I love your writing! I totally experienced it and I love the 'headlights that managed to look surprised...'

Yeah, MG!!!

{must watch those videos!}

Way to go, MG!

This is totally awesome news! I'm happy for you and glad the mediation went so well.

Here's to you and Nick! :cheers:

Thank you!!!

I do believe that I honestly surprised David. One of the things he told Boy was that I had organized everything on the 4th to make sure Dawn couldn't go. So, I said in front of the mediator, that I had already reassured his family that, when they had a family function and wanted both of their grandsons there, I have no problem with dropping Nick off and picking him up later, or that they could come get him any time. I went on to say that I had said this on numerous occasions. That goes against what he thought about the 4th. He looked stunned to find out that I had said anything like that to his family (which is why I made sure to say it).

He seems to have no backbone when Dawn isn't around. I find that funny. I am/was not a controlling spouse. Now he is stuck in a situation of his own making.

The court date is July 30th (my moms's 70th b-day). It will be interesting to see how he tries to slam me over finances. I just hope he has to pay me back child support from April.

Congrats, MG! He is in a hell of his own making, and he deserves it. You stick to the high road and you'll continue to come out ahead.:cheers:

WTG MG!

Stay strong. You know you did nothing wrong. These were his choices and is his creation.

Stick it to him!

You just stay on the high road, you'll always win out in the end -- especially in the eyes of your future-adult child!

Hurray MG. I was hoping things would turn out nicely for you.

I haven't had a coherent dream I could remember the next morning in quite some time. But last night, I dreamt that I was still living at home. And I came home after work or an errand to find both garage doors and the front door open and lights on. And the place was entirely cleaned out. Well, it was entirely cleaned out at first, but then when I went inside I could see it was cleaned out of anything important, but the miscellaneous detritus of daily living was still there.

It was clear that in the dream we had been robbed. All our possessions of any value were gone. Although in my dream my two cats lived there, and we did find them.

I called people to come home immediately. A crowd gathered. We wondered how it was that no one had seen anyone stealing this stuff and leaving the house wide open. At some point, someone outside the family brought me something they'd found down the street - it was something (I don't remember what) that had been in my purse - which apparently had also been stolen.

I asked him where he found it, and some of us went down the hill to that location (a neighbor's lawn) and rooted around in the grass. We came up with lots of little things that had been in my purse. I was particularly looking for my grandmother's wedding rings, which I kept in my purse. (Not in real life, of course. I'm not that stupid.)

We found the Ziplock bag in which I'd kept the ring (also not in real life) and the ring was gone, but in its place was a pendant (that doesn't exist in reality) that had originally been loose in my purse. Why the burglers a) didn't take the pendant, which was valuable and b) bothered to put it in the bag formerly containing the ring, was a topic of much discussion.

Then we were talking about what to do next, because I needed to find that ring. Too much sentimental value. Should I go to pawn shops? In what areas? Or fax photos? And did we have photos?

And then I woke up or something.

Huh... weird. Perhaps this relates to your el jay - that you feel something valuable which meant a lot to you (desired job) has been replaced with something unfamiliar and of lesser value, and you realizing the importance of not accepting the lesser item, and instead finding your way to the more valuable one, and wondering how to make it happen.

Worst real estate property photos collection: http://www.visualtour.com/applets/fl...teamfisher.com

It ends up being an ad for some kind of virtual tour, but it's hilarious, he's got commentary on the bad photos and everything.