Sweet Treats

That feeling. The one that washes BIG bad GUILT over your entire body and throughout your mind. . . when you've forgotten something that you offered to do, but, well, it completely slipped your mind.

I've been taking pictures all week at VBS, my mind has been full of little faces and fun stuff; then I come home to more of it. Yesterday, when we got there, a little girl had chocolate all around her mouth and I was talking at her {yes, at her....she really didn't want to chat about it - she is only two-ish}. Later, while we're sitting in the Sanctuary and I'm preparing my camera, my youngest walks up to me and shares that he knows what it was on the little girls face. So, I asked.

Cupcakes.

Cupcakes? I thought to myself quickly, like a passing thought. Then, he told me, "Yeah, they are like in a cone."

BAM! It hit me. I forgot to make the cupcakes.

It was nearly a month or so ago when the email went around about VBS, with a few needs on it. See, I like to bake and baking cupcakes is fun. Of course, I'd offer to bring some in for the multitudes, right? I need to stop making offers if my mind can't keep up. No, I didn't write this one down. Sometimes, that doesn't even matter - writing it down.

I once had a birthday party written on my calendar with every intention of attending it {my little man's friend}. I even looked at the calendar in the early morning before our day had really kicked off. It wasn't until the end of the following week at a school function, while we were sitting together, quietly, that she said...."We missed seeing you and Lucien on Sunday." I didn't even know what she was talking about. It was obvious to her, too...because she coaxed my memory.

How do you explain to people that don't really know you as well as they need to? Only those who have known me for years realize that it's not a lazy thing, or a thing that I can control. It's not for lack of trying to remember, at all. I can recite over and over and over again...only to be distracted for a second, and forget.

Oh well. Thankfully, yesterday, they calculated for MANY more cupcakes than children AND there were plenty left over at the end of the day :)

{{and....I thank GOD that He does KNOW me, better than any other and how He smooths over my inabilities, just right}}