Divorce
Posted by razz05
Let’s just say… things here have been worse than rough. The kids and I moved out of the house on Saturday. We moved into my Grampa’s apt. with my Dad. L seems to be taking things fairly well. She cried for about 15 minutes after we told her, and has almost been unrealistically calm. She has seen me cry alot (I’ve been trying to hide it… but it’s not easy), and just hugs me. She starts her new school tomorrow and is SO incredibly excited to go.
S is very confused. He doesn’t get what’s going on… at all. K came and dropped off a few things 2 nights ago and was giving him a hug goodbye. S says to K… “Daddy, where are you going?” K says “I’m going home, but I’ll see you tomorrow.” S says, “I want to go back to my real home.” 
Poor kid.
I feel terrible for the kids, but I am 100% sure I did the right thing. K and I are getting along fairly well. We’re going to use a mediator (instead of paying 3x’s the amount for lawyers) to try to settle things. He is a decent person and Dad, we just can’t seem to work things out. We tried for well over a year to “fix” things, and it just didn’t work.
Me… I’m hanging in there. It’s rough for sure, I’m just hoping things get better quickly.
Abdominal Migraine #1
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Well, L has been taking the pill form of Periactin for most of the summer. She was fine up until this morning. She woke up at 6:30 (earlier than usual) and said she was going to throw up. I gave her Tylenol (it’s much like a head migraine, so I’ve read that you should give them something for pain to try to get rid of it) and a dose of the liquid form of Periactin that I had left over. About an hour later she had eaten breakfast and still felt sick to her stomach, so I gave her some 2 Tums. I called her into school thinking it wasn’t going to get any better. Around 9:00 she was running thru my house acting like a lizard. I was tempted to take her to school, but I had a GYN apt at 10 and was afraid if they called me to go get her and I wouldn’t be able to right away. So here she is… she’s eaten a full lunch, and is feeling completely fine.
UGH, I’m just SO glad we caught it before she actually got sick, cuz I have a feeling it wouldn’t have stopped. We’ll pick up the script for the liquid stuff again and we’ll continue on with that.
They’re dropping like flies.
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L is not a happy camper. Another child in her class, whom we just thought was on vacation or something, is being home schooled (a trial year for the mom I guess is what I’m told). I do remember the mom saying she didn’t like the 1st grade teacher. L just keeps saying “Why can’t these kids come to school with us and have fun?” I think she thinks they’re sitting home staring at walls or something LOL. I’ve explained to her that they’re learing, just in a different way, and that they’re doing fun things at home and other places too.
In Kindergarten, she had a “best” friend. This little girl’s mom took her out after one of the school vacations (April I think). L was beside herself wondering what SHE, herself, did wrong for the girl not to come back. I reassured her it wasn’t anything she did wrong, it was just her mom’s decision. Well… to make matters worse… this little girl was on a play date sometime around the end of May with another boy from the class. The boy was telling her all about the fun stuff that was going to be happening within the next few weeks (end of school stuff, like parties, field trips, etc.). So of course the little girl asked her mom why she couldn’t be a part of it and the mom let her go back to school for the last 3-4 weeks of school. WTF is this teaching our children? When the going gets tough… I’ll pull you out… but when the fun stuff is happening… you can go back? ARGHHHHH!!
It definitely makes it tough on us… because I don’t think the parents of these kids (2 of them so far) realize how difficult it is for some of the other kids in the class to understand why these kids keep going back and forth from schooling to home schooling. I’ve tried explaining it to her, but she just doesn’t think it’s right.
I’ve met this mom. The only reason she didn’t want her daughter in school (she should have thought about this a LONG time ago) is because she doesn’t like the principal of the school. Alot of people don’t like the principal, but to be honest with you, I have yet to hear a story about her that is SO bad that I’d pull my kid out of the school. She really is harmless, just has her own way of doing things (which isn’t wrong).
I guess I get to do some more explaining when L gets home today because she doesn’t yet know the real reason another child was pulled out of her class.
L’s 1st day of 1st grade was yesterday
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She has 16 of the 17 kids in her class from last year… however, she has one new girl, and 3 of the first graders “stayed back to help”. WTF? This is a tiny school… only one class for each grade. Each of the classes has between 11 and 22 kids (or so), and THREE of them stayed back? I’m thinking the 1st grade teacher is a little tough??? LOL The kindergarten teacher let them pass the year prior so it can’t be THAT bad. I remember hearing something from the 1st grade teacher (talking to the K teacher) about how if ANY of the kids aren’t quite ready, to just keep them back a grade. It’s all interesting to me I guess. She had fun and got to choose her own seat (not sure that’s a good idea, but we’ll see I’m sure). She thinks she’s the “bomb” being a 1st grader now. She said there were “little kids” on her bus on the way to school… I asked how old they were and she said they were in K. LMAO I told her she was in K last year and she was a “little kid” then, and she said, “No, I’ve always been a big kid” UGH (everyone tells her she’s so tall, so I guess that’s where she gets it from). Anyways, here’s a pic…