Sistah Pat

Wish we had one.  Wish good old Perry and Drake would be in court with DS this morning.  Probably won’t be any drama though.  Just a courtroom check to make sure the kids are still alive and kickin.  I hope DS gets some decent visitation.  He’s decided to bring it up to the judge.  Once the judge sets visitation, I assume the flexibility is gone but that’s kind of beside the point since we’re the only ones being flexible.  As it stands now, he picks up the kids at 4:00 Monday through Friday, drives 20 miles to my house, has one hour with them and then has to leave so DIL can pick them up at 6:00.  It’s like taxi service.  He hasn’t been able to take them anywhere or do anything with them in ages. 

He and DH are going to Kansas tomorrow to deliver an amplifier they sold on ebay and I told her about it last Friday.  She waited until Tuesday afternoon to say, “I have to work Friday and the kids are off school.”  I said, “I told you, Stacy, he won’t be in town.”  She said, “Well, I have to work.”  I said, “I can keep them Friday on one condition.  I do not want to get up early on my day off.  When David picks them up from school on Thursday, they can spend the night and I’ll watch them Friday and you can pick them up Friday after you get off work.”  She said, “Okay.  That’ll work.”  No “Thank you”.  Just ”Okay, that’ll work.”  So…I’ll be babysitting on my day off tomorrow.  The kids are off school Monday and Tuesday and I have to work.  Don’t know what she’s going to do about that but I’m tired of always being the one to bring it up.  After the judge sets visitation today, I don’t think she’s going to be happy.  No matter what days or hours are set, she’s not going to be able to abuse it by letting me know when she’s going to need DS to babysit and not giving him visitation.  It’s a shame.  I hate to lose the flexibility but we’ve gone waaaay overboard with being accommodating  and she has absolutely refused to allow DS to have any quality time with the kids.

I have to get ready for work.  Yesterday, somebody started a fire in the trash can in the boys restroom and we had to stand outside for 1 1/2 hours until the smoke was all cleared out of the building.  Needless to say, kids were totally wired after that and just wanted to cut up the rest of the day.  They’re off school tomorrow so it’s going to be difficult to get any work out of them today as well.  Guess I’d better dress for success.