Sometimes I wish I COULD get away more. I work from home... and the majority of problems started with my unemployment and me being home all the time. I started noticing things I never noticed before because now I'm home and everything I see is day in day out and I notice immediately if something's out of place, missing, etc. Needless to say, I'd catch her doing sneaky stuff because I'd notice things amiss. Things a parent working away from home would never catch. Boy, she looks at me like "HOW'D you notice THAT?" And I don't know myself. Observant?

I do get out and I finally have my own set of friends around me. Thank God. Without a support network, I'd be completely insane by now. Even though my friends can't relate -- either childless, with young babies, or their kids are grown and married.... they still help listen to me vent!