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Thank you for the kind comments regarding our court day yesterday. My husband and I came home and spent our afternoon thanking God that our son's peace was restored. The actual money involved will most likely always be hard to actually ever see, for this person has rarely sought or kept employment, but it was never about the money... My husband has taken two days off of work to come home and be here just in case there is any backlash from yesterday's results.....I am proud to have him home and we'll enjoy letting him in on our homeschooling days with daughter. This morning I woke up with the most wonderful freedom of knowing we are past the hardest part of any court proceedings, and I have to say, it feels wonderful! After court yesterday we had picked up son from school and daughter from another friend and took them so they could have lunch and spend a little time with their dad while he was here in Alabama. I couldn't imagine coming 7-8 hours and not seeing my children if the shoe had been on my foot....we had allowed dinner last night with him when he showed up without warning, but I did expect them to come home at 9 p.m. We have never allowed strife to interrupt the children's time with their dad when he is available. He truly seemed surprised for some reason yesterday I was willing for the children to see them after court, we checked Chase out of school for his lunch break, and took them to a restaurant where he could meet them, the school agreed to allow Chase an additional 45 minutes because of some special scheduling without penalty.....I don't know why their dad was surprised, during fall break we drove them 8 hours for him to have a visit for 5 days when it wasn't his time, but fall break weekends are about the only time in the fall it makes for a long enough visit. We will do the same thing with Thanksgiving since they are out a week, though its "my year" to have them.....children need to know their families.....they have always been close to their cousins and I don't want that to stop....and the children should not be punished since their grandparents and aunts and uncles love them too. Today I am taking a morning off to simply relax and enjoy the outcome of knowing we're not in court again for a very long time. Dh is teaching Madison mid morning, so I will get her started then he has an activity with her in the refuge nearby. What a wonderful gift! Madison's natural dad moved out when she was 18 days old, so my Dh is truly the daddy she knows...we married when she was 5. She loves her natural dad but Dh is Daddy in her heart. Yesterday when we arrived home I had cleaned the kitchen before we left and started a roast in the crockpot. It was a real gift to myself to come home to the clean space and smells of a roast in onions, carrots and potatoes.....I am thankful for a home and especially thankful that I am home now to live in it full time, and homeschool within it. For so long I was a teacher at university and public school level always going somewhere afterschool and many evenings to keep our life paid as a single mom, it was a hard life and I am thankful Dh has brought me home and chooses to sacrifice financially to support our family having a wife and mom at home. God is good and he has restored so much of what was taken from me.....and continually amazes me as he continues to be a God of restoration in my life. God is good
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Posted by CheleLew