Not much going on around here. It's cold, wet and miserable here in Chicago. The kids are making me nuts!! For whatever reason, I decided it would be a good idea to take them to the mall. I figured at least we wouldn't be sitting around the house all day, right?
Wrong!
My s3, pees his pants within minutes of being at the mall despite going before we left the house.
D1, spills her drink from lunch all over the stroller seat. I graciously give her my coat to sit on so she isn't sitting in cold wet sticky juice.
Just miserable in general. They hate shopping and in my haste to get out for awhile, I drag them anyway. I haven't been to the mall in weeks and now I remember why!!!!
H and I are going to a fundraiser tomorrow night. I was trying to find a new sexy outfit to wear. No luck with the little ones in tow.
My H has some interesting developments in his life. H had a pretty strange childhood. Parents divorced at 3, mom remarried at 5. Mom is a nutjob. Never allowed H's dad to go to b-ball games, etc. Called cops if he was 5 minutes late returning kids, accused H's D of sexually abusing his sis. Divorced 2nd H at 18 and left the state taking everything H had except some clothes and his comforter. Asks my H for any money he can give her to pay bills. He drains childhood savings account ($3500) and sends it to her. Visits a couple of months later and she used the money he sent to buy a new dining room set. Other stuff happens, he hasn't seen her or spoken to her in 12 years.
His mom had a child with stepdad. H's mom sold parental rights of child to stepdad for $25G. H hasn't seen sis in 12 years by request of stepdad. She recently got in touch with my H's other sis. They had dinner last night and expressed interest in seeing my H, meeting me and kids. H is cautiously optimistic. Doesn't want to get his hopes up and then have her leave his life again. Hopefully she'll give him a call soon. I think it would be good for him. It has always bothered him that he wasn't there to see her grow up.
Knowing all that about his mom explains a little about his behaviour, huh? Every now and again he brings up how he should probably be in counseling and all I can think is "Duh!!, do you really think you can have a totally psycho mother and not need a little therapy!!" All I ever say is "Probably"
Hope everyone is well,
Erin
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
-George Bernard Shaw
