No, we haven't told the kids yet. We have an appointment with the mediator this Friday, my wife and I, and we bought a book that was recommended to us about how to help the kids get thru this. We're trying to get into see our diocesan MC for help with how to present it to them as well, but she's booked solid thru the end of the month. We're waiting to hear about a possible cancelation.
Friday she went out for drinks with her new female friend from work, and some other people (I fully suspect this was co-ed, and included a possible new OM2 with whom she has at least initial interest, altho I have no hard proof of that). She told me she was doing this, and where they were going, and me and the boys just got dinner ourselves after our baseball practice. W called once and texted once, and ended up coming home fairly early -- 9:30, I think.
Saturday she went on a cleaning frenzy in the house, and I did some stuff I needed to do around here as well until S12's baseball game at 3. Me and my buddy who I coach with were supposed to meet for a beer after, but he stood me up and sent me a disturbing text message that he ran into some trouble with his D22 when he got home, so I need to check on him. I stayed at the pub a little while and one of the waitresses chatted with me, and then I saw another buddy there from my regular Friday happy hour group, and he bought me a beer and I left after about an hour. I was a little hacked off that when I got home, my wife was just sitting on the couch, staring at her laptop screen, and hadn't made ANY plans for dinner, so I ran out to the grocery store (at that point it was already close to 7), bought steaks and stuff, and came home, cooked everything and had it on the table inside of an hour.
I was supposed to go out Saturday nite and meet another good friend to shoot some pool, but then HE stood me up, so I just had a cigar out on my deck and had some wine and stayed around here. W just surfed around on her computer in the house and fell asleep watching TV.
Yesterday was more baseball, and more housecleaning for the fetching-yet-she's-so-cold Mrs. Puppy. GORGEOUS weather down here, btw!!! I helped with the cleaning and then took the boys to the putting green before taking S12 to his doubleheader about 12:15, and we didn't get home until after 5. He pitched FANTASTIC, and was really excited because this is a real good TRAVEL team, filled with his old friends/teammates and old coaches, and he always wants to do his best against them. He pitched 5 fantastic innings (gave up only two singles and one unearned run), and left the game with his team leading 7-1. Keep in mind, we are just a bunch of "rec" (recreational) kids, and this is a travel team we play against. We play appr. 12-game seasons, and practice once a week, and they play 50-60 game seasons and practice 4-5x/week! As usual, no one else could pitch well today, and we barely hung on to win that first game, 7-5, and then we got blown out in the second one, 13-3. All in all, S12 gave up that one run in 5 innings, and the rest of the team's pitchers gave up SEVENTEEN runs in the other five innings!
He also had a triple, an RBI single (which barely missed going out), and got robbed of a hit to center on what was probably the hardest-hit ball of the three that he hit. He played well, we split the DH, and he was very happy when I put him to bed last night.
Then it was home for dinner, and Mrs. Puppy whipped up various pasta -- fettucine alfredo and cavatelli w/red sauce and italian sausage, bread sticks and a salad.
We both got kind of sad at dinner as S12 started talking about the vacations he wants to go on this summer. :o(
Thanks for checking on me. At one point yesterday morning, W took a call on her cellphone and mumbled "Who the heck is this?" as she looked at her caller I.D., she took the call, and then went outside and shut the sliding glass door to have a good 30-minute conversation, part of which she made it a point to have far away from the back door.
Puppy
P.S. Florida is a "no-fault" state, unfortunately.
