Almost at the end of my week alone without kids. Got throught it ok I thought; no, actually, I was better than ok, I was FINE. But as is so often the case on this journey, as soon as you think you've got into a better place emotionally, WHAM! back to the beginning.

So its the C word.....already! stbx has asked about Christmas arrangements. They not even finished the summer hols yet. I feel like he must have seen some christmas decorations up in Woolworths or something.

So instead of taking time to get to grips with the current situation etc, I am going to have to think about Christmas now. It's

Today's the day

Earlier today my kids went off for the first time to stay at their dad's, and they're gonna be away all week. I thought I would really struggle but managed to get them sorted and off without breaking down. As far as I am aware, and I increasingly think I might be wrong, they think they are spending the week just with their dad and don't know the floosie even exists, let alone that they are (presumably) gonna be forced to spend a whole week with her. Of course it's possible they will come home and say, "dad's girlfriend?, oh we knew about that!!"

Of course they are now getting to

Hi all,

Just a quick entry.

Had the best holiday ever, kids and I enjoy doing just what we wanted, ice creams every day, 6 days out of 7 on the beach, eat when we wanted and what we wanted, it was GREAT.

Lots of laughs, fun, sea, sun.

Thanks to all that left me messages, will blog again soon of what happens when you return to the witches den having had fun