My3Kids,<P>Hey thanks for looking for me. Its nice to fill missed!<P>I was away on a business trip since last Sat. Actually I left Sat since the kids were with their mother and I didn't have anything else to do. So I met up with some work friends who had to fly in on Sat and we had a party at a local guys house and I stayed at his place. Then on Sun I checked into the hotel and went with a bunch of the guys to a sports bar and watched sports all day. It was nice and lots of fun to be able to do that and not have any responsibilities. When I was married, I would have left Sun evening and just crashed at the hotel that night.<P>My x inlaws came into watch the kids. They came on Mon as the kids were at ther mothers on Sat and Sun. The grandparents stayed at my house. Talk about strange feelings!<P>The kids seem to be doing okay although I am sensing some tension in them.<P>On the Sat I left, my x had told the kids she wanted to take them immediately after my son's soccer game and didn't want to come back to my house to get their stuff. However she did nnot tell me and I didn't have them ready. So she was angry after the game that they weren't ready. As I was helping my son pack he was real hesitant and weepy and I asked what was the matter. He said the last time somebody went someplace, they(their mother)didn't come back. He said he was afraid I wasn't going to come back. <P>So I explained that I had to go for work and showed him my itinerary for the week and that seemed to calm him down. I told him I would call every night too. <P>I left late on Sat evening and called him at his mothers around 9:00. Om answered(yeech) and said he was playing at the neighbor's next door and that he would tell him I called (double yeech). <P>I called back later and he was a little upset. He said he and his sister had been fighting and swore at each other. He wanted to know if I was going to ground him. I asked him what his mother had to say about it and he said she didn't know. I said I couldn't do anything since they were at her house. I guess they never told her(how didn't she hear them ?) as nobody said anything about it.<P>Everything else went pretty good(except my meetings) the rest of the week.<P>The kids stayed with Carol(their mother) on Thurs nite too and then she offered to watch them Fri nite too. This wasn't a scheduled night for her either. This made things messy for her parents as they didn't go see her as far as I know. I decided to let them work it all out.<P>The kids both had games on Fri night and by the time I got home the kids had decided they weren't staying at Carols, so They came home after their games.<P>The funny(?) thing was that my daughter had an 8:00 game and Carol told me she wasn't staying the whole time and that she had told Claire. I guess it was date night for Carol and she could stay to watch the whole game. She stayed an hour and then left.<P>I think payback came today for Carol. My son was all excited about Mothers Day. I took hime shopping yesterday for Carol and he kept wanting to buy her all kinds of things. Claire an the other hand didn't want to go and couldn't decide what she wanted to get Carol. I picked out some things the old Carol would have liked, not sure about teh new Carol.<P>I asked the kids if they wanted to go over to their mothers today before she went to work. Claire immediately said no, there was nothing to do over there. So today when we got home from church, I had them call her and my son asked her to stop here on her way to work.<P>So she stopped and they gave her the gifts. I stayed outside. My son helped her put the things in the car but my daughter was no where to be seen. I think she just gave her the gifts and then got back on the computer.<P>Claire didn't have too much to say about the situation and never does. I don't know what I need to do. I had talked to her a couple weeks ago about seeing the counseler again and she said she didn't wnat to go and didn't need to talk to anybody. I guess I'll have to keep my eye on her.<P>My son, Kyle, is pretty good about speaking his mind, so I'm not too worried about him.<P>A funny side note to my hotel stay, as I checked in on Sun, as I was about to get on the elevator, the deskclerk came running up to me and said there had been a mistake and I couldn't have the room as they had booked a woman into the room. I told them I didn't have any problem with that.<P>Topping that was that they gave me another room and when I dropped my luggage off, I noted that there was only one bed in the room. In a cost cutting move, our company was having us stay with room mate. Needless to say, I got that changed to twin beds. My room mate ended up not staying in the hotel anyhow as his mother lives nearby and he stayed with her the entire week. So I went from having a woman room mate to having a male room mate with only one bed to having two beds and no room mate.<P>This stuff and the evenings with my friends were the only worthwhile things the entire week.<P><BR>Hope things are going okay with you. How was your Mother's Day?<P>Thansk again for asking about me!!!!! <P>------------------<BR>"You can't always get what you want! But if you try real hard,you might just find, you get what you need!"<BR>Mick Jagger
