One Last Pull for this Knot to Break

[sleeper]

Ok here's some weird stuff and some funny stuff.......

X showed up at church today without OM. She sat at the back but about halfway through the service came over and sat with me, DD and DS. It was really weird as that was a situation that hasn't happened in over 2 years.

After the service we all walked out together. I asked DS to stop and let me get in front of X as we walked down a flight of stairs because she was wearing suicide heels and if she had fallen I couldn't break her fall from behind. X commented that the heels were "very comfortable". After we walked X to her car I requested she give me and the kids a ride to our car. She did.

As I was driving away with kids I turned on my phone and noticed I had 5 missed calls and 2 new messages. They were all from X asking where we were, were we at church yet, etc. I had turned my phone off when the service began. X arrived late (some things never change and never will).

Later in the evening X called EXACTLY at the time we have agreed upon for kidswap (a first). DS answered the phone. I heard him tell X he was playing a game with DD and wasn't ready to come home. He also said, "Dad's house is more fun than yours" and immediately hung up on X. It was all I could do to not laugh aloud. About 45 seconds later X called again. This time I answered. She asked when she could get the kids and we went back and forth saying, "I'll bring them to you, no I'll come get them", etc. I finally established that I would bring them to her as I had to go somewhere anyway.

When the kids and I finally left the house I called X to let her know we were coming. She asked where I was going after I brought kids to her. I told her the grocery store. She then said she would meet us at a store but I told her I was almost at her house.

When we got to her house, OM was there and there was a family pic down off the wall (one with me in it). I asked her if I could have the frame. She told me "I want to keep it, I'm going to hang it back up, I was only looking at something in the picture." I spoke to OM and then X and I discussed something that was wrong with her car as if he wasn't in the room.

She was all smiley toward me and complimented me on the t-shirt and jeans I was wearing (she's seen them both before). Next time I gotta remember to whisper something in her ear in front of him. The day of the week would do just fine.

I got out of there as quickly as I could.