While I have heard the comment, “You’ve got a touch of OCD, don’t you?” more than once, it wasn’t until I became a mother that the preference for the well-known became a real hindrance. When my daughter began to show the same fear for newness that I saw in myself at her age, I didn’t know how to handle it. I had never been on this end of it before.

So, in the spirit of all things new, I am  “branching out” as the therapists and self-helpers and other cool kids like to call it and I’m sharing all about it on Scary Mommy…