Checking in with everyone. Keeping busy but finding I have time to be lazy. Spent all day today in bed reading. Kids are all well.

I have tried to keep a relationship albeit a distanced one with my steps, and it seems to be getting harder. I dropped off a BD present for stepGD's 7th birthday, and a BD card for her Mom, as well. My D25 happened to drop in at the local bowling alley and found they were having a BD party for GD, and none of our family had been invited. She said DIL seemed embarrassed. Even though XH was not there, either. I understand the difficulty, but the kids have always been cousins. Why wouldn't she have wanted the little ones there?

As for XH, he has apparently made his choices, new wifey over his own kids. It's hard to believe the egotistical slime bucket he has turned out to be.

Doing the judicial cha-cha over alimony. After 30 days, received a notification of some little crap Army didn't have, and now I have to start all over again. As for X, he is now $1000.00 in arrears. Boy, I could use that money.