You are going to make me cry Cristi.

I feel like I am being pictured like a - itch but I know in my heart that I have tried to work with this man in seeing his daughter.

Anyway- BREATHE.,..........I have been venting all morning - lol.

Now he will NOT meet tomorrow. Instead he says he will write a letter to the judge stating my unwillingness to let him see Gaby.
He thinks his weekends started already.

I asked my lawyer yesterday "when does this start??" He said "when the judge signs the order and you are served it.".....

So, my understanding was there is no order yet. Mike also said when I said there was no order yet........."we don't have to wait for the court" for visits to start.

Will,,,,,,,,_ itch that I am I want an order. lol

Anyway, he doesn't want to meet tomorrow now. I offered him my car seat because he doesn't have one and I am buying a new one when I get the refund this week,,,,,,,,,,,but he turned that down.
I offered him to see her next weekend to see her at a park,.,,,,he hasn't said anything on that yet.

He seems to just want to come and take her...........no tought to her and how she is going to feel after all this time.

Anyway, I have a ZIT on my face and feel like a bug under a rock - lol.....yelled at Rocky , yelled at my mom............need to chill and go enjoy my weekend.

Vent - vent,,,,,,,,,,,anyway THANKS!!!! Better get.....

Well I see no one is on today!! Hope you're all having a great Sunday.

Not sure what I'm doing yet...thinking of heading up to Eugene to do some shopping.

Anyway...I will check in later on and see if anyone has popped in.

Talk to you later

I'm finally checking in... :)

Marti - I've had a terrible cold, and when the medicine is about to fade, I feel so crappy! <whine> Here's something that made me feel better, though. Katie and I made plans to go to Chicago over her Spring break. I always wanted to take my kids there to visit. DS is taking his family this summer, and Mary and I will go later. But Katie and I are taking the Amtrak train up, and are staying downtown, at the Hyatt Regency, on the Magnificent Mile. I got a great rate! Anyway, it's fun making plans for trips, isn't it? When do you and James leave?

Hi to everyone else. :wave: Hope you're all having a great weekend! See you later!

Hello wonderful Jaded Ladies. I have not forgotten you and hope you still know who I am.
My life has taken a turn, so much is wrong. I almost hate to talk about it for fear more will pile on.
As you know we were in Las Vegas at our winter place. We planned to go back to IN the end of March. The week after I got back to LV from visiting my DD in CA I got an urgent call that my brother was very ill in FL. He actually only had 6 months to live at the most. While I was trying to work out when to go there we got a call that DH's brother, who we knew was ill, had taken a bad turn and might not make it. We managed to get a quick flight (a red eye..so no sleep that night) and got back to IN bright and early on Mon. morning. Went straight to the hospital and spent most of the day and the next day there. He did pull through, thank you God. The next day I got a call that MY brother was in kidney failure. I grabbed another quick flight and was in FL by 4 that afternoon. I have never packed so quickly in my life. I spent 8 days down there and drove back and forth from Mom's (a 6 hour trip) twice. Once they got my brother able to go home I spent a little more time then I came home. I must say I was beat when I finally got into my own bed. The dr. has now said that he is failing so quickly it will not be 6 months. I plan to go back to FL in two weeks for a few days. It is so hard to be there and so hard NOT to be there. I talked to him today and he is very weak. My heart is breaking.
My brother-in-law is in re-hab and trying to get strong enough to go home. He has been told he should have 4 years with his bone cancer. I just can't wrap my mind around all of this.
I feel like I have spent the last month in airplanes, hospitals and cars on I-75. Well, I guess that is because I HAVE. (actually not even a month since all this has happened)
I did manage to get the laundry caught up and all the ironing done this week-end. Changed the beds and washed that all up. Mostly I just tried to un-wind...tried. My 15 year old DGS spent the night last night and was a comfort. I had not seen him since he moved here from CA before I went to CA...so we just missed each other. He has come to live with my DD and her husband here to escape the bad school and gang activity in his area. Not to mention he was fighting with his Mom. His grades have already improved alot...from failing to C's, B's and even an A.

I have been reading here and trying to catch up on the happenings of the JL's but won't try to do individuals right now.

Please keep my family in your thoughts..... I can use all the good vibes I can get.

Sue

It's Monday again!

Sue - (((HUGS))) to you, friend. So sorry about your brother and your BIL. I'm going through the same thing with my BIL! He hasn't long for this world - cancer everywhere. Every few weeks he goes in the hospital w/infection and I know one of these times, he won't be coming back out. Actually, he's there again now. My sister and him, as well as their only child and 2 granchildren are planning a trip to the mountains in 2 weeks. He wants to see them again one more time. Too sad.... Anyway, Sue, so glad you are back! I thought you should have been back from LV by now. Hopefully, you will get a good rest before things escalate once more. Remember that we're here for you, ok?

Ellen - you are missed! Please pop in when you can, ok?

Hello to Marti, Cristi, Angie, Katy, Susan, Katiecat, luckycharm, Jenn, Mindee, Julie, Carree and Pam. Hope I didn't leave out anyone. :)

Neal is on Spring break this week. Too bad it can't be the same week as Katie! But we've got some fun things planned. Today we're going to pick up a few things we need for house repairs. That's a never-ending job, right?

