Bizarre - Welcome back. I'm sure you had a great time w/ your daughter, wedding plans and all. It also sounded like the break was good.
As for me, I do feel like I've come a long ways and I'll be better off in the future, whether with or without my W. I see things from an entirely different perspective now and I'm sure I'll keep learning and growing.
I'm still waiting on both the dogs and the parenting evaluator. I did call the parenting evaluator and informed him I was sending him a copy of the police report on the dogs and asked him to call me if he would like for me to explain my side of the story to him. He hasn't called and my L said that was a good thing, so I'm still holding out hope and waiting...waiting... waiting...