AT, you be sure to let us all know how the dishes thing turns out, I know I'll be sleepless until I get the full scoop. You two kill me! Tonight I had to pick the kids up at W's place and therefore had to wait about half an hour while oldest got ready, youngest was in the living room dancing and I sat down on the couch, suddenly the tears started flowing down my face. I felt so sad to be sitting in my old home where my whole life has been for 17 years and know I'm not there anymore. My D10 ran over and put her arms around me and asked what was wrong, I said "I miss you guys, your mom and our home" and she replied "you'll always have me and D13, Dad" after drying my tears I said "there are so many good memories here, sweetie" and she hugged me harder and said "you will soon have memories in your new home too, Daddy" I almost laughed out loud, she's such a little adult sometimes. You know, I think it was OK for her to see her Dad shedding tears over loss, I told her "I'm OK, we all need to cry sometimes when sad things happen and this was very sad" Btw, W was not home. On a more playful note, I took D10 to the doctors tonight, she has a bad cough. One of the nurses was asking me how I was and we chatted for a few minutes. She then said "your D's are both bigger than I am now!" and I said "you're still such a young woman you've still got time to catch up!" She laughed. I then started talking to her in Chinese and she started giggling loudly. Another nurse asked "what did he just say to you?" and she said "He told me to be a good girl and eat my rice" She then looked me directly in the eyes and said "that is soooo cute!" So I guess Whatis has still got it, but in reality I never really did have it so I don't know where the heck this is all coming from. Oh, another positive to report. W had water problems at home and I have refrained from rushing over and trying to fix it, even though I probably know what the problem is. She isn't asking for my opinion or help so I'm staying out of it. You can't imagine how hard that is for me! It's one way I showed how much I cared but it got me nowhere so I'm refraining, as hard as it is. It's my family I still want to care for them so badly but what is is. Later Dbers
