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Quiet Weekend.

All Quiet on the Western Front … at least in regard to the Ex and the home this past Saturday and Sunday. It appears as though no one came to the house this weekend to finish up any packing. As of Friday there were more things missing, but that was from the week’s activities. The wife put tape on the doors so that she could tell if I or anyone else was in the house. I took video as I walked through. I didn’t find anything else damaged other than the internal doors where she broke through days prior. There was glass all over the driveway entering the front of the house though. It looked like the vase and glass beads that I bought with the kids for them to give their mom on Mother’s Day. All the silk flowers were gone. I guess she must have dropped it out of her van when moving stuff and she never bothered to clean it up. Either that or it was a message to me. Funny, I don’t remember getting anything she would have purchased on Father’s day. Oh wait, I do remember … she brought the kids to the dollar store and each one got to pick out an item for me. That was so nice of her.

I FINALLY got to speak with the kids on Sunday evening. I think it had been over 8 days since I last saw them from a distance during the prior Saturday’s Attacking episode (all caught on tape). I think it was 10 days earlier that I had received a 2 minute call at 7:15AM from my eldest as she was being driving to catch the school bus. It was a conversation of “what?”, “what did you say daddy?”, “I can’t hear you” as the reception on the back roads is pretty spotty. The bus was already there and she had to jump out quickly, so the phone got passed over and I ran into the same problem trying to talk with the other ones. Ten days of my leaving voicemail messages of “please have the kids call me” on the Ex’s cell phone and all I got was 6 minutes of “Can you hear me now?”

My middle one initiated the call yesterday and we chatted about her weekend, what she is doing in school, the apple picking trip she went on, her new nephew (step), the constant coughing she is doing (being in her new house), how the new hamster I bought them is doing (I have it), what they have watched on TV, etc. She did have one strange question for me though. “Daddy when you were at the house, why were you laughing about the hole in the door?” I told her that seeing the hole in the door caught me by surprise and I had just laughed in disbelief that someone would have done that.

Other than the laughing question, the same conversation was repeated twice more as the phone was passed on each time. It was 48 minutes in total according to the cell phone history. It was so nice to hear their voices – but left such a sad empty feeling after hanging up.

Nothing was brought up about them having to go to a new school which is what I expected after having received the phone call from the school district 2 days earlier. They called to inform me of the situation and were trying to get in contact with the Ex to let her know that the kids would not be allowed back into school this Monday (today). She would have to register them in the district they are currently living in. Maybe the Ex was able to talk them into allowing the kids to go. She is real good at getting people to believe things that are not true. She might have gotten them to believe that she is living in the district. I don’t know yet.