Spring Break has been very, very good to me—I’ll provide a more thorough update later on (lots of rest, doing stuff for self / GAL stuff):
But I do have an update, and a question for the forum:
Earlier this morning, W texts me if I have anything on calendar for week of May 6 (through May 10). I tell her in so many words that nothing is planned. Crickets from her after that.
Until she gets home later this afternoon. I figured it was some sort of work outing / trip—and I was right. She wants to go to a training in her native Atlanta—and she wants to take YS with her (OS would stay with me; other family members and friends can meet YS). She wants to know if that is okay with me. I told her I would think about it. She wants an answer by Monday morning, so she can talk with her supervisor, so they can get funding and all that.
My initial thoughts: She can go and travel all she wants, really—I’m used to that, and have become much more accustomed to that the last few years. What I’m conflicted about is her taking YS with her.
I seem to remember not that long ago W telling me to my face (as well in the D papers / court filing), that I am basically a flight risk. W has asserted that I have no ties to SoCal, and she’s told me her fears about me non-renewing my teacher agreement at the end of the year and up-and-taking the kids back to my native Cleveland, OH, and that my mom would be colluding with me to take the kids at any point (W’s reasoning / WAS-speak: ‘you never know what people can do when they’re angry.’) (Not that I would ever do such thing, but....her mind is just elsewhere at this point)
I’ll have to look at the paperwork again, but I would imagine that she would need written permission from me, within a certain time period, to take either or both of the boys out of state. I’ll double-check. Should also check with L about that one. W also told me that this works both ways—that I’d have to let her take a kid / kids, if I want to do the same.
