Moving Forward,......taking baby steps.

[~Sol]

Oh, I was tempted to help her with some money for missing out on a day of work last Sunday to be with me at a friend's house. Then I changed my mind - she needs to learn and experience what it's like to live independent of me. She chose to go, when she knew she needed to sleep that day and work that night. She missed out on work, now she is working on her night off to make up for it.

Her choices. I told myself that I am not going to give her a penny while she lives her own life apart and is realizing the reality of the true cost of living by yourself. I am trying to pay all the bills here at home, I don't need to help her pay hers.

I'm a sucker for helping people, and she complains that I don't like to do anything and I'm a boring person? I think she knows my capacity to care - she just hates it when she can't have her way - like me not agreeing on her plans to make OM my brother-in-law with her younger sis. She'll still lash out at me when she sees me making a change.....like buying groceries for myself and actually cooking real food - she hates that I am able to cook now, and brings up something negative from the past.

I am just looking at her thinking.....it must be really miserable being on that side of the island.

Oh, I am taking my daughter someplace fun this weekend, probably on Sat evening. I still want to make an all day trip to the Aquarium with her and look at the sharks and other exotic creatures. It's a blast hanging out with an 8 year old and doing the things kids love to do!