What dreams may come

[multipurposegoddess]

I had a terrible and weirdly detailed dream this morning, in between glancing at the alarm clock to see what time it was at 6:30 and actually getting up at 8:30. I was living next door to this family, the parents were both alcoholics and kind of sadly aware of their problem but not enough to, you know, quit drinking and all that. They had two young sons and a slightly older foster child. The foster kid got to go to school most of the day and was checked on by some children's services organization and that kept the household in better shape than if it wasn't happening. The youngest kid was just starting to talk, and adorable. The middle child was basically staying home to take care of his younger brother and try to keep the house livably clean - I think he was 10 or so. The husbands ex-wife was in a lesbian relationship, and pregnant, and her girlfriend was also an alcoholic though she was more in denial about and hid it better than the neighbors did. It was all just horrible and frustrating and dream!me didn't know what to do.

I have no idea where any of that came from. Certainly not yesterday's wedding, which was really lovely. I'm hoping throwing it up here will get it out of my head, because I don't like having it in there.