Smile,
Great idea! Love it!

Smile, I am so glad you went back and recognized all your answered prayers. So often we carry on and never give the credit to God. You are such a wise woman. Thanks for sharing.

Daisy, every morning when I do my quiet time at the kitchen table, I begin my journaling with Dear God. I thank Him, seek forgiveness and lay my life and the life of loved ones before Him. He is my constant companion. I hope you get back to writing Him letters. It will be so beneficial.

Smile, I just printed your Life Plan suggestion and am just getting started on it. I'm very excited about it!

Daisygirl

I'm so glad to hear you are trying it. I hope it is as helpful to you as it was to me.

If you need help as you go along, PM me and I'll try to help out. It will certainly make you think.

Please keep us informed.

smile

Bliss (aka #5),
We haven't heard from you lately. How is it going?

So many things going on at once, haven't had time to post. I've been contacting all the lendors, probation officers, classes, employers, friends of Katie's trying to handle her business and Aaliyah developed an eating problem which seems to be getting better as I continue to assure her that I won't be leaving her and will be with her until her mommy returns.

My grandson's father is talking about moving down here in a couple of months to live closer to Katie so that she can be a mom to her son when she gets out.

My husband decided to be "Mr. Nice Guy" and came over to the house with a proposition: He says A and I can move into his house as long as she sleeps in her own room and the extra bedroom would be her playroom, that he doesn't want a bunch of toys scattered around the house. That he is tired of hanging out at the bar (but of course, he's going there tonight again.....), that he wants to spend the rest of his life with me, that he just wants it to be us and have family visit from time to time but never come to live with us again, that he wants me to have larger breasts and he is willing to pay for it....and I'm already a 34C...., whatever, and that he wants me to lose weight and get in shape and get a tan and he'll continue to carry me on his health insurance. Oh, and I found out he took out life insurance on me and has put a password on his email so I can't read it which tells me he is cheating online or looking for my replacement...

But, he wants me to pay for my own gas, my electric here at the house, my water, anything for A, daycare, my own clothes, my co-pays, and he'll pay the rent, my cell phone bill, my car insurance. In other words, if there's nothing in it for him, he won't pay it.

Such a deal!! How could I refuse?? And for that I get what? Him???

I'm doing well at work. They like me. I'm making friends and am starting to have a routine and activities of my own.

Ladies, since I'm married to this man, I could just use him for sex??!! Men do it all the time. But I think you all know me better by now that I"m really not wired that way.

So, my life is chaotic and I still don't know what is going to happen a couple of months from now. He got angry with me because I bought $80 worth of stuff (gas twice for my car and 3 outfits from Goodwill and got my nails done).

My name is on the bank account too but I guess its pretty obvious that its NOT my money too....

Maybe you should tell him to use the money for the boob job and get a penis enlargement instead. Either that or a brain transplant.

AMEN to that Dianne. How dare that alcoholic piece of garbage make such demands on you. He is trying to sculpt the perfect women when he himself is such an imperfect specimen of a man...God my blood just began to boil...the nerve of him. I know you could use him for sex but personally I would rather eat dirt. #5 I hope you stick to your guns of freedom and make this happen for yourself but its your decision, you have the problems to face so whatever you decide so be it. Just remember you deserve better and won't find it dragging on after the drunk....

We made $27,000 on the sale of this house and its been sitting in the bank. Today he went out and traded in his car and bought a new one and paid an additional $12,000 for it so now there's only about $15,000 left in savings and that's the only retirement there is.

Today my 2000 Ford Focus which I"m making payments on died with Aaliyah and I stuck in the middle of a busy highway so I called him to let him know. He was already at the bar and said, "Well, just try to make it home."

He had made plans to go and see his friends about 2 hrs. away tomorrow in his new car. He knows if I have to call into work again I will be fired and I had a babysitter lined up to watch Aaliyah at her house tomorrow while I worked.

when I called him to tell him my car had died, all he could say was that he was furious and said, "What am I supposed to do tomorrow without a car?" I told him I would try to find a ride to work. He was at the bar and said he'd be here at the house soon, but that was two hours ago.

He has been drinking and I"m afraid he will be furious if he even shows up at all. He has left me stranded in the middle of no where at 2am before and wouldn't help me.

I could just leave, but I don't have anywhere to go yet and no money. What if I were to withdraw about $2,000 and take off with Aaliyah to the other side of the state and find a place to live??? I have a friend in Tampa we could stay with for a while...

For heaven's sake take more than $2000. That won't get you anywhere.

Take either all that is left or $13,500 which is half or stay where you are. If you don't feel that much is due you, leave an IOU. Pay it back when you get a job.

I don't know the whole story or what you deserve, but taking a 3 yr old and $2000 in a car that doesn't even run to some place where you have no job and friends who "might" let you stay sounds like an invitation to disaster to me.

smile