I was barely gone a week to San Diego but as I walked around the house when I arrived back in Carson City, I found the strangest configuration of items throughout the house. It seems odd to me that there were so many as she had hours of caregiver service each day in residence with her while I was away. It makes me wonder if they just watched her as she made things up and let her be or if they were unaware. I guess it would keep confrontations to a minimum to not address them with her but the least that could have been done was to walk behind her and undo her doings! It seems it was left to me to go around undoing all her creations and collections.

Case in point is that I found my iPad charger chord tied to a small dog harness, as if it had been used as a leash. Did this just go unnoticed or did she make this one when she was alone? I went to put trash in my bedroom trashcan last night and it had disappeared. A hunt around the house found it behind the couch in the family room.  Almost every outdoor cushion and pillow was stacked in the house or under the porch. The cat bowls were filled with uncooked rice and she had placed every pair of reading glasses she owns in a pile on one of her dressers. Her purse was under a pillow in her bedroom with all of Timmy’s stuffed animal toys lined up in front. I found a small dog bed with a shirt over it on a dining room chair.

I am not sure if this is Moms way of keeping busy or if she gets anxious and starts to walk around trying to make sense of her confusing world when patterns get changed. I know my comings and going can create extra stress for her so I have to imagine that contributes to the escalation of these strange behaviors.

One thing I immediately did when I arrived home and began to notice all the creations was to throw away my toothbrush I had left in the holder in my bathroom….not taking any chances on what that may have been used for while I was gone!