Saturday, 24 January 2009

• Random catch up

  I am joyfully back from my minor mental melt down, so I thought I would do a quick catch up on what has been happening while I was gone.

  I hear that we have a new president and I am thrilled. In all honesty, I did not watch the inauguration only because life was pulling me in many different directions that day and I forgot it was happening. Hard to believe, I know, but true. The kids all watched it at school so I got a complete rundown as soon as they got home.

  We are signing our new lease Monday morning and are hoping for a move in of March 1st. It will depend on the new management company if they are willing to hold out that one extra week or if they want us in at 30 days. We are not required to give our landlord thirty days notice in light of the situation, but they have been wonderful to us and we want to show the same respect to them. Technically, thirty days would be about a week prior to March 1st, but then we have to prorate rent and such. For the sake of keeping it simple, we are pushing for that extra week.

  Emily is still progressing on her walking. It is a huge show each time she decides to walk and we all must drop everything and applaud her progress.

  Matt and I have reached a tentative understanding with regards to Josh. It took some intense moves on my part (and I mean "moves" literally) to get him to see my point of view, but I think we might be on the same page finally. I pretty much told him that this had gone on long enough and that no matter how much I loved him, I would not subject myself or our children to this any longer and then I left for the night. I have never done anything quite like that before, but I meant what I said. About an hour after I left he called and agreed to seek out professional help. I didn't do that to get a response, I did it because I simply couldn't take the situation any longer. Here is hoping that he stays true to his word and we see some positive changes for our family.

  The children were once again supposed to go to their mom's this weekend. In an almost identical situation as last week, we received a phone call two hour prior to her arrival saying she would not be coming. She didn't  even have the courage to make the call herself; her mother called for her. As of this writing; the children have not heard from her what her reasons for not coming were this time. They have all taken it in stride; it isn't the first time she has bailed and it certainly won't be the last.

  I was worried that something like this would happen. When she was dating her soon to be ex husband, she spent quite a bit of time with the children in her quest to show her boyfriend what a wonderful mother she was. When he was stationed on the East Coast, we began to see her follow through with the visits less and less. In the wake of the pending divorce; she has resorted back to her old ways and is looking out for herself first.

  I am going to spend today packing up some things that we aren't going to need over the next month. I am very excited about the move. It is times like this that coming from a blue collar family really comes in handy. Matt's uncle is coming over to help us paint a few of the rooms that were painted a color that I just dislike immensely. His brother in law is going to help us lay some carpet as well. I plan on tackling the yard and putting my own stamp on the place. It is need of flowers and some bushes.

  Since we have such a nice flat yard now, I am going to finally be able to purchase a swing set for the kids. I am hoping to find one of the wooden sets for fairly cheap, but I will take one of those old style from Wal-Mart if the right one doesn't come along. I have a new project for Craigslist. Yay!!

  Have a great weekend!!

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