With the Valentine's Day weekend filled with a volleyball tournament, hazardous weather, I was further blindsided not once but twice!
As that lifts my spirits, they were lowered twice the distance by the kids telling my about their mother's (and her significant other's) cruise this week. They left Saturday night for a drive from Pennsylvania to Florida, for a five-day Caribbean cruise, then drive back the following weekend. Somebody has to watch the kids, and despite a massive omission in the schedule I'm given by her, that job is mine. For the week I'll be back at the house saving money on laundry, playing with cats, getting a game in or two with the girls, and using their mother's monitor set-up to get caught up with work.
For the first time since college, I'm off for President's Day, but I'll use that time to use the three monitor set-up.
The big news came Friday afternoon. Hey, I've talked it over with the kids and we're probably selling the house and moving up to around Albany in the summer.
Gut-punch on Valentine's Day.
So, before the Peanut Gallery chimes in, completely within her rights, and as she's looking for a new job, probably a better chance for an equal or better salary, preferably for a company where people don't want to shoot their CEO, like she does now.
Grinding everything else in my head, that gives me five more months of time with them.
Practical selfish gamer Dad: Finish those projects you wanted to do with them. Finish painting ponies, a few Gamma World side quests, and a hardcore return to the Egypt game for a few sessions.
Of course, while we're side by side with their Mother, she openly admits that this entire thought process, and finally letting me into it, had been initiated by a single screening call for a job position in that area. Stay tuned....
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