Mental Health Day... sort of

We took today off of work. Partly because 1)I think I've got the flu, or else its a really bad cold and I'm all overly medicated and 2)its a sad anniversary day today today so yesterday I could barely function because my mind is elsewhere anyhow so how would I even function today at work? and 3)therapy went SO badly last night that I can barely think of anything else so we have GOT to have a lot of time to work inside together today to get ourselves back together. Or maybe I will just sleep all day and try not to throw up.
I feel like such a failure in therapy. Things go so well when Caroline, Jo, Mae, or even Missy go talk to our therapist. When I'm there, I screw things up EVERY time. It scares me away from going back. So I don't know why I keep trying to go back, myself. I should just let one of them go every time. I think it'll be a while before I try to make another appearance.
We've been trying to make Mae more comfortable with Halloween. We've been in the craft store twice this month around the Halloween displays. Its been really, really scary for all of us though but still didn't run off and she didn't start crying. Last week she colored a scarecrow at school. For 2 weeks we had a little pumpkin in the house. Yesterday she colored a pumpkin page for our therapist. She made it all rainbow colored. We did mention that pumpkins are usually orange-ish colored, but you know what, if coloring it rainbow helps her be more comfortable with a Halloween symbol, then she can make it as rainbowy as she wants.

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