It is becoming more and more difficult to leave the house.  I just feel safer here.  For that matter there are days that I just want to stay in my room.  Of course none of these things are options since I have three kids and I need to be functional.  I have learned how to hide a lot of this from them.  Today I wasn’t able to completely.

My youngest needed to go to the dentist for the first time.  And I needed to be there to comfort him.  I would never have left him to do that without me.  But it was in a place I have never been and I just couldn’t drive him there and get him checked in alone.  So my husband had to take time off of work so that he could drive and go in with us.  It all worked out.  But I see him slowly giving up on things.

Things like serving on our neighborhood association board.  Things like going out with his friends occasionally.  Things like staying at work every day all day long, instead of having to leave to bail his wife out of emotional distress.

So we made it through the dentist appt. and we are home, safe and sound.  So now who is going to go get the cat food?  Because I can’t.