Unstoppable

[dday101798]

We ended up not doing much. I asked the boys where they wanted to take me on my B'day, and they were not really interested in going out at all, no matter what I suggested -- even an amusement park. This tends to happen a lot now of days. xW seems to inundate them with outings and other activities all during her week, so much so they're ready to be home-bodies by the time my week comes around.

Brother NCB, happy belated b-day (from dday )

This was so true with my boys. Xw wanted to just wow them away with going here and going there, doing this and doing that. At first, they expected me to do the same, and then finally were the same as yours. What I did was as I journaled in my thread. We would stay around the house, but do family things. Instead of go to lavish dinner out, we made a lavish dinner in, together. Everybody had a part. And we'd do the same, play video games and what not.

So it was a multiple fold approach, not only to save the budget, but to also GAL, I was learning things with them at the same time, and bonding. This in turn drove XW up the wall and I think was part of what finally broke her down. She saw, I can be that great dad that I had ceased to be for a bit of time while the M fell apart. And also that family time doing things together is far more important than how many thrill rides they can get on in one day, or how many plush resteraunts can be eaten at in a week.