Really, what's the point of Mother's Day?
I'm so sorry that I've been MIA, but life here has been just absolutely insane. I'm exhausted at the end of every day. A big part of it is Son, and a big part of his behavior is The Ex. But we'll get to that in the next blog post. For right now, I'm going to talk about Mother's Day.
For the last 13 years, the court order has read that The Ex will get the kids beginning at 9am on Mother's Day, regardless of the year. It makes sense; she's their mom, she gets them on Mother's Day. Nothing has changed in that regard. The thing that's nice for me is that since we got custody nine years ago, I also get to spend at least a little bit of Mother's Day with Son and Daughter. Anyway...
I think about 3-4 days before Mother's Day, Daughter tried calling The Ex because she wanted to talk to her about spending more time here in the summer rather than spending the majority of time in Tiny City. The Ex didn't answer but texted back later. Daughter asked if The Ex was coming on Sunday (which was Mother's Day) and received the response, "No." (The Ex used punctuation. She must have been upset.) Still, we can't really bank on that; The Ex has said before that she's going to do A-B-C and then at the last second decides she's going to do X-Y-Z instead. So we "celebrated" on Friday night instead because it would be very much like The Ex to announce at 7:30am on Sunday that she changed her mind again and was on her way to pick up the kids.
Sunday morning, nobody showed up. Okay....so I guess she was truly not going to spend Mother's Day with her kids. We went out for lunch, went to watch the new Avengers movie, and overall had a really great day together.
In the morning, Daughter posted some pictures of her and The Ex on Facebook and wrote:
"Happy Mother's day mama. Thank you for being just as obnoxious as me. I may be a pain in your ass but you put up with me. Thank you for taking care of me. I love you."
A few hours later, The Ex commented:
"Love You Sweetie. Thank You" (Okay, that's nice enough.)
Two hours later, The Ex came back and replied to her own comment:
"My Mother's Day gift is to spend it with ALL of my kids. (Uh...if that's your "gift" then why didn't you come get them??)Working a full shift then going back for a later one today...WHAT A MOTHER'S DAY. (Hold up: you managed to get an entire weekend off for your birthday, but you couldn't get off of work on Mother's Day in order to spend time with the people who made it possible for you to be celebrated in the first place?!) I hope you and [Son] are at least having fun with [my name, spelled wrong]" (Daughter read this comment, told us about it and said, "I don't know why she's complaining to me. I didn't make her work there.")
And that's how that day went.
For the last 13 years, the court order has read that The Ex will get the kids beginning at 9am on Mother's Day, regardless of the year. It makes sense; she's their mom, she gets them on Mother's Day. Nothing has changed in that regard. The thing that's nice for me is that since we got custody nine years ago, I also get to spend at least a little bit of Mother's Day with Son and Daughter. Anyway...
I think about 3-4 days before Mother's Day, Daughter tried calling The Ex because she wanted to talk to her about spending more time here in the summer rather than spending the majority of time in Tiny City. The Ex didn't answer but texted back later. Daughter asked if The Ex was coming on Sunday (which was Mother's Day) and received the response, "No." (The Ex used punctuation. She must have been upset.) Still, we can't really bank on that; The Ex has said before that she's going to do A-B-C and then at the last second decides she's going to do X-Y-Z instead. So we "celebrated" on Friday night instead because it would be very much like The Ex to announce at 7:30am on Sunday that she changed her mind again and was on her way to pick up the kids.
Sunday morning, nobody showed up. Okay....so I guess she was truly not going to spend Mother's Day with her kids. We went out for lunch, went to watch the new Avengers movie, and overall had a really great day together.
In the morning, Daughter posted some pictures of her and The Ex on Facebook and wrote:
"Happy Mother's day mama. Thank you for being just as obnoxious as me. I may be a pain in your ass but you put up with me. Thank you for taking care of me. I love you."
A few hours later, The Ex commented:
"Love You Sweetie. Thank You" (Okay, that's nice enough.)
Two hours later, The Ex came back and replied to her own comment:
"My Mother's Day gift is to spend it with ALL of my kids. (Uh...if that's your "gift" then why didn't you come get them??)Working a full shift then going back for a later one today...WHAT A MOTHER'S DAY. (Hold up: you managed to get an entire weekend off for your birthday, but you couldn't get off of work on Mother's Day in order to spend time with the people who made it possible for you to be celebrated in the first place?!) I hope you and [Son] are at least having fun with [my name, spelled wrong]" (Daughter read this comment, told us about it and said, "I don't know why she's complaining to me. I didn't make her work there.")
And that's how that day went.
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