complic8d, that sounds a lot like my days lately. The kids will repeat something that they'd told me earlier, and I have no recollection of them telling me. I know a lot of it is because I'm usually trying to concentrate on work when they're talking to me, and my brain has trouble listening to two voices at once (doctor's dictation and my kids) plus whatever other static my brain is trying to process (did I pay the bills on time, what homework assignment is the teacher going to tell me that my daughter didn't turn in yet, oh god it's almost Friday and I have to deal with the ex, etc.)