HORRID ! Help ! Forgive me Lord !

[Cinderellaman]

I just want to clarify.... for those of you who may feel that I should have gone out to the car anyway and kissed my kids and not taken any notice of the ow...

I see your point. However, I am not doing this to test anyone, or deprive anyone...all of it didn't take more than a few minutes of H coming into my friends house, picking up S5 and leaving again...there really wasn't much time to even consider all of this until after he left. I do think that I very much consider my kids in all of this ! I know that if I would have walked out to say hello, my kids would have felt extremely UNCOMFORTABLE with the situation... D10 has said this many times before to me....'mommy, I would rather you don't see us interact with ow, as I wouldn't want you to feel hurt'. I would not tell my kids of course that I would be hurt, but I do see and realize that my children do very well without me and ow interacting.

Of course this situation will not go on forever...one day probably I will face ow when needed. I will prefer to do this a first time without my kids around, as it will give them less stress. And I try to avoid stressing them out over this...

I do not talk bad about ow... as a matter of fact, I listen to what the kids tell me and try to be as normal as possible about it all. Please understand that no ill was intended from my side..it all happened to fast for that to have been the case.