Ummm apparently, I am not.
We have always known that our oldest daughter, Erin, was a bright child, but it wasn’t until we started investigating her potential this past school year, that we realized just how intelligent she is. Her teacher sent home a summer list of brain exercise games that she wanted us to work with her on so that her mind did not disintegrate like quicksand over the months of break. I basically tucked the list into some random pile of papers for a few weeks and then finally got to ordering some of the games on-line recently.
Both of the girls were excited for the new games to arrive on our doorstep by the big brown UPS truck. They arrived last Saturday morning, just as I was waking up from a mere four-hour nap after working night shift. Erin was adament that she wanted to play one of the games right then and there…she did not care that her perspective opponent was a groggy nightmare.
She sat me down to play one of the games, “Mastermind” and quickly relayed the simple instructions to me. “Huhhhh??” was all that I could utter. My brain was not grasping the strategy of the game. I am not sure if I can attribute this to the lack of sleep or to my pathetic IQ at this point in my mommy-hood life.
Frustrated, she flatly said to me, “Mom, in first grade, someone explained this to me once and then I just played it. No biggie.”
“See if Daddy will play it once so that I can see how it is done and then I can play it with you.” I replied.
So Sky came onto the scene and figured out the game’s strategy in no lie, 10 seconds flat. That math-lete bastard, I tell you.
Erin sarcastically chortled, ” Daddy, Mom and Megan can’t play these games…they are dumbos”. (She got a talking to later about this comment, Little Miss Smarty Pants…I’ll show you who is in charge.)
And so I sulked off into the living room, with my once smart tail and my bruised ego (I swear I was smart pre-kids!) tucked between my legs. And this is the likes of who I met up with…
I can still play a mean game of Candy Land and Chutes and Ladders.
Even if I did lose. I let her win, but who’s counting?
Besides, if you ask me, us right-brained people are far more interesting than those left-brainers. Who needs them anyway? 
