I know I need to stay focused on the positives. I need to also ignore xW attempts to poison my PMA. Her job is easy -- doing evil is always the easier path than taking the high road. I just have to work all the more harder.
But I am so tired and weary. Three years of constant, unrelenting h*ll from someone I had placed all of my faith in trust in for so long has just worn me down. (You folks don't hear but maybe 2/3 of it, at most.) If it weren't for my correcting my priorities and placing my faith where it properly belongs, in the Lord, I'd have been lost, totally.
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I just got a request for a conference with S5's pre-K teachers. They're wanting to hold an urgent meeting concerning S5's behaviors in the last few weeks. They're inviting some specialist from Project Enlightenment to sit in on the meeting. This tells me this matter is a bit more serious than a friendly parent-teacher temperature-taking meeting. I have received notes from the teachers during my weeks that specified some behavior issues with S5. Lack of cooperation. Argumentativeness. Disagreements with peers. I have noted that it has occurred twice during my weeks of custody precisely on the days right after xW keeps S5 over during S9's cub scout night.
S5 has also had some speech issues that everyone has been glossing over, especially xW. I've tried to be accommodating and easy-going on this concern, but it has really started to bother me as he has progressed through preschool (still, I have said nothing of my concerns to either of my S's.) His pronunciation of words and sounds is often unclear -- and it has gotten so bad that even I can barely understand him at times. (Oddly, S9 tries to interpret for S5 during these times.) I wonder if this might be the reason why Project Enlightenment will be attending the parent-teacher conference. If so, I hope we can finally get to the bottom of S5's odd speech patterns and set up a course for remedying that. Maybe his mother will listen to someone besides me about this.
