-common sense?!  The future depends on the mundane things I'm up to my eyeballs in everyday.  If we mothers don't do what we're doing, we'll have a world full of dirty germy adults who cause major traffic accidents because they don't know what a red octagon means.  Lives are truly at stake people!  So now, I'm feeling pretty smart 'cuz it might just take more smarts to do my job than it does to write a paper on creationism versus evolution--Rock on!