Last Friday night W was planning on going out to dinner with the Mom Posse and had arranged for D to go to a swim club to keep the D of Mom #1 company - which would leave me alone with S. No problem with that at all. After I got home with the kids from school and daycare, W calls. Traffic is extremely bad for her to get home, pick up D and go. She asks me if I could take D to the swim club and meet her there. I told her that I would be glad to help her out so I piled the kids into the minivan (aka the Dodge POS) and set out. Traffic in the direction I was going (which was the opposite from what W had to face) was not a problem and I got D there. A few minutes later W pulls up. She thanks me profusely (for her) for doing this - I told her again that I was glad to lend a hand. Had a great evening with S and we had already gotten to bed before W and D got home. Traffic was still bad - it delayed W for over an hour. And she never bothered to call to keep me from worrying...
Saturday W and D went to visit MIL in the nursing home followed by some shopping. We did have a good lunch out before they left - S was a pleasant handful. After W and D got back, I mentioned that our German band group was having a kickoff party the following Saturday and asked if I should send off an RSVP for it. W was very noncommittal about it - acted as if she didn't care one way or the other. Now these people are as much her friends as they are mine - but I get the sense that she now considers that as "Bob's Thing" rather than "Our Thing."
Yesterday morning one of our neighborhood kids (who rides the bus along with D) dropped off an invite to his birthday party in a few weeks - the week after my trip up to Virginia Beach. W was still asleep (we didn't get to bed until after midnight) so I brought it in and put it on the table. When W got up, I told W about the invite. W acted very disappointed about when the party was scheduled since she was planning on taking the kids with her somewhere that weekend. Naturally, this was the first that I had heard about it.
Now before everyone gets the wrong idea - nearly every year W does take the kids somewhere for a weekend and leaves me at home. Normally W and the Mom Posse rent something out at the beach for them and the kids but I guess that the Moms couldn't agree on something for the fall so W is going to do something solo. And that weekend D has Friday off from school as it is a Teacher Workday.
Back to journalling...
We all did go out to see "Pulse" at the local IMAX theater that afternoon followed by some ice cream (for the kids) and lattes (for the grownups). The evening could have been better - our dog chewed up some pieces of a wooden 3D dinosaur puzzle the kids and I were putting together and S was really acting hyper after his bath and ticking both W and me off at him.
While waiting for the bus this morning, W sounded like that the kids would be going to the birthday party after all and postpone the weekend getaway. And I have been busy applying online for a EPA position locally this morning. This afternoon looks busy as well - solo C session followed by grocery (foraging). Also it looks like I will get to go to dance practice this evening - yeah!