For the Guy with Kids and a WW 12

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The wife brought the kids over tonight. She had called me earlier and asked if she should bring them or was I going to pick them up.

I asked if she would bring them because I was still cooking on the grill. She said ok.

D6 was asleep. I brought her inside and laid her down on her bed. Wife told me that she was saying she wanted to stay with her. She'll ask her when she wakes up. She asks about nephews room. We go look. I go back to finish cooking in the kitchen. She comes back and asks what I'm going to do with the stuff in S14's room.

It's all her stuff I took down from the walls and kitchen and bathroom. I tell her I planned on cleaning it and either selling it or something. I didn't think that she wanted it, I said. She said she didn't, but she had an upset look. Like she couldn't believe I took all the crap down.

I know she saw the two pictures of us that I had put up and our Marriage Contract. She didn't say anything. She said that S14 wanted to get his dresser so she is going to take it. I offer her a hand. We put it in the living room by the door. She goes to visit the puppies. I can hear her laughing and yelling because they are all excited and attacking her. I open the blinds and I see her and she looks back at me all happy holding one of them.

She and the girls come back in, and I start to get the table ready. I tell her she is invited to stay if she is hungry. She pauses and declines.

"S14 is waiting for me at home."

She says she is going to leave and D6 is having a hard time. She is tired again and she acts cookoo when she is tired. Wife tells her she'll see her tomorrow after she gets off. D6 says no she won't because daddy is going to pick them up and she won't see her. GBG looks at me and asks what time I get off. I say 5pm. Like usual.

"Everyday?"
"As far as I know." That means she WON'T see them. Just like the other times I pick them up during my week. She gets off work too late and I'm picking them up as fast as I can. I DON'T want her to see them. Makes it worse and she tries to keep us there longer. D6 is starting to cry. GBG looks at me and says,

"Can she go home with me?"
I say yes. I'm not going to force her to stay. GBG tells her to eat and she'll wait for her. D6 is still crying. GBG asks what is wrong. She keeps looking at me. I must of had some kind of look. I ask D6 if she wants to go talk to mom in her room. They go. I feel bad because D6 is upset and I feel bad because she wants to go with her mom. They come back out and they sit at the table. We both serve D6. She is hungry. I tell GBG that she can take a plate to S14 for dinner.

Again she pauses.

"I guess I can" she says quietly.

Were eating except for the wife and then she reminds me of the potato salad I forgot to serve. The girls love it. D11 looks at me and says it is "THIS close to moms". Her thumb and pointer finger with a space between.

I say it must be good then if it is close to moms. And it was good, if I do say so myself. Everything was.

Later I help wife put the dresser in her car. I hear a something loose in her passenger door, so I get some tools and tighten some bolts that are loose.

D6 DID decide to go back with her mom. I miss her already. I tell her to maybe think about tomorrow. Hugs and kisses.

Later, just a little while ago, GBG calls me. She asks how D11 is doing. I say she is fine. I ask about D6. She is fine. She is just tired. I ask what she said in the room. She told GBG that I looked like I was mad at her. My face.

"I wasn't mad at her. I just miss her a lot."
"I know. I told her that you werent mad at her. She was just tired."

She asks about D11 again. I tell her we've been laying on the bed talking and playing and tickling.

She pauses. "Can I talk to Amanda?"

They talk for a bit, then hang up.

I'm curious about what she thought about the pictures I put up and the Marriage Contract.

Not dwelling on it. Just curious. Who wouldn't be?