Reminder of Unfinished Business Day

As you well know Monday is always Reminder of Unfinished Business Day. It comes every week, and with it comes - well, reminders of unfinished business.
Today wasn't that bad of a day in that respect. I'm reminded of the biggest pending situation that I have to deal with - my ex husband and how he impacts my children.

the first few hours are always the hardest. As soon as they come into my possession it's a dumping of everything he's done and said over the last however many days. It's hard for me to hear all of it. He's buying our love. He's saying bad things about you. He's having sex with his girlfriend while we're in the house. The girlfriend wants us to move. We hate the girlfriend's kids. etc etc etc. Believe it or not, the ones that I like to hear are the ones that say - we had a good time. we did something fun... as long as that's not followed by  a but then he started being a "butt". Sometimes a part of me gets disheartened when I hear them say that they had a good time - only because I wonder if his ploys and games are conning them. I don't try to dispel it or quash it. Whatever emotion the boys have is their emotion - and they're entitled to it. I don't like it when Jamie talks smack about me. The boys don't seem to like it either. I don't  talk that way about him. It upsets me. It upsets me the way he treats them and the disrespect that he shows me and them. I just don't like it.

I'm hoping that court will solve this, but somehow I know that it won't. it'll still be there in some capacity. Maybe we just won't have to deal with it as much. I don't know. This will be one issue that I won't miss dealing with.

Beyond that, things are moving, I think. I'm not sure what I'm going to accomplish today, but it needs to be something - whether it's packing a box or moving papers around or something - it needs to be progress.. one less unfinished item to deal with. *phew*

onward and upward