And so I return

Its been a while since I've posted I see. Granted getting things back to the way they were has been a bit of a chore and a touch on the time consuming side.
The kids are back to normal, their old selves emerging after being hidden for a year. Ky is heading into 8th grade now and already set up to be the wide receiver on the football team. Mary and Jr are heading in to 6th grade,first year in JR high! god I feel old..... Mya is the last elementary school hold out. 3rd grade and in a all new school ,here close to the house. She went there once before when we lived with Alyssa,maybe she will decide to take Spanish again.


As for me and John....well we're good. Our relationship has never been stronger. He left burger king and that           combined with my inability to find a job has placed us in a financial burden but we will over come it. We are still holding on to the hope of moving south when its time for us to be called that way.


The ex.....well hes a douche-nugget. He was fine at first when we got the kids back,then him and kyle had a falling out (throwing a full unopened can at a child's face and busting his lip then telling him hes lucky that he didn't place him in foster care last year will do that to a kid.) which resulted in Kyle refusing to go back over there. Kyle hasn't went since December to see him. Fast forward a little bit to today shall we?


Yesterday I got the papers in the mail I was expecting since roughly November when full custody was re awarded to me.The state is taking him back to court for child support. Got the order to appear yesterday in the mail,for the 7th @ 11:30. I knew how this was gonna play out,as its happened quite a bit since I left him in 2005. I didn't expect the call I got today. 


I take the kids and head to Farmers Market like i do every Saturday morning,this particular one they are closing down high st (the main street downtown) for kids day as well shortly after the market so its gonna be an all day thing.Well Market was just wrapping up for us,so we were taking our things to the truck. My phone rang but I didn't hear it I looked up and seen Jr on the phone. Ky looks at me and says "its Kevin" so I shrug and say ok. Jr talked for a few,then handed the phone to Mary. Mary starts getting upset and agitated to the point I ask whats up. She starts telling me about some pictures on her facebook that Kevin is yelling at her about,she finally just flips (and I swear turns into a mini me) and says "why don't you just talk to mom " and hands me the phone. I get on and say yea? He then proceeds to tell me how he doesn't appreciate the pictures that are on Mary's facebook. I said "what are you talking about? " he said" there are a bunch of half naked girls on her facebook wall" I said "well I haven't seen anything like that,Mary hasn't used her fb since right before her bday party" he goes"well they are there" I respond with "well it might be shit others have tagged her in or something. Ill take a look and fix it when I get home" he says " well I'm fucking looking at them on her wall and why are you letting others tag her" I go " uhhh I cant stop the actions of others,I'm not quiet that powerful yet" he then decides to drop all niceness (well niceness for him) " look bitch fucking fix it now. (without pausing to breathe I'm pretty sure) why the fuck is your whore ass going after my money again? john cant take care of you? I told your stupid ass not to fuck with child support you dumb bitch." at this point I interject and point out " I had nothing to do with it....did ya notice the state is the one who filed? " he replies"I don't give a fuck. your whore ass sure as fuck will be the one spending it though"  I reply with "yea well if you actually pay anything this time,I will.....I mean the kids aren't exactly working and making a living for themselves yet they do need shit still right?"  I guess that pushed a button,oddly without me meaning to, cuz next thing I hear is a full description of where I am,who I'm with,what I'm wearing and what I am doing while talking to him . It was a show of his control and an attempt to freak me out.


It worked......at first.See I lived in fear while married to him,in even more fear when I left him. He stalked me for the better part of 3 years after I left him. He broke into my apartments,got private and hidden cell phone information and addresses even when there was protective orders in place....I mean it was really all around bad. Truthfully for about 45 mins I was falling back into that fear role,that scared little girl who was abused,raped,beaten and that he had tried to kill in front of our kids.


Then something clicked.....I'm not her anymore. Yea I cant have legally recognized weapons (damn probation) but I can pretty much turn anything into a weapon (my probation officer actually finds this amusing) . I went through the worst hell I could ever imagine 2 years ago. I lost my home,my kids,my animals and attempted to loose my life by my own hand. I survived that,fought and got my kids back ,fought and got a home for us (even if it is an apartment not a house with yard) and will eventually get complete control back over everything. Hell Ive got my PO saying if I can come up with the 2K for restitution by Dec,she will put in for early release from probation for me.