BBL,

Good morning Ladies

Sue, I am sorry about your family. Worse yet being pulled in different directions...

Susan, you are handling this a whole lot better then I would be. Would be nice if he would stop being such a butt head and let you and Gabster live a good life,,,and if it means away from him,,,well so be it.

Jane, have fun doing your repairs,,,I remember Monte taking time off work and us doing repairs...gawd it was like opening a can of worms. *shudder Oen thing led to another and all of a sudden we are repairing many many things..and of course the cost went from $500. to adding a 0 at the end of that...*gulp

This weekend was a tough one, I went to Sylvan to my old boss' home for a memorial. Hadn't seen anyone is over 2 years. So when I walked in,,many were shocked. I didn't have my shoes off and I was ina huge group hug with everyone sobbing. It wasn't all tears, we had alot of laughs. The crazy stuff we did.
Drank too much and almost crawled back to my mom's. And with 3 hours of sleep I drove back to Calgary and to rehearsal, Yesterday was a LONNNG day.

Well I should get ready for work...
have a great day ladies.

Susan~(((((HUGS))))) I wish there was something I could do. Too bad you can't just take Gaby and leave! If I were you I would get a stinking tape recorder and every time Mike starts this BS I would tape him. He is playing games and what is stupid is he is hurting Gaby in the process, not helping or coming off as a caring parent trying to be involved. You are going out of your way only for him to be a butthead. I hope he wakes up soon and realizes what he is doing. Anyway, try not to get too stressed about it, I know...easier said than done.

Sue~so sorry to hear about your family members. (((((HUGS))))) to you all. Glad to see you back at 3fc!

Marti~that's why we finally bought a house. I wanted to do things to the house we were in before but we were just renting. Of course too, the house was over 100 years old so there wasn't a whole lot we could have done to it. Never did care for fixing up someone else's house. A week left before your trip, are you counting the days?! DD and I are headed to AR next weekend (the 18th we are leaving) for 4 or 5 days. I have been meaning to get back there for a while and am finally going to do it. Of course I forgot about Spring break for the schools and people traveling. Oh well...make sure you guys take lots of pics to share.

Angie~hope you are feeling fine. Jeez, girly, three hours of sleep?! I would be dead.

Jane~hope you are feeling better. Man, I had a stinking cold for what seemed like a month. Didn't think it would ever go away.

This past weekend was so nice and we got so much done, plus went to the garden show to get ideas and a few other places. Didn't make it to church sunday was pooped from sat. Instead did some yard work-dug up my roses and put them on the side of the house. Keeping my fingers :crossed: they don't die. Now to decide what to replace them with-will be some type of shrub just not sure what. Anyway...had errands to run this am-chiro, apply for a job, took the santa fe in for my first oil change and had the tires rotated-hit 4000 miles Friday. So now I am trying to catch up on emails and laundry. So guess I better get going or nothing is going to get done. See ya later ladies :wave: Take care and have a great day!

Hello girls--

Great weather here...it was up to 73 here in Cottage Grove. Amazing difference from other years! (I'm hoping the weather is just as nice in SF next week!)

Jane--Hope you're feeling better. Your trip to Chicago sounds like so much fun! Spring is in the air and I think everyone is wanting to get out of the house and enjoy it all! At least you and Neil can spend time together during his Spring break.

Sue--I'm so sorry to hear about your family! Of coarse they will be in our thoughts and prayers! I hope you get a chance to go home and relax a little. ((((((Hugs to you!!))))))

Angie--Three hours is hard to get by on then have to have a full day afterwards. I hope you get to catch up on your sleep!

Cristi--You and DD are planning a trip too! How fun!! You take pictures too! I told James that I want to bring both camera's...the digital and the 35mm. I love the digital camera, but I don't always get around to printing any of them....and he has a great camera that takes great pictures. One week to go and I'm excited!

This weekend I mowed my lawn. I did the front yard and left the back. James was back there pampering our car....giving it it's weekly wash! :D And I didn't want to mow wet grass. Our neighbor next door always seems to manage to come out and just sit and watch me mow my lawn up front. I hate that. There has got to be something more entertaining than watching me mow!! He's an older man and his wife finally got him to go inside. Gives me the creeps sometimes.

I've got some cleaning to do....never ends in my house and there is only the two of us!!

Talk to you all later!

Very sorry to hear about all the health issues with your family Sue. Just a heartbreak and my HUGS to you and your family.


Just popping in for a second. It is funny but Mike is right. His visitation started on the 5th and when the judge rules from the bench it is binding at that time.

That in an email from my lawyer. Who I will state again said when asked by me " when does it start".......lawyer said "when the judge signs the order".

Lawyer denies this now but I don't care. I am glad Gaby stayed with me over the weekend - to crap on the legal system.

I did get my tax refund and though I can't splurge I can buy Gaby a new car seat!

Anyway, I am upset so I will go. If I could run I would but in the end the court would see that as something horrible and Mike wins.......UGH.....can you believe this?? I can't ,,,,,,

just popping in to let Sue know that I have been thinking about her and I will continue to keep her and her family in my thoughts and prayers.

a little update: Brandon is hopefully doing better with his sleep schedule! We are thinking that it is due to the two teeth that he is trying to push through.