The girls finish teaching the new routine two hours before practice ends. Gleefully, they announce that we can all go home early. I watch them pack their things and call their rides. Thirty minutes later, everyone is gone, and I leave the school.
While driving home, a horrible daymare floods my thoughts. I imagine arriving at the daycare to find the building empty. I wander the deserted halls and find that everyone has disappeared. Papers are strewn all over the place.The phone is beeping off the hook. The baby room is strangely silent and Bri is gone.
I shake my head and clear my thoughts. Of course, Bri is just fine when I arrive. She’s happily swinging and chewing on a toy. But this isn’t the only kind of daymare that I’ve had. Sometimes, it’s about family members being hurt, teaching gangstas, or Hubs getting injured on the job. My overactive imagination creates these mini-horror flicks quite frequently. Usually, they’re pretty intense.
Does this sort of thing happen to you? Maybe I’m naive in thinking that everybody does this. What are your daymares?
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Yes I’ve had them. In times of stress I have them more often. When I was younger it would always be about something happening to my parents. Now it is always about something bad happening to the kids or Hubby.
Mine are usually of a stranger in the house but not with dh. Someone robbing the house or waiting to kill me.
After a neighborhood fire that distroyed the entire house, I daydream that I will come home to a burnt down house.
Oh, honey, I have these all the time. TERRIBLE ones. They are so terrible I can hardly believe I can think up the stuff. Always about something awful happening to the kids.
My daymares happen when one of my daughter’s is not home and my phone rings or someone knocks on the door. Before answering either I preparer myself for the worst that could possibly happen.
I don’t have vivid daymares like that, thanks be to God, because that sounds like it would be awful. I have fleeting moments of, “Oh God, what if…” but they are rarely accompanied by full-color images in my mind.
Yes, I’ve had thoughts like this all my life but they have got much worse since I became a mother. I am so glad you mentioned this, I thought it was only me!
Daisie xxx
How awful…I sometimes have them, too. Mostly about kids, hubby, or family members being in accidents, terminally ill etc. I try to use it as a prompt to pray but they are awful and feel very real.
I have these too sometimes. I have to really stop myself and turn my thoughts elsewhere. It’s amazing how ridiculous they can get so quickly! You’re not alone.
I’ve had these before, at one point they got really bad and I would worry like crazy. But then I shared them with J one day and I found that that really helped. Knowing that you aren’t alone in having them and sharing them with someone usually makes me feel better. I then realize how futile they are. But also, how we shouldn’t worry so much as well.
I even had a nightmare last night…woke up at 4:51 and had been dreaming that another snake had bit one of my dogs!
See ya soon!