Special Mom’s blog

I have written about my son’s anxiety. I would say OCD maybe the cause of his anxiety or is it vice vera? Anyway these are the co morbid conditions or pain he has to undergo.

Anyway, we have a shoe rack in our entrance hallway. The hallway as such is small but the rack is long and can accommodate nearly 10 to 12 pairs of shoes. Now that our house is being painted I really want to move that thing away since we have a coat closet (that can accommodate a shoe rack).

To begin with not only my boy, my husband was even against it. Why do we need to move something that is so comfortable. Then, the wall was painted yesterday and the rack was moved away. My husband got thrilled seeing the beautiful wall. He decided that was not the place for our dirty shoes and moved the rack to the garage. He wanted no part of the shoe rack.

OCD is hard. Anxiety is even harder. We had prepared my boy so much but he was unable to take that change. All the fun of painting went out the door yesterday night. He had a huge meltdown and in fact a panic attack. He was having such a good day, we never expected this meltdown. So, my husband bought the rack back upstairs.

We did make multiple changes in his room and he slowly and steadily accepted it. In fact he helped us when we changed his desk and when we changed the sheets to match the color of his room. I think my ego got boosted and I became overconfident.

My mind is made up to move the shoe rack and my husband’s too. So we will make another attempt in moving it. But we will move slowly this time. We will respect my boy and see to it he accepts our point of view.

I want this to be done by the end of the week. If I do not do it, maybe the rack stays? Let’s see what happens. Keeping fingers crossed!