When I turned my phone off after landing I had a txt msg from my wife that said "fly S15 from here to home tomorrow." I called my wife when I got home and she said to book a flight for S15 to fly home on the same flight as my mom in the morning. She also said to find out of S13 was coming at the same time or not since if he did then I wouldn't need to drive down there next weekend. I told her I'd check with the kids and get it figured out. It is $500 to book them flights for the two of them tomorrow and she started talking about how they've been sucking cash out of her, she has given them $1000 since they got there, they don't need to come visit anymore, they don't need to go anywhere else except camp with her next month, guess she has to save her money to give her 55 yr old sister a free boob job instead of spending any money on her kids... Trying to not be bitter or negative, didn't say anything to her, just listened, validated, "yes dear, yes dear, you're right dear, yes dear"
Anyhow the one variable in the plans for the kids was whether S13 wanted to come home early and whether his friend that they've been staying with for the past 2 weeks is coming here to visit. That had beent the original plan, plus some other friend was coming, that is why I was driving to pick them up so the 4 kids could ride back instead of paying to fly them all here. So if their friend wasn't coming (one friend already bailed so it was down to just one now) then S13 would come back with S15 tomorrow, otherwise I'd still drive down next weekend and pick them up. The other motivations for me driving down there that weekend were, my anniversary on Sat and also to visit friends and family that live there. My wife was the first to suggest "I wouldn't have to drive down there at all if the kids flew back" and she have never mentioned our anniversary and wasn't planning to be in the same town as me on it. She is flying here for 5 days on July 2nd, two days after our anniversary and I don't know if she'd want to do anything if I was there, I was just providing the opportunity, especially based on the previous belief from her that we were "working on our marriage." So anyhow, ya, I'd drive there 8 hrs each way for the sole purpose of seeing my wife on our anniversary, but doubt that it will come to that, it'd be a waste of my time and my heart at this point.
So $500 to book tickets for the kids, and now I have to buy a flight for my mom to go home too, she was going to ride back with me next weekend when I drove to pick up the kids so she only bought a one-way ticket, another $200 for that. Would have been nice for my wife to offer to pay the $500 to sent the kids back since it was all her idea to take them there for 3 weeks and her that decided that they could come back early. I told S15 earlier that if his mom would pay for the ticket he could come, but then she just tells me to book it with no mention of paying for it. I just continue to bend over and take it for my kids and for my marriage. Whatever, when I run out of money she can pay up then I guess.
