Well I haven't been on here for a while and I see its a year since I wrote my blog - things may be slowly getting better but when they're bad they're awful. 

 My boys are both away on holiday at the moment so my daughter's with me and is so excited about the new baby .... my ex's GF is expecting their baby in about 10 days - I call him my ex but the divorce is still not settled.  Its 3 years since we separated after 16 years of marriage and he's arguing about the finances still.  We went to court about a month ago and the judge suggested we might both have to sell up and down-size to pay the

In the 3 weeks since I last posted, my ex hasn't seen my eldest son at all - I've told him he should apologise for hitting him, but he says he will but can't guarantee he won't do the same thing again!  He's 43 and my son's 16 and he's behaving like the child here - I can't believe he can let this go on for so long.  He usually sees the kids once or twice a week and he's seen the other 2 in the last few days and completely ignored the fact that my son is sitting inside the house while he's outside with my other son.  Unfortunately all his family seem to like to sulk when they don't get their

What a week of ups and downs - I should be used to it by now.  Last week my house flooded when one of the kids left a tap running and it poured through all three floors of my house into the basement.  As I try and sort it all out, my ex has a furious row with my eldest son, full stand up fight in the street outside and then son runs away, comes back an hour later and packs a bag and leaves.  Doesn't come back for 2 days and then we talk and try and sort some of it out.  We're both treading on eggshells all week, but took all 3 kids and my sons girlfriend up to London yesterday and had a great