Happy belated TG everybody. I've been busy the past week and a half, and haven't been checking in like I normally do.
UPDATE 11/19-11/25: Took our son to Dallas for TG with my sister and brother-in-law. When I went to pick him up 11/18 from my wife's house:
W: So I guess you don't need a letter from me to travel with our son, huh? (Recall the whole fiasco when my wife took our son out of state awhile back?) M: Hmm. No. W: Ha-ha-ha. (It was a sarcastic laugh, BTW. I ignored it.)
11/25 - From Dallas I text my wife to ask she'd like to pick our son up at 6pm that evening. (She knows our itinerary, since I emailed it to her weeks ago.) This was the rest of the text message conversation:
W: Im actually out of town...but I can pick him up tomorrow night. M: Ok, let's make it Sunday afternoon like usual. W: I would really like to get him Saturday night or Sunday morning. M: Sure! I'll drop E off at 8am tomorrow on our way to church. W: Thanks. I really appreciate it.
I was a little surprised by the smiley face.
Anyway, I dropped our son off as agreed on this morning and at 8:53pm I received the following email from my wife:
Alamo,
I'll have E with me tomorrow. We're going to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. He'll be back to day care as usual on Tuesday.
You'll have E the week of December 6, and then again for 2 different weeks in January while I'm gone for interviews. I'm planning on taking him for Christmas to Tennessee for 2 weeks December 17- Jan 3.
Hope you guys had a good vacation, Wife.
This was my initial reply, because I don't think I agree with her taking our son for two long weeks to TN for "Christmas". That's one bloody long Xmas:
Thanks for the info. I realize tomorrow's trip was perhaps spur-of-the-moment. Nonetheless, in the future, please try to plan and let me and Ez know ahead of time if you plan to take an extra time with him. I had told him that we'll see each other again tomorrow, so if there was change of plans, I'd prefer to be the one telling it to him, and vice versa.
Also, have you or will you be contacting Tessie about taking Ezra off tomorrow?
Is there anything I can say to express my disagreement? The way I see it is that my wife thinks that she can call the shots on when and where she takes our son just to make up for the time I spent with him while she goes for interviews. That's her loss, right? She chose this path/career and she still expects me to have tit-for-tat time with our son? No friggin' way!
