My divorce was long, difficult, and messy. We’d discussed finalizing the paperwork, but my ex outright refused to pay his half. “I’m Catholic. I don’t believe in divorce.” Yeah. Catholic. Right. Anyway – everything was done except for the decree. I didn’t have the piece of paper that said IContinue Reading
Whenever somebody new comes into my life and becomes aware of my continual issues with my ex-husband, I always, always, always get asked the same question. Especially if they’ve had some opportunity to meet him. Why did you marry him? They’re truly perplexed that the woman before them—who seems soContinue Reading
Flower and Puck and I were walking with Bae in his stroller to school. They were a little behind me and Bae. I’m not quite sure what Puck said, but I Flower was incredibly offended by it. She does this quite often—melts down because Puck has said something. Usually he’sContinue Reading
I am, yet again, shaking with rage. It happens every so often, and the trigger is generally the same. If you’ve been regularly reading my blog, I’d hazard you can guess who it is. I’m trying. I’m trying so very hard to make everything simple. I break down every transaction,Continue Reading
There came a day about six years into my marriage, just after my ex celebrated his 40th birthday, when I realized his parents would have recently had their 40th wedding anniversary. You might think this an odd thought. Wouldn’t I know? Wouldn’t there have been a celebration of this fateful event? WhyContinue Reading
Are you wading through a new world, coparenting after divorce, and feeling like you’re completely helpless and don’t know what to do? Checking out Divorce Blogs is a great start. But there are other tools…psychologists, divorce attorneys, mediators. And you don’t have to splash out—some of them have written some fantasticContinue Reading
You may recall earlier this month I did a blog review on some of my new favourite Mommy Bloggers. If you missed it, look here: Blogger Reviews Part Deux – Mommy Bloggers! Jessica Terry from 4 the Love of Mommy has graciously agreed to write a guest post. I am sureContinue Reading
A few days ago, Flower’s preschool had a tea in advance of Mother’s Day. One of the boys there, in Flower’s class, I had just learned was destined to “marry” Flower (according to his mother). I was a bit surprised. I was aware that she’s played with this particular littleContinue Reading
You’ll all recall that about three weeks ago now, I wrote a blog about trying to settle the children’s summer vacation with the Goblin King. As you all know how cooperative he is, of course that went extremely well and we have the vacation planning done and settled. Yeah. Right.Continue Reading
So…more fun with my exchange e-mail from the Goblin King today. Puck, as you all know by now, has a learning disability. Recently, he convinced his dad that he was sick so that he didn’t have to do a math test. (I discovered the problem and he did do the mathContinue Reading
