Weekend over

We got to see Christian this weekend. James called early Sunday morning, on our way to breakfast with my parents and asked to pick him up. One of her first questions was whether or not he was alone. James explained that he's married, he won't likely be spending his one day off per week alone. She said that we could pick him up after breakfast. It was so good to get to see him. He was very free with his hugs all day. When he was leaving to go back to his mom, he even gave me a kiss on the cheek that I didn't even ask for. He is such a sweetie! We told him in the car that we got a new house, a bigger one where he'll have his own room and it has a big back yard for playing. We stopped by the old house and grabbed some outside toys. Then we headed to the new house. He loved his new room. James took the kids out back to play football for awhile and got started on more unpacking. I did take time to run out and get some pics of them playing in the yard. Our first day with our whole family here. We finally got to work with Christian on his flashcards. He did really well. He knew most of the letters, his only real problems were G, Y, and M. He did know that the M was the first letter of Maximo (his favorite playstation game) but he couldn't name the letter itself. He did pretty good with sounds too but he needs a little more work on them. I worked with him until he got bored and then later when his attention was back, James worked with him too. Then we went through them one more time for good measure when he was getting his socks and shoes on to go back to Rachel.
Rachel called while he was here three times. The first time, she called from Louise's cell phone to say that she knew we'd had breakfast and that we needed to go ahead and feed Christian soon. Why was she hanging out with Louise when neither of them had Christian? Before we picked Christian up Rachel and James agreed that he'd drop him off at 9pm. About 730ish Rachel called and said that she was going to come pick up Christian. James told her "No" and explained that they'd agreed he'd drop him off at 9pm and he will. She said that she was "out and about" and wouldn't be home so she was going to pick him up. James told her if she wasn't going to be home, we'd just take him to school in the morning. Suddenly, she could be home to meet him at 9pm. She asked to talk to Christian and of course, the first thing he said was "I live far away now". When James got the phone back she immediately went off. He had planned to tell her when he took Christian back that night but didn't get the opportunity. We were working on the timing, we wanted to tell both Brian and Rachel about the same time so that one of them wouldn't get to tell the other and whoever found out second would play the uninformed victim. Well, he had talked to Brian about 5 mins before Rachel called so, they did find out about the same time, unless she heard through the family gossip trail and that is suddenly why she decided to call and pick him up. Although, she picked him up and hour early last time too. Maybe she was just trying to end the visit short for the sake of being a pain. There is no way to ever really know what is going on with her. She called one last time as they were getting in the car to take Christian back to her, again, it was before 9 but she wanted to know if they were on their way. She is so pushy!! Craig rode along with James and I stayed home and put the girls to bed. Rachel drama aside, we had a great time with Christian here. He didn't sit still. He was either running with the girls or getting piggy back rides from me or playing football with his Dad all day long. Jessica cried when he left. She said that she wanted her brother to stay with us. It's really hard to explain all of this mess to her on an age appropriate level. There is nothing about this that is age appropriate. No child should have to deal with all of this stuff, and yet, it affects her so we have to explain it the best we can.


Saturday night was fun. We had dinner and got to chat with lots of people. It's nice that I already know several of the people that he works closely with so, I wasn't sitting there bored and alone with no one around to talk to. I even danced the electric slide with Jill. Towards the end of the evening, James even volunteered to dance a slow dance with me. It was great until a guy bumped into him and the he got all homophobic and detached. He was just ready to get off of the dance floor. He gets HUGE points for volunteering to start with, I didn't think that would ever happen, ever. I thought for sure our wedding day was the first and last time I'd ever get him on a dance floor. The night was really very nice, he remembered to introduce me everytime someone came to say hi. He took me out for a ride on one of the horse drawn carriages, we had our picture taken together, he even got drinks for me. It was a great night. It's not often that we ever have time for the two of us. Usually even when we do, we talk about the kids or Rachel drama all night. Saturday night, we talked about the kids if people asked and then we moved on and actually concentrated on each other. We had a great night together. We got in about midnight and we slept until almost 9am Sunday. It was like a vacation.

Hey MOM! Hey DAD! Thanks for watching the kids! Love ya!