Biggus Dickus: Part 2

[LoisB]

I apologized and, then, balled my eyes out-well, for the 15 seconds I was without kids. LOL. Turns out it was stress. Stress about moving her home, stress about dissolution papers, stress about money pressures, feeding this extra mouth is huge!!

But, I had a nice talk with my and told her I appreciated all she had done. She said, "You've had a lot going on this week. I kinda figured."

Watching all these families pack up their kids hit home. It's been another year and Smokey is long gone and I have dissolution papers to proofread. He's missed another year of our daughter's life. So many milestones. He never even saw her dorm room or met her roommate.

Watching the other dads is painful. D19 has only made a few remarks about it and didn't seem to notice yesterday--or didn't say anything. But, it's hard not to notice when you see these dad hauling load after load from dorm to car.

Still, I got the job done. Tarped it and bungeed it and made sure it was all secure for the ride home. Jeeezzz. Where did all this shid come from and where are we going to put it!??

I plan on having D19 put a lot of her stuff in rubbermaid containers.

Got D19 home. The elevator was broken in her dorm so I made many trips up and down the four flights. Looked at it as exercise for the day and made me feel a little less guilty about the McDonald's we ate on the way.

D19's bestie drove with me and we talked a lot about her mom. I was able to give her some information about MLC which she had never known and it seemed to really help her understand her mom's bizarre behavior. Her mother checked out of motherhood and marriage a few years back after being the kinda great mom that even intimidated me (and I'm pretty great).

Anyway, her mom divorced her dad and blamed him after 20 years of marriage. Now, mom is spending her time with a heavy pot smoking sail maker who rarely bathes. Yes, sail maker...

We live in Ohio, so sailing isn't so big here like in say, Newport News! Lol.

But, all the information I've gathered here and in my reading seemed to really help this girl understand that her mom isn't doing this maliciously.

This lady, I remember, was soooo devoted to her daughter. Absolutely devoted to helping her daughter become the woman that she is today. Ironically, this girl is turning into an amazing woman and the mom isn't able to enjoy it. The girl has a 3.5 GPA in college and studied abroad and did it, for the most part, without her mom's help or support.

So, D19 is home. We have, literally, a truck load of stuff to unload and get the rental back tomorrow. I'm exhausted, but couldn't sleep. I will try me melatonin.