I managed to "catch" the boys Friday morning, having failed to do so the prior days their mother had them. Even so, it was when she was dropping them off at her mother's place, not at her own -- so xW could not really experience the full effect of being encroached upon.
I will try a little harder to catch them before she heads out each day -- which, I am gathering, is earlier and earlier every day.
xW sent me an email on Thursday, telling/warning me I had better make arrangements for daycare since she was going to split things up. I have mentioned before that xW (once again) wants to re-jigger the childcare provisions -- this time she wants to only cover her own expenses and leave me to cover my own weeks, beginning with July. This includes, by her plans, for me to begin to pay her mother directly for her so-called "childcare services". xW now suggests I contact my atty and work out a written modification to our agreement to make this happen.
Mind you, xW hasn't even given either of our L's and update to her increased salary situation since I first asked for this close to a year ago, so as to be able to recalculate the child support supplement I give her each month -- and yet now she wants me to incur the legal costs to making her life easier, as she perceives it?
No, xW is playing games again, and I am just not inclined to play along. I am indeed going to make my own daycare arrangements -- entirely -- and so I will begin phasing out her mother's service altogether once I figure out an alternative.
I did manage to track the PC down, if only briefly. It seems I am either getting his voicemail or catching him when he's tied up with another client. xW got him as well just the day before. It seems we're both following up on counseling for S5. xW got the PC to give us a referral back to a place I had lined up for S9 three years ago, but had let go. The reason the referred to place was dropped back then was because they admitted they could not really provide help for kids with Asperger's, which S9 needed. My own personal reason was that xW had "poisoned the well" there with the counselor by shedding her crocodile tears and blaming me for everything wrong in our M, our family and with our S.
So I am loathe to go back to that child counseling center.
In any event, I tried in the short time available to the PC to appraise him of the changes that had happened since we last spoke. The xW's wedding, my moving, S5's emotional issues (including the one incident of rejecting my custody exchange) and xW's efforts to campaign our S's on removing them to OM's place and changing schools.
The PC was most concerned over the school change actions. But he seemed more interested in playing wait-and-see, rather than taking initiative to thwart xW from continuing with her plans. I must assume he just doesn't want to believe that xW is capable of such duplicity.
It hurts me to think that he will give the benefit of a doubt to provable liar and cheat. But given everything that has been said before, I am finished with being surprised by that.
I have had a very good three day weekend with S9 and S5. We played and ran errands on Saturday and Sunday. We went to Church of course. Today we went to a local fun park and had a blast. Go-carts, laser-tag, etc. (I really like it when I can wear one or both of them out.)
And when we're home they keep gravitating back to playing Lego Batman on the Wii -- they don't ever seem to tire of it. But I did manage to get them to take breaks by watching the various Batman movies -- they've now seen all of them except The Dark Knight.
It was a pretty packed weekend, despite all of the video game time. Fun for all of us.
