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So I had a nice weekend with the kids. It could have been better but for some reason I was really exhausted. Just couldn't get up and running at full speed. It's ok, it happens sometimes.

We still ended up having some fun. I did a lot of painting with my daughter and that was fun. We did some normal stuff - food shopping, ran a few errands, played outside a little bit. My S has been mesmerized by a Star Wars video game he plays on my laptop.

My D told me the other night, "Daddy, if you were mommy I would want to spend more time with you. I just want mommy because she's mommy." I laughed. She's been fussing a lot the past 3 weeks wanting mommy when she's with me.

When my W came home this afternoon to swap the kids my D wouldn't let go of me. She said to my W, "Mommy can't daddy stay with you and me and brother for a while?" My W basically ignores statements like this and once again she did. My D asked her a few times and my W finally said, "Daddy has to go to work."

My W is taking the kids 'camping' from Tue through Fri. She's taking them a few hours away to camp in the backyard of one of her HS friends' parents house. I guess they're going to set up some tents back there. This guy was (is?) in love with my W ever since HS. He used to email her and she would basically make fun of him. She's bee spending a lot of time with him and his family and this is the guy I think she is hooking up with.

Every 4th of July she usually goes to her brother's lakehouse and this year she drove 4 hours to go hang out with this dude and supposedly his family. My kids feed me this information. I really don't want to hear it but kids are gonna talk.

I'm not going to see the kids for a week so they gave me a lot of kisses and some giant hugs to tie me over till then. I handed my D to my W and my D started crying. She kept saying, "I want daddy." That was nice since I always hear her saying she wants her mom when I have her.

I think hearing my D say this stuff is a reality check for my W. You know I got the old, kids are resilient spiel from her in the past. Resilient, yeah, but there's a whole impact on them which has nothing to do with resiliency.

When I got to work I got a text from my W. She said, "D says you are going away really far and she doesn't know where you are going. Are you going away?"

I just responded back, "I haven't talked to them at all about my plans." Lat week she said she wanted to give the kids to me this weekend (it's her weekend) because she was taking them for the week. I told her I was not going to be around this weekend and had plans.

About 30 minutes later my S called me and said, "Dad where are you going? I said what do you mean? He said I want to know, Jess wants to know and mommy wants to know. I told him I was at work and I'll be working all week. He said oh, ok. Then he asked me to drop off his star wars disk he left in my laptop.

So that's the poop.