As far as Mitch if a man could act as you report with staying power that would be a fine combo indeed.
You said a mouth full there luvvy. I definately need a man with staying power!
Have a great time with your daughter this summer and scuba. I've booked a trip to Key Largo in July for a week long scuba trip with a bunch of friends who are advanced divers--SO psyched!!!
I'm so happy I brought up some sweet thoughts and plans for you. It can happen if its what you truly want. SOme of the girls out here where I'm visiting are off to Tuscany in Sept. Boy, do I wish I were one of them.
"I think about moving out west sometimes. Where there the ocean and mountains feed my soul. I love Oregon and in fact my mom and I want to go out there together this summer and maybe look at some property. It would be a huge upheaval for the children and I don't think I'm ready for it quite yet, but then again, what am I waiting for?"
OK, I'll bite. You are waiting to prove to yourself that you are the better parent because Mitch moved and you didn't. You secretly think in some small way that it will be giving-in/losing to move.
But, guess what. You don't have to prove that you are a tremendous mother that way. You ARE the better parent, and the thing is, if YOU move, your kids will be with you. My guess is a happier mother with a well-fed soul is a lot better for your kids than staying in a town which is where they live only because it was where their lives-someplace-else-now-Dad used to work. And there is nothing left to lose. The battle is over. So no reason to keep trying to win.
Make your life what you want it to be :-D Your dreams aren't in Indiana.
Hi MMO Freediving Not anything deep. My lungs after working in a foundry for 9 years just are not happiness. Working is victim recovery or moving bouys is all I do not like the kids diving for nickels in Jamaica.
Key Largo sounds like a rockin good time. Never been there but heard sea stories of fun and frolic. I'm sure they are 100% all true.
"All I want is a weeks pay for a day's work" Steve Martin
Hey OT--maybe you have a point, but the fact is, I've made a good life here with great friends and community--I love my house (which I just refinanced) and the kids are pretty settled, so...it's hard to up and leave.
Anyway, I am filling out the grant application for the Effroymson Art Fellowship (it's 20K and due June 30th) and if you want to vet it for me, you know how to find me--write me and I'll send it to you.
I am pretty brain dead these days--no break from the kids for a LOOOOOOOONG time and I'm fried. I leave for M aine on Friday and have so many things to get ready but I'm so spent mentally I can't really get it together. The wayward "father" comes to fetch his children tomorrow (he hasn't seen them for 6 weeks)--I'm sure he'll swoop in like some conquering hero to pretend for all the world what a rockin' great dad he is--blech. I just want him to get these kids and get them out of my hair so I can breath a little.
Hopefully after a 10 day break and a lovely time in Maine I will be recharged and compus mentus again
