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Jan. 26th, 2011 03:39 pmHad various things to post about recently, but with The Bug's new love of climbing high things and dumping whatever he finds up there, little time when it's been safe to spend time on the computer. I swear, that boy's hot happy unless he's at least 3' off the ground.
Still can't get The Bug to talk, most of the time. We know he can talk...every now and then when we're doing lessons with The Miss, he'll come up and participate. He just chooses not to, thhus far. Odd little unit.
Grandma is home, and doing better, although she tires very easily. Mom's trying to figure out and fix her finances. Uncle M fouled up some of it last winter when he was supposed to be fixing things, and Grandma's unwillingness to ask for help did the rest.
Mom's still on a regional council with KNEA, which means she's in for "interesting times", now that Brownback is governor. The more that man talks about his plan for public schools, the more I worry.
Had a very worried phone call from Sis this morning. The Ex, just back from a punitive* stint in Afghanistan, has decided that he is going to sue for full custody of the boys. First, because before he left, he'd told them that he wouldn't see them again if they didn't agree to come live with him when his tour was done, and when they said they wanted to stay with Sis, he got mad and decided to force them. And because, he told her last night, his boys are sissies, and they're old enough that they don't need their momma, they need him to teach them how to be Real Men** (tm). She's terrified that a judge might overlook his record of assult and DUI convctions, and the restraining order (still in effect) that he's not to get the boys if he's been drinking. I doubt that, but she does have an uphill struggle--the boys will tell her, sometimes, about the crap Ex does and says to them, but they won't tell anybody else because they're that afraid of him. I'm trying to encourage her to get the boys to a counselor, in hopes that they'll tell a counselor, and she can use that against The Ex.
* Really. It was punitive, he knows it, and he was, and still is, furious. He had a choice of a felony conviction for assult (on Sis and their youngest son)or going back to Afghanistan. Only problem with that solution was that nobody shot him while he was there.
** By and I are convinced that the Real Men description basically means he's going to beat the boys, because that's how Real Men are made in The Ex's world. I have pointed this out to Sis, trying to help energize her for what's likely to be a nasty fight.
Still can't get The Bug to talk, most of the time. We know he can talk...every now and then when we're doing lessons with The Miss, he'll come up and participate. He just chooses not to, thhus far. Odd little unit.
Grandma is home, and doing better, although she tires very easily. Mom's trying to figure out and fix her finances. Uncle M fouled up some of it last winter when he was supposed to be fixing things, and Grandma's unwillingness to ask for help did the rest.
Mom's still on a regional council with KNEA, which means she's in for "interesting times", now that Brownback is governor. The more that man talks about his plan for public schools, the more I worry.
Had a very worried phone call from Sis this morning. The Ex, just back from a punitive* stint in Afghanistan, has decided that he is going to sue for full custody of the boys. First, because before he left, he'd told them that he wouldn't see them again if they didn't agree to come live with him when his tour was done, and when they said they wanted to stay with Sis, he got mad and decided to force them. And because, he told her last night, his boys are sissies, and they're old enough that they don't need their momma, they need him to teach them how to be Real Men** (tm). She's terrified that a judge might overlook his record of assult and DUI convctions, and the restraining order (still in effect) that he's not to get the boys if he's been drinking. I doubt that, but she does have an uphill struggle--the boys will tell her, sometimes, about the crap Ex does and says to them, but they won't tell anybody else because they're that afraid of him. I'm trying to encourage her to get the boys to a counselor, in hopes that they'll tell a counselor, and she can use that against The Ex.
* Really. It was punitive, he knows it, and he was, and still is, furious. He had a choice of a felony conviction for assult (on Sis and their youngest son)or going back to Afghanistan. Only problem with that solution was that nobody shot him while he was there.
** By and I are convinced that the Real Men description basically means he's going to beat the boys, because that's how Real Men are made in The Ex's world. I have pointed this out to Sis, trying to help energize her for what's likely to be a nasty fight.
