3 posts tagged “holidays”
We met with our lawyers this morning for a few hours to talk about goals for the separation period, how things might evolve with custody and visitation over time, how to separate our finances so that j and I each control our own expenses and debt, and whether or not we might proceed collaboratively rather than litigating the case. J and his attorney refused service of the actual divorce filing with the hope that at our next meeting in January good faith efforts toward collaboration will have been demonstrated and I can then withdraw the petition for absolute divorce on fault grounds and commit to the collaborative process instead, which has several advantages for all of us.
...boy do they go quickly! The kids headed off to school this morning and I went to the grocery store to get food for dinners and some more cereal and snacks. Came home and put everything away, emptied the dishwasher, scooped the litter box (gotta make a note to teach Peyton how to take care of this on her days at home!), and curled up in front of the TV with the kitten.
I woke up in a good mood this morning and it went downhill from there. Instead of getting up and getting dressed like they usually do, even Peyton was grumbling, and Carson immediately started whining. Despite the entire basket of clean clothes plus 24 pairs of new socks, the boys were freaking out that they couldn't find socks. I ended up threatening them with 30 minutes earlier bedtime when they were still in bed 15 minutes after "wake up call." I yelled at them about the fact that they'd never bothered to put away the laundry before leaving for the weekend, and I brought Logan to tears, right along with me- something I swore I would not do this week.
