Come to think of it

when an idea appears in your mind while you're speaking

Come to think of it, it is snack time. Let's go eat something. Maybe like your kids, my kids are always asking for a snack, but I try not to let them eat a snack all day, all the time. We have kind of snack times. It's not extremely strict, but if they ask me for a snack and it's around 10 o'clock in the morning, that's generally snack time and they say, "Mom, I'm so hungry, I'm so hungry, I need a snack." I might say, " Well, come to think of it, it is snack time. let's go eat something." So here we're talking about something that just appeared in my mind in the middle of this conversation. I wasn't thinking, snack time is coming soon, I'm going to prepare a snack. No, my kids asked me for a snack and I just remembered, "Oh, come to think of it. Oh, look at that. It is snack time. Let's go eat." So it's something that just comes up in the conversation. I want to give you another example for this. Last week, my sister and I were talking about my grandparents and thinking about them, and I said, in the middle of the conversation, "Come to think of it, I haven't heard from my grandma in a while. Maybe I should give her a call." Okay, we were having this conversation about our grandparents, and I realized in the middle of that conversation that I hadn't heard from my grandma. She hadn't called me for a while, so I thought, "Oh, come to think of it. I haven't heard from her for a while. Maybe I should call her. It just came up in my mind in the middle of the conversation.