Oh, ya I know what you mean. When the kids express their understanding and you wind up feeling worse. Last week my son had spring vacation. Per the divorce decree it is my week. His father has NEVER taken him (or my daughter) for his vacation week (February), the last time he took the kids for his summer vacation (2 weeks) was in 2004 and last year he blew off his week between Christmas and New Years. EOW visitation is a joke. My daughter wants nothing to do with her father. When my son goes to his father’s house, he normally goes sometime Saturday afternoon and he gets dropped off at home after church on Sunday. Last weekend was the first time my son visited with his father for the entire weekend (Friday night thru Sunday night). Gee, I wonder why that is…Maybe because we are going to court in a few weeks?

Anyway, because I have used most of my vacation time for court hearings (and I get over 4 weeks) I could not even spend any time with my son. So, I let him invite a friend over for a few to go dirtbiking-my husband is on SSDI so he is home all day. (We bought him a bike last fall and he had been itching to ride it all winter-waiting for all the snow to melt.) One night we ordered pizza, he told me we didn’t have to spend money on him and his friend. I bought gas for them almost everyday (my husband went with them one day too). My son told me I didn’t have to buy gas-he wouldn’t ride everyday (he LOVES riding). I told him not to worry about it, it was his vacation and he deserved to have fun (plus it was beautiful weather all week). But…I told him I couldn’t keep buying gas everyday.

I know the whole insurance deal from my daughter...her grades weren’t good enough to get a discount, so we paid more. I paid for driver’s ed and for her to get her license. My ex took her because I thought she would be less nervous in his sedan than in the big SUV I was driving at the time, but he wouldn’t pay the fee. About a month after she got her license my husband and I bought her a used car. Then, my husband put new brakes and some other stuff on it. What he couldn’t do, we sent to a mechanic. So, she probably drove the thing for a week and a half before it had an electrical fire in the dashboard and burned to the ground in our driveway. Luckily she was at home and not driving it. So she drove my car off and on for a few months (and got into 3 accidents).

I looked up Great Wolf Lodge…is it an indoor waterpark? There were a few listed so I wasn’t sure. If it is that place, it looks like fun! Good thing we don’t have any around here or my son would want to go there.