No more please!

Do you ever having mommy moments like, I can’t remember if I shampooed my hair? I have been having more and more of those moments lately. It got worse when we added more medicine to Luke’s daily dosages.


Luke has been on medicine to help reduce the acid in his stomach which he gets twice a day, to help his reflux, for about a year now. After a year, I finally remember that everyday I need to give it to him twice. About a month or so ago, Luke was pretty congested and was having trouble breathing when he was sleeping. When we took him to the doc, they thought it could be allergies (especially since he had a lot of trouble last fall and we never did figure out why). So Luke had two more medicines to add, these for his allergies.

So at that point I had 4 medicines to keep track of, the 4th was Luke’s regular vitamin that I gave him every morning. Good old Flintstones!!

Anyway, I did pretty good up to that point, I wound up using a single pill box to remember one of the allergy medicines. But then after talking to Luke’s doctors in Baltimore a few weeks back, we decided to put him on a “vitamin cocktail” to see if could help Luke or not. This meant I needed to add three more medicines/vitamins to Luke’s daily intake…and one of these I have to give him twice in a day.

When I realized I could barely keep track of what I was giving him already, I knew I needed to do something. At first I thought about one of those “special” pill boxes, you know…the ones with two a.m. or two p.m. slots. The problem at Luke’s age is that out of the 7 “medicines”, 2 are liquid and 1 is powder form. So the “pill box” would still take a lot of “mommy memory power”, which I’m not sure I had. Then I also thought about when we have the grandparents baby sit, how in the world will they keep it all straight too?

I knew I needed to make something on my own…something that could be changed easily day to day and not waste lots of paper or anything. So I went to “wally-world” and got a dry erase board, magnets and full/label post-its. The result? The ultimate medicine “keeper-tracker”.

I definitely recommend this for any other mom who feels she can’t remember even the small things like, did I feed the cat as well as the baby? Check out my “beautiful board” below, my new invention!!