I will be damned if that stuttering,Hitler looking baboon ass is gonna have a damn say in anything I do. I will be damned if that ignorant ,immoral ass hat will have the ability to scare me ever again. and Ill be damned if I wont whoop a mans ass (or in his case a scared little boy) if he even thinks of trying that shit again. 

Its been awhile

And some shit has changed. Kids are still here,lost another caseworker,go back to court march 19th which is when hopefully all this shit will end. Jr's back on meds.Its a different one this time and so far they are helping it seems. Even his teachers are all happy and stuff. Mary is still shutting people out at times and her temper is getting shorter and shorter but at the same time she seems almost over taken by emotions at times. Mya is as clingy as humanly possible for a 8 year old. Kyle has blessed me (note sarcasm) with the need to contact his biological dad. Ive written the letter,but have yet to mail it. Im not really ready to deal with it. Selfish? Perhaps but its a can I really don't want to open no matter how much it rattles.

John and I are ok,all things considered. His weight has went up,which is bothersome for him cuz it effects all parts of him. We had to go yesterday and have his leg scanned to make sure its ok and there wasn't a blood clot in it. Which BTW there isnt,its just a infection that they have him on antibiotics for. My health is well yea......

This past weekend,sucked. I wasn't feeling well,was run down,sleepy, hurting in my back and stomach,my right leg from my hip to ankle was numb to the point you can punch it and I didnt feel it.....Then I started bleeding.  Which is why I kinda disappeared and was sad when I was around. I went to the doc the other day they gave me more meds for all the different things plus added a few more. The leg is apparently nerve damage ,they think,so Ive been given muscle relaxers and pain pills for that....talk about being completely loopy as shit...oye. On the plus side,even though Ive been off my  BP meds for a month,my bp was low but normal...as opposed to the "dead" range it normally is.

So that's an update on our lives,Really its an exciting time lol

Seriously?!?!?

I don't know what's going on with my life right now. First it was fighting to get the kids back,getting them home only to find out how badly he screwed their minds up.Mary's acting out and shutting down all at the same time and Jr getting full on violent with a new love for cussing that he cant seem to control. Yes I know Jr is still off his medication and normal treatments,but hopefully that will be changed come Monday.

Then you have me. I'm decided to work through my issues on my own with the help of what's his face and Prayer(LOTS of prayer) with a bit of meditation thrown in for good measure.But now I have physical issues that are getting worse rather then better.My headaches are back,I have no energy ,sleep for ungodly amounts of time and am lethargic to a painful degree. Yet that's not the worse part of it. I've got a pain in my lower right side,in my abdomen,almost into the pelvis area that is throbbing and hurting and I have a pain on the same side same area,but in my back as well. I have no idea What it is or is causing it. It hurts to sit,to stand,to breathe,hell I just sneezed and cried out in pain. Going to a doc isn't really an option(yay for being broke) and well we all know my ability to take massive OTC meds and how well they work......so I'm at a loss.

Last but not least,I have John. Supportive,loving,attempting to kill himself via BK ,nerd of mine.He and I have struggled over the last year,have went from barely speaking to close as humanly possible to drifting apart and back again. He said something the other day,during one of the many issues we have had as of late with the kids while talking to me alone that broke my heart and I don't have a way to fix it. He looked at me and said," I'll always be step dad.I'll never be any one's dad" I appreciate his honesty but Ive always been the type to fix things of those who I love and are hurting. I cant fix this one. I didn't know and still don't know how to respond to that.

So yea,life is full of fun times for me.....So fun I can barely contain the excitement.
O yea,I almost forgot ,Mary and Mya tried to steal while we were at Kroger earlier,only to have Jr rat them out.

*sighs,shrugs,and wanders off to put away laundry*

Normalcy?

Mary has her friend here. She was going to come over Friday after school,just ride home with Mary from school,but School was closed. Mary found out and literally spent the first 5 hours awake crying,her first sleep over ruined. God forbid that happen. I spent the morning cuddling her and coddling her,John spent it getting laundry together and trying to figure out if the roads were gonna clear up at all. They did,so John had her call her friend ,get directions and off they went with Jr in tow to pick the girl up and do laundry.

