Hi Sotto and Bttrfly, thanks for stopping by. I appreciate your comments.

I definitely have some thinking to do about contact. As of right now I am usually okay with it and I'm trying to be consistantly kind to her. But I have to ask myself for how long? For now I will just keep taking things day to day and see what happens.

I asked w about dinner because if it were my off week I'd appreciate not missing one of the kid's bdays. It is her choice but it wouldn't be my choice if it happened to fall on my off week. Ultimately it is about the kids though, right now it just felt like the right thing to do.

W came over tonight to watch D so I could take S out to get something for her from him. She looked bad, like she had been crying. Maybe it's rough on her too. I didn't ask her anything about it, just how her mom was and then a little small talk from her. She kept saying how she had to go do laundry before MLC friend got tired because she goes to bed early and gets upset about being up late. She's made a few comments like this. I kinda get the feeling their friendship has changed a little.

I will have to look into the goldenseal, that one is new to me. I used to collect echinacea when I would go out hiking but will have to pick some up. Thanks for the tip!