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Seriously, I can't remember the last time I was this happy and relieved that it's finally Friday afternoon!

On top of the things mentioned in my last blog, this is Homecoming weekend and therefore the students were crazy, excited today! Thus making for a long, exhausting Friday for this Spanish teacher!

Saturday night my kids go to their Dad's and G's brother and sis in law are coming over for pizza and wings. Rhonda is supposed to with Flan too. I hope she does. We've never all gotten together before and it will be fun to have an adult night!

I have Monday off and my kids will be with their Dad still. I think I'll still have G's son though. I sure wish he was off. That would make a good, early birthday present for me.

It's kind of a bummer that G has a therapy appt. for his daughter on my bday Thursday. Even worse that it's at 7pm and he doesn't get home until almost 5:30 usually...so there won't be much time before he has to leave again. Then he won't be home much before 9, 8:30 at the earliest.

Luckily my Mom is going to make dinner for me though. I was worried because she mentioned having an appt. that day too. I was getting really depressed thinking of my birthday alone. I don't want to spend any of my single "firsts" alone. Each holiday, occasion and special day will be different and therefore hard on some level. I tend to get depressed around my birthday as I get older and I really don't think it has much to do with getting older. I think it's more that it doesn't seem much different that a regular day.

I think childhood spoils us and sets us up for let down. When you're a child/ teenager everyone makes a fuss about your birthday. Cupcakes in school, early morning phone calls of birthday wishes, cards in the mail, family parties, friend parties, cakes loaded with sweet frosting and your name spelled out in your favorite color, presents... lots of presents! Then after about the age of 21, people acknowledge your birthday less and less. The cards and phone calls have just about disappeared, no parties, sometimes not even a cake and many less (and much less exciting) presents!


Marissa needs pink tights before tomorrow. No place in town sells them of course. I need to meet G to drop off his son to his mom for the weekend at 5:00. I know it's going to be a difficult night for Kevin. No other kids will be home and he can't leave the yard. He's going to feel tortured.

Last week, I finally received notice that they are doing testing on Kevin for learning disabilities. I am so happy about this and it just can't be done quick enough in my opinion. I've wanted it done since his first year in Kinder. I just want him to have the help and support he needs and above all, I want his best to be good enough. I know how frustrating it must be for him to work hard and still fail spelling tests. He usually knows the words when we send him to school, but he says the teacher goes too fast. Most of his math and spelling tests are timed, therefore much harder for him. He's doing better in Math than reading but his teacher still sees a deficiency in both subjects.

The divorce papers are signed and notarized. I was rather surprised how void of emotion the process made me. I think it helped that I went to sign them by myself instead of with him like I did the separation papers. Plus the separation papers were more wordy and spelled it all out (the end of a union!!) The divorce papers were more cold and less wordy.