April Fool!

For the last few weeks, we have been receiving emails from CB, in which she sounds EXTREMELY amicable. They are lovely letters, all about wanting to do better co-parenting, willing to be listen to our input on items,,,they are albeit peppered with some distortion of reality... they are written as if Jack as been the difficult unagreeing emotionally child abusing parent... but none the less.. they are all very SANE sounding.

You would think this would give us cause to be happy! For us to jump for joy and say....."Ahhhh...her meds have finally kicked in! This may work out!".....which we did the first time we started receiving emails like this several years ago. But unfortunately......we have since learned what these emails mean... and they are no cause for celebration.

When these emails start coming.....two-three weeks later....a letter from CB's latest lawyer (#6 I believe) arrives threatening a law suit. She sends these emails because she thinks they will show her to be a normal individual. We have been expecting this one and sure enough,,, her pattern has held out and the latest one arrived April Fools Day. Completely fitting, I thought, considering who sent it.

This time we are being threatened to be sued for the following reasons...

• Because we would like to have Kelly play on the same baseball team as her step brother (as she did last year) so that we can get them both to their games. All three of our kids are in baseball... baseball is on the same evening every night, there is only two of us.... so do the math.. we can't be in three places at once. CB only ever attented two games last year but for some reason has a huge issue with this.
• CB claims that Jack refuses to go to mediation with him, although Jack has informed CB several times that he is more than willing to go if she will pay her half.
• Vacation schedule.... now this one is funny... when settling their divorce agreement CB INSISTED that the agreement be that both parties had to submit their 3 week vacation times with Kelly by March 31 and if they don't, they do not get their vacation with Kelly. Each year we have submitted our holidays dates WELL BEFORE the due date. CB has NOT ONCE,,, NEVER! Which makes it incredibly hard for us to plan our summer excusions or to try to co-ordinate with my exhusband vacation dates with our kids. She will contact us 2 days before she would like to have Kelly and expect us to cancel all our plans. We have stupidly complide as we don't want to punish Kelly for her mothers inconsideration. This year we told CB we would not be complying, that she must get her dates in on time. That this can't continue. CB has informed us that it is UNFAIR to make her submit by the date that SHE set (although she still feels we must)... she says.. that Dave's (her commonlaw) exwife doesn't submit her holiday dates to them until later.... so they wouldn't be able to co-ordinate the childrens holidays so that they can have a holiday alone for themselves. WELL HELLO, FUCKTARD! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU DO TO US EACH YEAR??? CRY ME A RIVER ABOUT BEING UNFAIR!! We have not been able in 4 years to co-ordinate holidays with my ex because she refuses to give us her dates..... and the only way we get to have a little holiday to ourselves without kids has been to either hire a nanny or find a relative who will watch them. GET OVER YOURSELF, LADY!
• And lastly... and this one I almost peed myself laughing about... the lawyer requests that Jack refrain from having ANY MORE verbal hostility towards CB and as well to refrain from bringing up contentious issues in front of Kelly anymore and to limit those discussions to emails. I will tell you,,, I go with Jack to pick up Kelly every time,, I sit in the car while he goes to the door to get her... its not 10 feet from the car.. I can hear every word exchanged... I have never heard Jack raise his voice to CB.... and when she has on the NUMEROUS times started BITCHING very loudly about some issue she is angry about right in front of her child... sometimes even going so far as to drag the child right into her tyrade by questioning the child about incidents.. or telling her "You tell your father this...".. that Jack has always calmly told CB that this was not the appropriate place to discuss this and has led Kelly to the car. In fact, I cannot even think of a time when even dealing with her on the phone after Kelly has gone to bed that he has even so much as raised his voice to her... even on occasions where he probably should have. I can't even count anymore all the copies of phone messages we have saved of CB calling our home that are so foul... one would think she was a drunken sailor. LOL.. she has even gone so far in the past to leave messages for Kelly that go.. "Kelly this is your mother calling... and you tell that asshole father of yours that when you get home baby I am going to tell you all about the games he is playing"....... and then hired a lawyer because we were not playing the phone messages to Kelly!

You know... I am trying to keep my humor about all this...... but it is getting increasingly hard... it has been so many years now... and there is no sign of it ever stopping... like a woodpecker tapping at your head day in day out.....quick.....someone hand me a slingshot.