I swear once you become a mother it is like every child takes a little piece of your brain, seriously! I used to be so great at mathematics in high school and then I had my daughter at age 20 and low and behold I lost part of my brain. I could no longer remember dates, phone numbers nor was I able to correctly balance my checkbook. Then I had two more children, why!? Not sure what I was thinking, apparently I love children or something

So here I am a mom with three children ages 7, 3 and 1. I swear my brain has lost so many functions and it’s what I like to call Mommy Brain. If you want me to remember to call you at a specific date and time or want me to remember your phone number, that number is going into my Verizon Wireless Blackberry Curve smart phone, why? Well quite frankly I can write it on the calendar, I can write it on a post-it note, but without a nice alarm buzzing to remind me, you can be pretty certain I WILL NOT call you, attend the event or anything.

My brain is so shot from having my children that I am often so absentminded that I have even used bar soap on my children’s hair, forgot what time Girl Scouts was, nearly forgot to pick my oldest up from school and oh yeah I almost forgot about a few soccer games too! It’s like my smart phone is the only way I can remember a thing!

I admit when I first got my smart phone, I didn’t know if I would even like it or if it would be worth paying for the service each and every month, but seriously I love my life with my smart phone, without it I would be walking around lost and forgetting those important events!

Now my smart phone is so attached to my hip that unless my daughter is playing Tetris on it, I have it right by my side everywhere. My friends pick on me by taking my smart phone and let me tell you what, I freak out. I seriously freak out and go grabbing for it as fast as I can. They think it’s a riot! I think it’s “not cool” at all, that smart phone is my lifeline, don’t they understand that I have Mommy Brain?!

Disclosure: Verizon and JuiceBoxJungle sponsored me to write this post, and they asked me to talk about the ways my smart phone affects my life as a parent.