Busy Beginnings

This month has turned out to be very busy. I spent the first week of the month taking care of my friend's, Cyn & Josh's, children while she was in the hospital.  I've visited a couple more times, and while I hate that she's stuck in a brace, I'm glad that the doctors were listening about her problems with surgery.

Cyn sporting her back brace.  This is at week 4 out of 12

I managed to take a class for beginning crochet.  It isn't going well for me, but I'm trying something new which is always adventurous.  I have a lot to learn, and I need to make time to practice.

And counting is really important or you get a parallelogram rather than a square 

Ken is still nursing his broken toe.  He has seen a podiatrist, and we learned that the toe is broken worse than we thought.  Factor in that Ken keeps bumping the toe around, and now we're waiting to find out what the new x-ray shows.  Hopefully, he does not have to have the toe re-broken.


I've been busy with baking and trying new recipes.  Of course, I choose to stick with desserts because it's my favorite.  I found a recipe for indoor S'mores, and the girls loved them.  

Mmmmm.  Indoor S'mores with leftover Christmas sprinkles.  This was soooooo sweet!

I also tried a Lemon Trifle recipe.  I was really nervous about how they would turn out because I really suck at math, and I had to cut the recipe in 10ths and then multiply it by two.  Ken said he was really impressed with it.  Yeah me!

Prior to the chilling and garnish

Ken liked the Lemon Trifle

Ken has been getting involved in our local gun club, and now I have found myself involved as well.  I'm scheduled to help with the archery range for the Women on Target next week.  I had a meeting today for those helping so we could be prepared.  This should be fun.  I'm not sure how much time I have "extra" in a week or a month, but I am finding myself "volunteered" all over the place.  The Club totally needs younger members, but at least there are more people joining and especially more women.


Now, I'm trying to get myself prepared for Monday.  I have to once again face Jackass in court.  He is asking for all of the girls' vacation time as well as requesting to have child support dropped since he "isn't working."  I'm so tired of dealing with him and his whining.  I hate that he won't just support the girls and love them while being fair to them.  It's been 44 months since I left his ass, and he still hasn't moved on.  I'm hoping that I get an order for child support based off his Bachelor's Degree that he got while claiming "disability" and that I get the arrearages as well as a current/future order.  I am also hoping that I can keep half of the summer/vacation time so that Ken and I can continue to enjoy our annual holidays with the girls.  Frankly, I'm just tired of his shit, and I'm out of energy to continue dealing with his ass.  If it was about wanting to spend the time with the girls, I wouldn't be fighting him, but he does nothing when he has them.  It's just about screwing with my life.  Ken and I offered him to allow Ken to adopt the girls and we would dismiss all support, but Jackass wouldn't go for it.  He won't pay for the girls nor will he save for college, but he'll take college away from the girls.  UGH!  So frustrating.  Ahhhhh, thank God for Xanax at this point.


The girls are currently enjoying a quiet weekend at home.  Taylor has her friend Kendyll over, and they were busy working on their Science project (pics to be posted later).  Now, we're going to get a fire going outside and enjoy the evening.