These are some of the reasons why I love him so much, why I put up with so much crap. He does so much for other people. He would give away his last $10 if somebody needed it, he would drop everything to help a friend, even a stranger. Just a pity that me and the kids weren't as important as everybody else.
Wow, I could have written this, with one slight exception: he would give away MY last $10 if someone needed it.
When we first got M'd, we used to go boating and camping together all the time because he had 4 kids and that was something he would do with them. It was fun, but one heck of a lot of work. I would spend two or three whole days with him camping, but then I couldn't get him to sit and do a jigsaw puzzle with me for 5 minutes. To me, it's not nearly as important what you're doing as who you're doing it with. Well his behavior knocked off my rose-colored glasses pretty early on and I stopped enjoying him, so I gradually stopped doing his things with him. And since he never had any interest in doing my things, we just stopped doing things together. I don't even know what interests we share besides S12.
The "holiday" thing you refer to must be an Aussie thing. Or at least I've heard of it more in the European countries. We don't get that much time off work. And S12 doesn't get that off school (well, in the summer he does.) I like the idea but money is a little tight right now, so there's not going to be anything big. S12 and I are going to the movies on Thursday since he has off school. It's hard to even want to do anything with H.
Thankfully, this post has redirected my thoughts to something else. If you're in Australia, then that means you're going into your summer, correct? So you have Christmas in the summer? Are the kids off school? It's funny, I never thought of that...
