My S's are with the ex this weekend. Today was the big kickoff event for scouting, a family picnic, and so I asked xW if it would be all right if I took S9. She hemmed and hawed until yesterday before she gave an answer. But she wanted me to drive all the way out to their double-wide out in the sticks, OM's home, an hour one way, to pick him up. But she had plans to visit OM's mother this afternoon, and since where the picnic is would be on their way, she said she would pick S9 up later after the event was over. Well, at the last minute, xW reneged and decided to not pick S9 up and she expected me to drive all the way back out there again. Yet again xW couldn't live up to her own agreements.
After spending four needless hours on the road -- and all because she just has to have her squalid trailer out in the dirt 60 miles away -- I am none too happy.
...But I am ranting here... That's all. I'm getting over it...
However... I am not going to allow this to become some precedence, which I am dead certain she wants this to be -- I understand that this was on her custody time and I was trying to be accommodating for that reason, but this mileage she has placed between me and my S's is her choice and should not be a burden I have to bear. Not for her. I can compromise to a point and no more.
Next time xW pulls this I will simply take S9 home with me.
