Is being busy equal to absent mindedness

Have you ever encountered who have this excuse of being busy that he/she forgot something which was very important? I have encountered many (including myself) who use this excuse to get out of situations or get mad at ourselves for being not vigilant about things that are really important. Usually you will find that mommys are the most forgetful in terms of being busy with their kids that they sometimes forget things that are important to them. Most of the time it is trivial items but sometimes it becomes so important that it becomes an issue. This happens that you are in such a hurry to do things that something will always be left behind. And often this happens when you are going out for a vacation. If it is domestic, it is fine since you can find most of the stuff in the stores or you can do without but if it is international, you really go crazy for even little things like passports, and other things since you don’t know if you are going to get the same thing that you are used to at home. So being busy does not mean that people are absent minded and careless, but there are so many things to take care of that even if you are used to multi tasking you will unintentionally forget something and then you come full circle to blaming not only yourself for being forgetful but other cases to your significant other and your kids and the whole life for leaving things behind.