Been a busy day, got to bed late, up in time to get ready and head to the airport to pick up the kids and my mom. Went from the airport straight to church with my mom while S15 and S13 dropped us off and headed home to take showers. They pick my mom and I up after church and we headed to feast with the Bahais, my wife's religion. While I was there my wife sent me a txt msg with "boys happy to be home?" and I replied with "Ya, we're at feast", she sent back "Your mom too?" and I told her "Ya we just came from church" and got back from her "K Thanks"

Came home from feast and worked on the yard, grass is pretty long since I didn't get to mow it before leaving for Vegas.

I was in favor of the kids staying where they were, but they'd already been there 2 weeks, the whole trip was my wife's idea, not theirs and they'd stuck it out that long. They hardly saw or spent any time with their mom anyhow. I'm not going to force them to waste their time somewhere they're miserable. It just seems like it makes them pawns in the middle my wife and I's problems and I'm trying to not do that.

Anyhow kids are home, they're playing with their friends and are happy. My wife is back to no one to be responsible for or to be asking her for money. Everyone got what they wanted and I'm not going to complain about taking care of my kids, I'm basically a single father as I believe Rob pointed out a while back. I've done a good job of it and will keep doing it, my kids deserve to be taken care of as best I can until my wife decides to come home and do her part.

Church was great today, came home feeling better than ever, still very much able to control my emotions instead of my emotions controlling me. Still hopeful, putting my faith in God, I know he can heal my wife's heart and our marriage, just trying to have patience and do my part along the way. No idea what I'll be doing next weekend yet, Sat is our anniversary, she is supposed to see if she can get the day off work to go to a baseball game, not sure if she'll even try now that the kids are here and I don't need to drive down there to get them.

Thanks for your comments HS and ST,
-JDK


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