STBX comes to pick up the kids. I didn't expect him, he usually tells me what his ETA is. Nothing tonight, fine whatever, I know he'll show up between 3:30 and 5PM. So I hear the doorbell. I don't answer because I figure it's one of the kids' friends. I hear one of my kids yell Dad! Ok fine, I think and.... I don't care, I don't care, I don't care.
I don't get up and continue to fold laundry in another room. He inches his way into the house. Pokes his head around the corner and says Hello, how are you? Fine I reply, and keep on folding laundry. " Are you going out tonight?" he asks. I say "Maybe, maybe not, don't know yet." He replies,"Oh well if you do can you let me know if you'll be around my area to pick up the kids, otherwise I'll drop them off at XXX time." "Fine I'll do that." I say. I then get up to see our kids off and give them a hug. He steps in front of me and holds out a prepaid coffee card. I look at it puzzled. He says, " Oh it has about $40 on it. " I say, "Don't you use it?" "No", he says. I said, "Well you can use it with the kids, they like _______." He says, "Treat them, then, you keep the card."
I say thanks and pocket the card. I say goodbye, have a nice evening and shut the door after them.
WTH is going on?
BITS Me-51, WAS-52 Kids 2 M-26yrs, H.left 2009, 2 more Bomb drops, Reconnection spring 2013 Change is inevitable, personal growth is a choice. Love is a action and choice you make, every day.
