You can't have everything, where would you put it?

[ClingingToHope]

First day of last week of summer vacation was slow for me. Softball game in morning with girls. After, they wanted to just lay around the apartment until early afternoon.

We went to the health club for two hours then I had another softball game (newspaper has morning and night teams). After, we picked up two of the girls friends to go swimming at my uncle's house.

I'm hoping to rent the house next door and am waiting for a call from property management company on when I can go see it.

Swimming was a good time and the five of us have vegged out here after. D7 has had her moments. Both of the girls staying over want to play with her and fight with each other so it's an interesting dynamic. I stayed out of it and let D7 learn to cope.

D11 and I watched a DVD of old home movies my uncle gave me. It has small clips with my mom and dad, who were long gone when the girls were born.

D11 is big into family. She feels sad when others talk about grandparents. She just has STBXW's mom left.

So it was good seeing video of my parents and getting to tell stories about them.

I had a down moment with D11 earlier in the day. We were at the health club pool and I'm not sure how it came up but she said it hurt her feelings when I told her I didn't want to know what's happening with STBXW or what's going on with the house.

"When you say that it's like you don't care about her at all and I know you do," she said.

I told her I'd try to listen then.

One text from STBXW. She asked if she should drop off D11's tuba for tuba lessons tomorrow. I said yes.

Tomorrow is the pretrial conference on the argument over the settlement amount. I guess we'll see what's next.

Final thing. I had to stop at Walgreens to pick up ear plugs. While I was there I picked up St. John's Wort to give it a try. I read online it has been effective with mild depression. I'm hoping it'll keep the downs from being so down.

Reds win, Reds win. Cardinals and Reds are going to battle it out. BobbiJo is a Cardinals fan.