I've never seen Mary in such a great mood. Shes happy,sweet,cuddly,loving.....shes her old self. Not a shell of her old self like we have been getting but her actual self. It amazes me.All it took was her best friend spending the weekend.....I may have to adopt this child I swear.

Granted she knows she is welcome here any time she wants to come over,she's well mannered,sweet,quiet and her dad is the one who knocked Kevin's teeth out and is the one person in the state that may despise him an equal amount to what I do.

So normalcy,if this is it,I hope it stays.

Happiness and Pain....

The kids have been home for almost 2 months now. Has it been easy? Uhhhh Hell no. Its been a patience trying,painful,climactic experience. Yet I'm beyond happy that they are home. Its where they belong.It saves them even if right now they don't see this.


Something happened two nights ago,that I'm still struggling to work through mentally. Mary was just being horrible.Its something Ive gotten used to since she came back,but this was even a little worse then normal for her. So I sent her to bed. It was already eight so its not like she was going to bed beyond early.She went upstairs to her room,laid down and cranked her radio up loud. So up we went to ask her to turn it down to a normal level.She refused ,so it was done for her. Off we walk,to go back downstairs and it goes right back up even louder. So off went the fuse for her room. She unplugged the radio and threw it into the hall.When no one responded to that,she stomped downstairs.She stood on the stairs and was promptly ignored. She then turned hateful. She began mocking John as he talked to me and to Kyle. Started calling him horrible names and just being mean. John ,needless to say was shocked. she was never like that before. He asked me to deal with her,so I called her to me. In the process of talking to her ,you could physically feel the hatred coming from her(I know that sounds weird but I swear to you it was tangible) .It eventually broke me,I looked at her ,fighting back tears said"I would have killed to had my mom even be able to talk to me when I was your age,but I couldn't. Instead I had to watch her die,go to her funeral and deal with it" I broke down at that point and John stepped in telling her to just go back up to bed please. She cried for about 2 seconds (and by cried I mean she had tears fall then the stone went back in place) and she went and stood next to the stairs. She then continued to hurl hateful insults ,even going as far as telling John she hated him and he should get out.after about 30 minutes of this going on and on,I went over and tried to pick her up and take her upstairs. She dropped ,dead weight to the floor,kicking and smacking me,eventually digging her nails in until she drew blood.I walked away from her grabbed my phone and sent a text to her therapist all the while listening to her say how much she hates us . John was honestly scared for her,as she was never like this before.I eventually get to the point I cant take it anymore,and just walk into the bathroom before I loose it completely . I get in there,lock myself in and just break down. While I'm in the bathroom,Kyle says something to her about her being hateful and she says how much she hates him and he should shut up before she throws him out a window. Kyle being Kyle ,says I'd like to see you try. She then grabs him and tries to push him through the living room window. I go to leave the bathroom to restrain her and end up falling to the floor and getting sick due to how high the emotions are. At some point during all this John calls his dad ,as his dad has always been close to Mary but she refuses to even listen. John comes to the bathroom to check on me and to show Mary how bad its effecting me and shes heartless. Eventually he gets the others upstairs into bed and I have Mary lay on the couch next to me. John has to leave for work,hes covering the last 1/2 of a shift for a manager who's out sick. He pulls her to him and talks to her for a bit quietly,but you can hear him and her crying. Kyle is on the stairs and sees it looks at me and whispers "Ive never seen him cry" .You can hear the shock and sadness in his voice when he says it. I don't know what John said to her,but it calmed her down mostly. He left for work,she took my phone and spent about an hour texting him while he was at work (alot of which was telling him to bring her home bacon ).She went to sleep and was fine the next morning.


I don't know what the hell caused it,or even how it was fixed. I don't know if I can deal with that again. I know God only gives us what he knows we are strong enough to handle,but at what point do we know that God is the one handing it to us or that Satan is butting in and playing with us like cheap toys for his amusement? 


I don't doubt my God,but seriously next time that kind of stuff ids gonna happen I gotta have an instruction manual,directions,pictograph,something. Feeling my way in the dark (and it was DARK) I'm not so sure I'm good with and may have came out of all that a stronger person,but with a new found phobia,Nyctophobia