Thankfully, I will not be on my feet in the new job which is great.

The airfares have really gone up and her ticket was $361 round-trip. Definitely not worth it to come home for T'giving.

I had a few conversations with H before he came over. Actually, I extended the olive branch to him a few weeks before and asked if he would like to come over and spend some time before she went away. He did not hesitate at all to say yes.

Everyone was nervous because he was always in a bad mood or cynical as a result of the drinking in the past and this was the first time he'd been here and seen the girls in over a year. He has been sober since June, D16 tells me.

D18 told him all about college, showed him her pictures, videos from graduation, her awards, her laptop.....and he asked how was it she could afford all of this. We told him she had worked during school and some of the summer and she received graduation gifts as well. He could not remember what grade D16 was entering and we brushed it off and told him she was a junior.

I spent the day with D16 yesterday and out of the blue she tells me that her dad does not give a rip about ow...he is just there because he likes to be alone, that ow is clingy, insecure and does not trust him because she calls him all the time and her dad does not call ow.

I never brought this stuff up to her and I looked at her and asked how she knew all of this and she said she has been reading a lot of books, studying behavior patterns, body language, etc. as she wants to get into psych and/or criminology in college.

The books this child checks out of the library every few weeks...she needs a suitcase to fit them all!


The Bomb: 08/05
H moves out: 06/2006
H moves back: 01/07 & Out again: 01/07
H moves back: 03/08 & Out again: 04/08
H moves back: 05/09 & Out again: 07/09
Divorced 08-12
Kids: 22, 20, 19