Willing to be disturbed...

[ediemarie]

YAY! For Christmas break! Ah, the perks of being an educator. I spent 10 years in the business world before teaching and this is one major perk - getting paid to read novels and hang out with high school students is the real perk - the vacations just add to it.

Christmas was good, overall. We spent Saturday to Tuesday morning with my family and then we went to H's family for Tuesday and we were supposed to stay over night there - more on that later.

Over the summer when H abadoned me 2 or 3 times in the middle of the night and I was beginning to get fed up with his antics, I was bound and determined to leave him if he didn't leave his job/ow. During this time my Dad called him about 15 times to try to reach out to him to let him know that everyone was pulling for us and for him. He really wanted to be supportive. Well, H never returned my Dad's phonecalls and since then there has been complete silence between the two of them. Neither of them would do anything to fix the relationship (they used to be pretty close). Anyway, I was more than nervous about Christmas weekend - 4 days with my folks and H and Dad weren't talking???!! But H pulled through and the week before Christmas he called my Dad. Crises averted - Christmas was saved - yay!!!

During this same time (over the summer), H's mom was trying to reach him too. H had decided that he didn't want to speak with her either. There was just too much pressure coming from every angle and he chose to bury his head in the sand and not return her calls. Well, he never cleared the air with her prior to Christmas so Christmas day resulted in a huge argument between H and his mom in between turkey dinner and pecan pie. H was so fed up he said that's it, we're going home. Em, grab your bags and let's go. So before I could even taste the pecan pie I made for dessert we were in the car heading home. yick.

I must admit,MIL isn't my most favorite person, and I was looking forward to sleeping in my own bed, so I wasn't that heartbroken about their argument. Plus, it really had nothing to do with me - I should have taken some pie for the trip home. It sucks that it had to come to that, but I was proud of h. MIL was upset that we spent so much time at my parents - H said, "I've put her through hell, Mom, if she wants to spend all week with her folks I'll let her. She gets to choose. Not me. It's the least I can do." I thought that was so sweet. I lost all respect for MIL last May when she told H that noone wanted him when she was pregnant and she serioulsy considered putting him up for adoption. She's pretty selfish.

Gosh this is so rabmly - sorry. H and I are just hanging out this week. I have some aunts and uncles to visit this week and I plan on really cleaning the house - that will be nice.

I hope you all are doing well!
Em