You know you're tired when...

[lucysmam]

The cheese goes on the pile of pots to be washed up, and the grater goes on the cheese shelf in the fridge

Turned onto M11 to get to a client and then couldn't remember if I was going north or south.

Trying to swipe into my house with my Oyster card. Apparently I need keys.

I realised once I was ‘shush-patting’ myself to sleep after I’d put the baby down 😂

Mia that may be a blessing in disguise!

Got to the end of the street before realising I was not wearing shoes.
Was woken from a nap by the window cleaner letting me know "you've left your keys in the door again" (the word "again" was the worst part, not only was it not the first time, but the window cleaner knew that).
Arrived at a birthday party a week early.
Arrived at another party an hour early (in my defence, I forgot the clocks went back).
Forgot how to do stairs and sat on the stairs for a nap while I figured it out.

Went to work with one ankle boot and one calf length boot on.

You see the children off to school and fall asleep until 2pm.

I did a similar thing with our cat, Apple. I don't think she minded the patting and shushing much, but I'm not sure she would have agreed with having a nappy, hat and babygro on if I'd gone that far in my sleep deprived state!

BlackBelt that would be too cute. I’d pay to see a cat in a baby gro 😂

You put a lemon in your child's pack lunch instead of a satsuma

You switch the plane onto autopilot and don’t wake up until you are 15 miles past your destination.

Left the house to go to work and said night night to my dh in stead of goodbye, it was 8 am! Then wondered why I couldn't unlock the door at work with my car key fob.

Well, Apple, thanks to the DCs she happily wears 'jumpers' at Christmas and Hallowe'en - anything that involves being warmer, she doesn't mind. So it could be arranged, especially if money is changing hands!

I love all of these, laughing here with a scrunched up face and tears and have done lots of them myself so I feel normal now

When you lose your car keys in Tesco, retrace your steps and find them in the grapes display 🍇

You wake up thinking the duvet you're cradling is the baby, realise it's not, wake up dh whisper-shrieking "where's the baby?!" He points to the sleeping baby in the moses basket, and you say "no the other baby!" (We have one baby)

Away from home with an ill baby, ring the local GP surgery and explain fairly cogently what's wrong. They agree to see her and ask for her details to book the appointment, and you can't remember her name. At all. Total blank.

Couple of years later, friends visiting at Halloween, agree to take the children trick or treating. Get to the end of the street and 2 year old DD complains her feet hurt, look down and check and she has no shoes on, only thin stripy witch tights In your sleep deprived state, it doesn't occur to you to take her home for clean tights and shoes, so you piggy back her round the neighbouring three streets to trick or treat. Double fail.

Kneeling down at the side of the bed to put my phone on charge and waking up twenty minutes after school pick up time to the phone, still uncharged, ringing in my hand, rocking up at school in my cleaning clothes and slippers with my hair in a bad state, I'd been asleep 4 hours.

Standing outside my front door repeatedly pressing the car fob and being amazed the door didn't open.

Microwaving a cuppa for 30 mins not 30 seconds and my fave mug exploding.

Putting the dog out instead of the cat and having a neighbour return it.

Putting a nappy on backwards.

And the best one, making the baby a coffee, in a mug, he was 6 weeks old!

When you wave a DC off for the morning school bus, calling 'goodnight!'. Embarrassing mum strikes again.

When you commute to work for an important meeting and only then realise you're wearing slippers

Well, that's made me feel a bit better. Nice slippers!

When I was pregnant I went to work with no shoes on.

DP put the oven glove in the cupboard, but was accusing our son of hiding it (he was under 1 at the time). Again DP, put the ham in the bin, instead of back into the fridge, I found it when I was home from work.

You put the dirty laundry in the loo and try to flush it! In my defence the washing machine is in the bathroom.
You make a guest a cuppa, using formula instead of coffee and actually give them it.
You get off the bus with the baby, but leave the buggy on it ( in the days when they had to be folded and stored )
You put a chicken in the oven and forget to turn it on. Then you don't realise until it's time to eat.
You try to remove a red hot tray from the oven with bare hands ( to be fair, no baby brain required for me to do this )
You call your OH by your male bosses name and vice versa.
You forget your own baby's name, along with yours, your OH and the dog's.
You get in the car and can't figure out what the Hell to do next to drive it.

When you spend the day with your slippers on the wrong feet but do not realise.

You get in the car and try to drive off without even switching the ignition on 😴