Category: Custody
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Rounding out November in STYLE
It’s been a rough week in our house. Thanksgiving Day was a marvelous feast thanks to my wife’s amazing cooking. We relaxed, watched the parade in the morning, and I was on top of the clean up all afternoon. We were ahead and everything went really well. Then Friday happened…My wife and Girl set out…
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Emotional Labor
Today is Boy #3’s 13th birthday. Since this is the first birthday since the divorce that the ex is in town, there were some new considerations to think about. Boy #3 wanted to invite the ex over for dinner and cake but that wasn’t really what we wanted to do. Since the divorce, the ex…
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On Defense
(This is from my draft folder that I never finished back in early January and posted. I thought it would be interesting to try to finish it up with more than 9 months of time since I first started writing the entry.) I had an appointment with my psychiatric nurse practitioner today. It was a…
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The day money made me angry
After my great success with doing my own VA claim, I decided to help out the squatter with theirs. It took me a long time, but I still worked hard. I went through the exact same process I did for mine: multiple and thorough reviews of the medical file, multiple lists of what I found,…
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Hard conversations
Tomorrow I am going to have that super serious conversation with the ex. I have already drafted my list of concerns and points I need to make. I actually feel really good about this conversation. Although I plan to use some of the same language from the healthy relationships program my dad and I did…
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Kentucky, coming and going
Yesterday we had to take the kids halfway to FL to send them off with their other parent. 7 hours there, and 8 hours back, a little rain both ways, but nothing too terrible. What was the strangest part is all the packing they had to do and how we had to make sure we…
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Sick kid…again
Girl is sick. Boy #3 was sick two weeks ago. I was sick twice in the last 6 weeks, as was my wife. Boy #2 was sick in the same span of time, but not severe enough to need much of anything from me. He handled his own symptoms just fine. But man, these past…
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Holiday Planning
The holidays are rapidly approaching and there are so many plans to be made. When do the kids go to see their father? What do we want to give them? What do we want to give each other? Who all are we buying for this year? What might they like? Do we want to travel…
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Heart of Steel
I am an empath. I remember the day I started being able to feel other people’s emotions. I was young, watching the first Christopher Reeve “Superman” movie. There’s a part where his dad on earth dies and his mother is heartbroken and he decides it’s time to leave home. I think I was like 7…