Xmas eve here. Just wanting to wish all my friends a good Xmas day.
Kids and i are doing well and very busy.
Email from XH yesterday saying he was too busy (had to work - in the business that he owns!) to visit the kids on Xmas day. He has never worked on Xmas day for as long as we've had the business. He will be with OW and her family, and my kids know this.
So sad.
Noticed from card record that he drove to his teenage home town in the past 2 days - over and back, 14 hrs drive each way. Stopped off at his out-of-the way home suburb and bought a truckload of booze.
His crisis has its roots here (when he was 16), as far as i can work out.
Claims his mum abandoned him to go and live with his younger brother in another state. Big story about having to bake his own birthday cake for his 16th birthday.... And how he drove all night without stopping to come over to our city to visit his sick grandpa (this is the journey he just re-visited yesterday). The pieces all start to fit, with hindsight.
Anyway, enough about him. Off to shop for Xmas day lunch with my family at my place tomorrow.
