Kids Will Be Back Early
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| Thu, 07-10-2008 - 6:00pm |
Yay! The boys will be coming back home a week or so early! They left around mid-June for their summer visit with their dad... and was to come back sometime during that first full week of August. Now the ex calls and he says he "needs to" bring the boys back by June 26th. So they will be back about 1.5-2 weeks sooner! That's only about 2 weeks away!
Yikes that I had all these plans to repaint rooms and all that... and now I'm not sure if I will be able to before they get back! Between my Dad getting sick around the time they left, to my being out of town, and then Hiker wanting to date "all the time" (lol)- I haven't done all the things I had thought I might do while they were gone.
Apparently his reasoning is that they changed his chemo schedule, and he is trying to avoid making the road trip on his chemo week, because he is totally sick. Which I can understand. But it's just poor timing that he suggests the change in the kid exchange schedule on the same phone call where the first thing he tells me is "The kids don't listen!!!!" and he was in a mad state about what to do with them. He was pissed and he'd already taken away all their electronics and didn't know what else to do.
LOL on my end... but stifled. Because I was thinking "welcome to parenting, mister," as I've been there many times. And it's ABOUT TIME that he gets a dose of the non-fun aspects of being the dad. He's the Disney Dad so much of the time... so I found some sick satisfaction in all of this. The kids will survive without their electronics, believe me. Although they might ACT like they are dying of boredom... they WILL survive. But I know my ex would cave to the whining if they whined about it. He'd cave just to shut them up. I'm not sure if they did or not, as I didn't talk to them again the rest of the day, but hopefully it worked out okay for them.
I just talked to them a minute ago, and MonkeyButt had called to tell me he pulled out one of his teeth. I think he should be pretty much done with the baby teeth by now! But yikes that he felt it coming loose during lunch, and it was bugging him, so this afternoon, he just reached in there and yanked it out. Ewww! But more power to him I guess!
Guess Hiker and I had better make the best of our free time while we still can, because we'll have to juggle again by the end of the month!
~shrimpy
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You know, this post is very funny to me - in a good way of course. Because I think I, and most here, can relate to a few of the things you point out
- such that his timing of announcing he is bringing them back early coincided with the same report that they are getting on his nerves and don't listen. Hello summer and real life with kids all the time!
- that he is learning about life beyond DWD (Disney World Dad)
Mine does the same many times - I think he wanted a date on the Saturday he returns from his trip so he MADE SURE I am here at 7PM on the Saturday they return so he can drop him off on the way back from the airport!!
And when mine had to have his house recarpeted he had to bring him here because he had no where for him to sleep. Or one day he had to work. Okay - so what do you think I would do in those instances.
Sometimes I think they look at their own kids like rental cars - take them out for a spin and when you tire of them bring them back home to mom who always has to have an answer for everything!! But that is all good - I wouldn't want him competing with me for time - so I keep QUIET!! And I know you see it the same way, Shrimps!!
You better get painting fast!! LOL!!
Great update Shrimps!
LOL about "Welcome to parenting, mister". Isn't that amusing how so many exs only wake up to the daily ins and outs and trials of parenting when they have for more than three days?
I hope you make the best of your remaining time with Hiker and your free time. I'm glasd you have had some good quality couple time wihile the kids were away. I'm sure you will be happy to see the clan back though :o)
And yes- go get painting!!
Sometimes I think they look at their own kids like rental cars - take them out for a spin and when you tire of them bring them back home to mom
Well said!
I'm really glad you're getting your boys back, and it is nice to get validation that day-to-day parenting isn't always a trip to the park.