Fantastic news, Moore! What a blessed relief for all of you! Please tell NCD that we applaud her and wish her all the best of luck. And Happy BD AZD. Now she's 21 and vaccinated, Moore, watch out, hun.

Got my hair done today and as great as it feels, it doesn't make up for the hideous PUFF from the *&^%$$# steroids I've been taking. I can't wait for this to be over.


MYSTERY solved. That little dooddlie dad thingy came from the front hall light fixture. It was one of 8 little rivet thingies and Maria knew it straightaway the second she saw it. I am now officially stupid beyond words.

YAY -- mystery solved!! Now aren't you glad you didn't throw it away? You must also feel very good about being all glammed up again.

Shelly, NCD is going to be doing essentially the same thing she was before. She'll be doing editing for an ad agency, and it's located not far from the one she worked for before. This one is bigger, though. Unfortunately, although she's full time, and the pay is the same, it's currently without benefits. As I understand it, that may change later, but we're not quibbling right now! She's employed, and fairly quickly at that. Whew!!

AZ daughter had an early celebration last weekend when a friend threw her a party. Spring break begins today, so a lot of her friends will be leaving town. Kyle, however, is taking her to dinner tomorrow night, and Jim and I are going to treat both of them. Then, next weekend, AZD and our son are going to Las Vegas.

Yep... Our son is flying out to Phoenix, and then they'll drive up together. One of Jim's acquaintances out there (someone he hasn't even seen in a couple of years) has offered up her HOME, and has even gotten the kids some tickets to a show. (I don't know which one.)

Okay, so now I need everyone's advice. WHAT do I get this nice lady, someone I don't even know, who's taking in not one but TWO of my children into her own home as a thank-you gift??? I know nothing about her, and Jim knows very little. I can't even believe that she's nice enough to do this, but she says that she has a large house, and frequently has guests. So...

But what do I get her???!!!???



-- Edited by Moore ideas at 16:29, 2009-03-06

Moore, what about a lovely big basket filled with yummies and wines (if she likes wines) with chocolates, biscuits, nuts, all kids of little things one often won't buy themselves. I'll see if I can find a good web site.

One Christmas, a grateful couple of brothers that Ted did some extra freelance work for, sent us a basket like that and I'll never forget it. Ooh, it had some really good jam in there too. And now I use the empty basket for toilet paper in the downstairs bathroom.



Gift Basket with Napa Wines

-- Edited by KaeEll at 08:33, 2009-03-07

If the lady doesn't like wine....


Another idea for a thnak you present

If nothing else, gift cards are always good. They have a Ruth's Chris in AZ. You could send her to dinner and a movie. Let us know what you decide.

I hope AZ-D is having a great birthday

Ok so guys, I got to see the kids on the 5th. We had court that day. I had a lawyer he did not so he asked for a continuance until he could get one. Sooo no hearing. Cody will be talking to the judge no matter what though. However Decatur lawyer (I have a team kinda now) did get me visitation. I got the kids from friday until Saturday at noon and Bethany is very very mad at Floyd in fact she begged and cried and pleaded with him to not have to go with him.

Ok so get this also .. While he was at the house he tells me that I'm such a good mother.. he loves me and was surprised that I did not have my ring on.

I am definitely telling my lawyer and the judge about the good mother thing. I asked him if this was all the case why he got an order of protection against me and his response was that he got scared or something. He didn't want things to be like this. My response was plain and simple that it did not have to be. I had planned on making this as easy on him as we could but nooooo! Anywho I think he realizes he doesn't stand a chance and he's asking to possibly sit down with me and talk .. well i told him not without my lawyer of course. The whole thing just proves that his order of protection should be pretty easy ot overturn. If I was such a danger to him or the kids he would have asked for supervised visitation with the children. Anyway I like my Decatur lawyer. He's really informative and nice. Made me feel soooo very comfortable with the process. I was scared to death at first and he helped me get my confidence up and feel like that courtroom was all mine.

So the kids got absolutely spoiled and the day that I had them. We went to the mall. I got their hair cut, we rode the carousel, and I bought them pretzels. I also got them the new Madagascar movie and some hair ties for Bethany and nailpolish. My second day I had to work so they got to sleep over at my mom's which made her day! Before then though my friend Will treated us to Olive Garden.

I have some wheels for a little while. This same friend lost his license in November for 6 months so until May I have his car. Only stipulation is that I have to take him to work or give him a ride if he needs. He's Nora's brother. Their whole family has been just amazing through this whole ordeal. It's like having a second family lol.

Anyways I have lots to do so wish me luck and I'll be back shortly with more of an update.. hopefully instead of "visitation" it'll be all about the custody :) gotta get this stupid order of protection dropped first

Hang in there Jessica! I'm so glad that you have a good lawyer (and one that you like), but am sorry that you and the kids are going through all of this.

Keep us posted...