I went to my house today, the one across from the kids school, about ten minutes before school was out, so that I could walk over and pick D8 to take her to get her hair cut. I had pre-arranged this with W the day before. Within thirty seconds of my arrival, W shows up in her car, so that she can park there as well to get the kids. Normally, she just drives through the pick-up line. OK.....
So, I start walking over, not really sure what she's going to do, and she ends up walking right along with me. Light chat, nothing to speak of really. The kids are once again surprised to see us together, especially to pick them up. So were several of the teachers and other parents. We get them, and the five of us walk back to the cars together, just like we were actually a family. Kids wanted to go to Jamba Juice and asked me for some cash. For whatever reason, I didn't have any on me, so I met them all there after hitting the ATM. I asked W if she had any cash (I was wondering why kids were asking me) and she said no and that her car is out of gas, and she has no money. So I gave her $100 and suggested that she put together her bills and whatnot for us to go over. She didn't ask me to do this, I suggested.
Ss10 has a father-son basketball game tonight at 5:00. His bio-dad is going and is playing in the game. Sidenote; I'm glad that Ss10 has a decent enough relationship with his dad, but it irks me that he only gets involved with him for sports. Ss10 is in fifth grade and his dad has never gone on a field trip, and until this year, never attended a teacher conference. Oh yeah, he keeps clear when the $15k tuition bill (each) comes in. Anywho, W suggests that I come to the game and drop off D8 (and stay for the game as well). I do just that, and sit far away from her. Not that I'm really having to avoid her at this point, but I'm not going to interfere with her "space" either. Afterwards, just said a couple things to her, told her I'll meet her tomorrow morning at the dentist (she's taking the boys in) and said bye. I got out of there without her getting any "pursuit" from me. Not that I'm really acting "as if", simply because I don't feel that way, don't want to fake it, and she'd see right through it anyway.
