As a rule, I do not spend alone time with ss13 and sd11. No reason to. However, we recently moved 2 1/2 hours away from skids (yay!), and it happened to work out that I was back in town on Friday, so it only made sense for me to pick them up to bring them home for our weekend. 2 1/2 hours in the car with the skids...I wasn't looking forward to it.

To preface, when we broke the news about our relocation to BM, she started text harassing me about how the kids feel like we are abandoning them, and they feel like money is more important to us than them. It went on and on and came to a head when I took sd to kohl's on one of our weekends to help pick out her new bedspread. BM accused me of trying to buy her love, or bribe her. Why would I be trying to buy her love when I don't give two shits whether or not she loves me? I just thought it was a nice thing to do. My mother always let me help pick out stuff for my room.

Anyway, we went 2 weeks without seeing the skids while we were dealing with moving and new job stuff. During this time, BM was relentlessly texting me guilt trip crap. So when I finally picked up the kids last Friday, I was pretty sure I was going to have a silent, icy drive. But it was not that way at all! I finally worked up the nerve to ask the skids about how they felt about us moving. They were happy! They were mature and wise enough to see that we weren't abandoning them, and that we were only giving up Wednesday night visitation. Nothing else is changing! We will continue to see them EOW. We were actually chatting, and playing car ride games by the end of the trip. I can't believe BM was projecting her pettiness onto them...and that they weren't buying it!

I just smile thinking of how green with envy she is about our beautiful new house (of which the kids took tons of pics on their iPods).