So its the start of my week long stint with the children, they have been with me since 10.00 a.m. yesterday, we had an afternoon playing then it was a trip to the cinema to see Wall-E, which is great if you are looking for something to go and see.

Then a trip to the shops to buy food for the next few days, home, dinner some time in front of the box, and kids to bed nicely by 8.00.  Kids up at 7.30, breakfast together, bath time, did bath this morning as we ran out of time last night.

They have to go back to my ex, for 4 hours this afternoon, something to do with new blokes family. But then they

This week saw the 9 month mark come and go - 9 months since he left, 9 months of varying degrees of varying emotions, 9 months of finding myself again and growing stronger. 

During this period, communication with him has been very sparse, mainly through the sols, as was my request. However this week there has been a flurry of text messages in relation to the possiblity of him buying me out of the house. At first, it was ok, I thought - this is good, we are finally getting somewhere, getting things sorted, but the tone changed and then he said he didnt know what he was going to do - typical,

Decided the best thing for me was not to communicate with my ex so I have deleted her phone number - this has worked quite well for the past week.

I found out that she had planned to go away this weekend with her new fellow as it is his birthday.  All good with me - it would mean that I would have my son for the whole weekend.

This morning she texted me saying 'will you look pick up son on Friday as I have booked to go away this weekend it you can not then I will take him with us.' Now this made my blood boil she seemed to be blackmailing me; look after son or I will take him away on dirty