It's All My Husband's Fault

  This year has been pretty quiet.  Not so much arguing, although I don't really have a specific thing I can pin it to.  Boyfriend is in jail, so maybe there's less fighting in The Ex's house.  We sent a summer calendar a couple of months ago which outlined who got the kids which days, so there would not be arguing month after month about who got which holidays and who got which weekends.  It might also just be due to the court order requiring emails to be read and replied to; it's easier to track what was said, when it was said, etc. so it's harder for The Ex to pick a fight when we can go back and prove what actually happened.   We'll start at the beginning of January.  Husband emailed The Ex on a Friday night about Daughter's basketball tournament which was the following weekend, and Son's ear piercing. ( That experience was covered in the previous blog post. )  Husband asked if The Ex was planning on taking Daughter to all of her games or le...

  It's been quite awhile since I posted.  Things have been unbelievably calm and quiet in regard to The Ex.  I don't have an exact reason for it but there could be any number of reasons:  The Ex is quiet/happier because Boyfriend is in jail right now so there's less arguing in her own household; The Ex doesn't have anything to fight about right this second; The Ex doesn't want to email Husband because she looks stupid every time she clicks "Send."  I don't know, but I'm enjoying the peace and quiet we've got over here.   Going back quite a few months, Son started asking if he could get his ear pierced.  Husband told him that he would talk to The Ex about it and was not going to take Son unless The Ex was okay with it. ( Even though The Ex took Daughter to get her ears double-pierced at the age of 7, right before we picked the kids up on a Sunday afternoon; she called last minute and said to pick up the kids at the mall instead of her house, D...