Recurring Dream

i have this recurring bad dream that husband and i have gone out of the house somewhere -- dinner or a movie-- and the dream always starts when we're on our way home. i suddenly realize that we've left the kids home by themselves while we went out. i start freaking out, and husband says to relax, that they're sleeping and since they always sleep through the night they'll be fine.

and they always are. the point of the dream is never that the kids have been hurt by our neglect, simply that we made an incredibly poor choice. i feel guilty and worried that someone will find out about what we've done.

i've had this dream for years, since we've become foster parents. i guess every parent worries that they've made mistakes or been selfish or whatever it is that my dream is focused on. i don't sit around worrying about this stuff, but i guess it's in my subconscious somewhere.

silly dream.