Is she nice? I guess so, they both said. What's her name? We don't know, we can't remember. Hmmm, apparently she didn't make much of an impression. The kids seem kind of blasé about this new-to-them development. Or they should be nominated for the next Academy Awards. They both are like - Dad has a girlfriend, uh, that's kind of weird but whatever.
The kids appear to be doing okay with the situation and you know what, so am I. Kellie Pickler is singing a verse from my theme song - 'I've got my pride and she's got you.' I think of the ex and his tall girlfriend together and I laugh, 'cause what else can you do....AND the visual in my mind is pretty damn funny.
Happy Monday y'all. Now that my kids are back home again it's going to be a great day. The sun is shining, the temperature is supposed to be 70 degrees and the puppy only peed twice on the floor this morning. What more can I ask for?
Ahhhh....that's so funny. One of the only things my kids said after meeting Skanenstein was "She's tall, Mom. Real tall. And her feet? THEY'RE HUGE." One of the only times I've felt like a petite flower, ha!
ReplyDeleteYou're taking this in stride, friend. Good for you. And damn I love me some Kellie Pickler!
this made me lol " Or they should be nominated for the next Academy Awards. "
ReplyDeletethe reason they are handling this well is because you have done such a good job handling it as their mother
My tongue is bloody from trying to handle it. Lol. But I won't make this any harder on the kids so I keep most of my hurt and anger from them. Maybe at some point I will tell them how much their father decimated me when he left but not now.
DeleteYou WILL love again and this woman will mean very little to you. You will eventually see her as just a flawed, ordinary person like any of us are. Maybe he did find his soulmate. So what. When you find yours it will matter little that his came first. There is something worthy and right on every path that branches from every fork in all roads. Good things and good people will come in to your life that you would have missed as a woman in an intact but unsatisfying marriage.
ReplyDeleteI hear your words but if/when I find my soulmate (and I giggle when I write that 'cause I don't think that really exists except in fairy tales, just a little jaded am I now) but that's going to be hollow consolation for my kids. Maybe they'll be fine and it will just be part of their lives I guess. I won't ever get over my bitterness about what this means for them though.
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