Calling out the Piecers

[dday101798]

Just wanted to throw out in my excitement how much more stable S11 is becoming. HE is still snipey with (x)W to an extent, but getting better about it. LAst night when I got in, I nearly had a heartattack when I looked in "his room" and found S11 reading a book He voluntarily read the book from cover to cover, only pausing for dinner. Initially my thoughts were that it was part of a bet, or a girl thing. But no, he did it on his own.

Then today I get an email from one of teachers in a class he was doing poorly in that he's pulled up his grade an entire letter in the last couple of weeks and is doing great.

I chalk up it up to a conversation I had with him as usual about his grades and cumulative impacts. But overall, he's maturing and seems to be more at ease that things are going to work out.

S13, is in his own way slowing down a bit with his attitude towards everyone. We ahd a visit from teh state social worker on Monday that echoes some of the points I and (x)W have been trying to get through to him, so maybe he's finally starting to see, hey something IS in fact wrong with how I'm acting and it's not just mom and dad being nazi's.

So, finally what 4 months in reconcilling and nearly 2 of them as a solid "family" again, they're starting to warm up. I have noticed that we're all not doing things together as we'd often like, mainly for financial reasons. But, we are every night sitting at the table having dinner as a family, something highly missed for many, many years.