Visitation

My ex husband only gets Taylor and Colton 3-4 times a year. His visitation goes as follows 12/26 to the day before the kids go back to school from Christmas break, spring break, 42 days in the summer and every other Thanksgiving. He sent me a text last month asking if he could get the kids this weekend because it was a 4 day weekend for them. I said of course, I won't ever keep the kids from their father if I can help it. I probably would have even canceled plans with them so that he could see them, because obviously he does not see them enough. I figured he would get them Thursday evening/Friday morning and keep them til Monday. Nope. He is picking them up on Saturday morning. Colton has a game that afternoon at 3:15pm and then football pictures Sunday at 4:30. So the weekend that he gets the kids, I have to see him the whole freaking weekend. Now that he is divorced from his second wife we have a great relationship. He doesn't bother me and I don't bother him. That means peace for all of us. The sad part is that Taylor doesn't want to go. This is the same kid who 2 years ago BEGGED to let me go live with her dad and his wife. Now she is telling me, I don't want to go, can't I just see him at the game? Granted as soon as she sees him she will change her tune. She is really a daddy's girl. But I see the tides shifting. She is wanting to be home more and Colton is way more interested in his dad. He calls him and texts him a lot. Which is good for both of them. Colton needs to know that his dad is available to him at all times and I know it makes his dad feel good. The funny thing is that when Taylor was begging to go I would never let it happen. There is no way. Colton on the other hand, I love that boy more than life itself, enough to understand that he needs his father. I would see what we could work out and let him go I think. Anyway everyone has ditched me for Colton's game tomorrow so I have to go alone. Yikes, I hate having to sit with him cause that is what will end up happening. Kamdyn will be all over him cause he is Taylor and Colton's dad and she doesn't understand the intricacies of a blended family. Taylor and Colton love her daddy and are always with him, why can't it be the same for her?