Six to Nine

[mahhhty]

I guess no one knows how to find Greek & Coach's threads after archiving. Perhaps it is somewhere else. I'll keep looking.

Tonight, both kids had an open house for school. My S is in a 2 day program and my D in a 3 day. X and I coordinated appropriately and fairly easily to plan to both be there.

This was the longest period of time we have spent with each other in a long time. S's was first. I arrived at 501. They were waiting for me. As I pulled in I could hear my S start saying my name (mind you I was 100+ yards away). He immediately came to me as I approached. That felt incredibly good. She went on to explain to me that he cried the whole way to school, however, once we were there I started playing with him and off we went. He definitely showed no signs of unhappiness, and was very eager to play. It was wonderful to see him in the environment.

My D was with X's Mom at the local ice cream stand. So we left the open house and both drove there (she did not offer for me to ride with her) and saw D, then went back for D's open house. D will be going there with X's Sister's D. So X's Sister & Husband where there. Upon seeing me their D came right over (I was always the fun uncle). Inside it was much of the same, I played almost exclusively with the kids.

My kids love me very much they were sweet and look for affection which I give them every chance I can. I love them and love the relationship we now have. It is a shame it took such loss to provide it. But I am grateful for it now.

As for X, we talk and she asks me pertinent questions about the kids. We never ever ask each other any questions about our current lives, and we rarely say goodbye to each other. It is so very odd to me.