Just an update. Something to post, to log for posterity. And for anyone who is still interested in knowing.
I am swamped with work and very busy with preparations for the apartment move. I've got nearly all the logistical stuff worked out, but the packing is still a mountain of work left to do. I have never cared for moving.
It took almost no time for the ex to find out about my move. Neither she or her mother have let out even one peep that they are aware. But Jabba the Hut (OM) tried to ask me about it last Monday (and he practically never says anything to me, so it was doubly odd to me.) Whatever. I had predicted it would leak out to them eventually, but not quite do fast. Only S5 had had any sort of contact with any of them, earlier that morning.
This corroborates my belief that xW and xMIL grill S5 and S9 for information the minute they see them. Or else they have trained these two small boys to sing like canaries at the drop of a hat. I'm thinking he latter, since I've seen how they interact. The minute they see their mother they tend to go into immediate confessional mode.
Enough speculation, even if they are well-educated deductions.
I think I may have another fight brewing on my hands. S9 is now talking again about tree houses. That's the catch phrase that his mother had been using to bribe him into accepting her fantasy. The fantasy she launched three or more years ago, unbeknownst to me at the time, to replace me with OM and a home out in the sticks, with a tree house for my S's. So they're replaying that old song again, renewing the coercion and bribery of these children.
I guess I've been a bit too confident that she would have a hard time selling the PC and a judge on her plans to move my children so far away from their father, to a school system that is a definite step backwards in quality from where they are now. Where S9's IEP is currently secured, and his counselor, and his excellent teachers.
But then xW never lets logic, rational thought or morality thwart her self-interests for very long.
S9 mentioned that his mother and OM had driven he and his little brother out by the school way out there in nowhere's land. Apparently xW is trying to convince S9 that he might be happier out there, at least some day, by the time he gets to middle school or high school -- if not sooner. She has evidently launched a campaign to bribe my S's and to convince them they should choose a lesser school system.
xW is so evil. So selfish. So sick.
Ten years ago we moved to this community specifically because of how highly rated the schools are. This was the best place, in both our estimations, hers foremost, for raising our kids. And when we had at one point thought we'd like to homeschool our children, we found so many excellent resources also right here in this community already.
Now she doesn't give a d*mn. Oh, she'll make excuses that she supposedly has our S's best interests at heart. But she continues to prove over and over again she's just full of BS.
I guess I am now going to have to once again notify the PC and let him know that her games are still afoot. He had expressed his hope that she would not be trying to continue to take such actions clearly not in the boys' best interests, such as bribing them and trying to move them to this lesser school system, but she is not complying.
Is this all I can do? To have to continually report these recurring infractions and underhanded scheming to the PC? I am starting to think there's very little that will be done about it even so. It's like trying to get the UN to do it's stated job in a war zone, it seems so fruitless.
Nevertheless I am sticking to my guns and making sure my S's have everything they need right here. The whole purpose of my moving is to secure their enrollment in this current school, and I will not let xW screw that up for them.
