When All You Want is Cereal...

Life hands you bad milk. You know how things go, they even have a law named for the phenomena. Things like when you are running late and your car won't start or you get stuck behind the wide load for 20 miles down the interstate.

Even worst yet you start depending on child support even though you know your ex can't be counted on for anything other than disappointment. He pays for a few months after more than a year of threats and then he stops again. You got use to it being there, and even though you know you shouldn't and you check every single week to make sure you did or are going to.

So what does he make sure he does? He makes sure you have no way of contacting him to let him know that there may be an error somewhere in the line that he needs to take care of. He tells you that all you want is the money even though you offered him the house he made sure you could no longer afford and had to move out of and told him if he moved there you would share 50/50 custody and no child support. He never sees his daughter and says it is your fault stating he can't afford it because you make him pay child support. He doesn't let you point out the fact that maybe him quiting a job where he he was making over $2000 a month to be a pizza boy may have more to do with the fact he doesn't have any money. He makes you out to be the bad guy to everyone you and he knows, but also when he does happen to see his daughter he bad mouths you once every couple of years. He doesn't call his daughter saying he doesn't want to talk to you even though you repeatedly tell him there is such thing as caller ID and scheduled times. He makes sure he acts like an idiot, and not a father or a man.

Onward and Upward

So in 10 days we are heading back to Gatlinburg. In 10 days it is my first year anniversary and Gatlinburg is where we went for our honeymoon. This time we are taking 2/3rds of the kids. The baby went last time even though he didn't have much of a view. My main concern is taking my daughter to go hiking or even to the streets of Gatlinburg (any busy place really). She has a tendency to do what ever she wants to do and not listen. You know fall of the face of a cliff just to spite me... She is dying to go though, she will tell you she has never been on vacation. I tell her before kindergarten there was nothing to go on vacation from.

We are also taking my 18 year old stepson. I have no concerns about him, he's the quiet type. maybe we'll bore him to death or something. I am happy for my husband to finally get to do something with his son. I think this will be there first vacation together, and it may be the last. If the age of his son doesn't stop him the next time the economy might stop all vacations anyway. Hopefully he will enjoy it.

I'm a nature girl. Some people don't think that about me, but when I see a story about hiking the Appalachian Trail , I think wow that looks like fun. Of course I can't find anyone that agrees. I think people don't guess it about me because to me there is a difference with being outside and being outdoors. My yard is boring, national forests with potential for bear attacks are not.

We bought a new camera because on our honeymoon at least 50% of our pictures were blurry. It had never failed us before, but the one picture my husband and I had together was useless. So now we have a very nice new camera and last night my husband bought us a tripod for it. We also stayed at a hotel last time. This time we rented a cabin since we have the kids and there was no way I was being cooped up in the same room as my daughter and this is suppose to be a vacation. We will all have our own rooms in a cabin bigger than our house.

Last time there were maids who wanted a tip. Here is their tip... next time they want to make a rude comment about a client they should make sure they are out of ear shot...