Finally a great day!

After a tought week dealing with court, temporary child support, health insurance and daycare payments, which I'm not paying daycare as I was available to watch my child, I have my daughter this weekend. After breakfast we cut up apples for apple sauce watched some of Empire NY Show Case Day, we went out to cut up some dead ash trees, I have a good helper. Soon we will be heading out to get cat food for the barn cats then to the farm to feed the horses and cats. Lol.

Glad to hear your having a good day

Bet she had a good day too. Just exploring can be so much fun for young kids.

Looks like a great day! Keep up the great job you are doing.

Used to love to buy our girls those colorful fun little caps and boots when they were small.

Kinda makes you and your daughter forget the other nonsense going on, best thing you can do is exactly what you are doing, it is great to see a glimpse of it here, she'll be the best non hired help you'll ever find ! One of my long time friend since our youth, recently went through a similar thing, even caught grief over his 2 little helpers.... helping, they tried to make activities like this a bad thing, not safe, (all fancy words that sound terrible but mean nothing) and get custody. Some people are just too narrow minded for their own good!

I hear you! As you can see she's going toward a little pile if sticks, she said a year or so ago daddy lifts the big one I do the little ones! Smart kid! Lol. That's what I was thinking it takes your mind off that nonsense, seeing how this had been I feel unfair, althought it's not over, I now really get the meaning of life's not fair!

Been three years since my son got divorced and the drama queen still causes trouble every chance she can, but it is more of an annoyance than anything.

oldest son and 1st wife split was rather amicable, stuff hit the fan after both remarried, ended up with a granddaughter living with us for 3 yrs. the steps still dont accept her and have a fit if the parents try to help her with anything

It has always amazed me how simple times with kids can sooth a terrible attitude/day. Also it is amazing how a person you once thought the world of, can now be at the top of your imaginary "hit" list. LOL

Jay I hope you can get some satisfaction thought the courts. Your daughter will be grow before you know it. She will remember the time you can spend with her. She will also KNOW who caused what trouble in her life too.

My one DIL comes from a divorced family where the Mother took her father to the cleaners and in general made his life a living hell. The day she turned 18 she walked out of her Mother's house/life and has NEVER been back PERIOD!!! So kids KNOW more of what is actually going on then most of us adults think.

Keep up the good Father practice!!!!

She needs a pair of the Hot Pink Coveralls that I saw at The Tractor Store yesterday.

Thanks JD, you took the words right out of my mouth, someone you think so much of and love and now there on you imaginary hit list! I did talk to another lawyer also, they said to relax, just wait for the end of the trial if mom won't agree and I should get 50/50. She said me attorny is known for how she is handling the case and the judge is very slow. So I can't pin my hopes on that, but it helped me to cool off some, but NY in pro mom, she has an affair, and it does not matter because of no fault, I read a judge will not even consider that, so they award her full custody, when iv asked for 50/50 and have been refused , but I'm ordered to pay child support, to me that's a crime scene not justice. Sorry for rant.

She has those pink carhatt bibs and jacket, just not
cold enough for them yet.

Jay, I don't know you but I have been where you are at.
I will not go into all may details and how I learned what I will try to pass on to you, but I feel it is a truth worth passing on.

No matter how the court case comes out ( and I fully agree with you that at times, it seems the courts - any state - are pro mom) you have to do your BEST not to talk about your daughters mother in a bad way. It will be hard at times, you will think if I bite my tongue any more I will bite it into. When your daughter is with you, allow her to talk about things she and her mother do or have done. Without fear of you having a negative response. She needs to feel free to love her mother and her father. Which she will do no matter what you or her mother say. No child should have to feel like "when I am at my moms I have to act as if I don't love my dad" or the other way around. We as adults have to remember and let our children know they had not part or fault of the divorce.
As time goes on and your daughter gets older, she will know the truth as much as she should. She will resent the parent that did not allow her to love the other, just as it was meant to be.

So no matter how much time you get her, make the best of it just like you did today. By the way she is beautiful, make sure you tell her that everyday for the rest of her life!

Keep LOOkin Up!
Michael
Joshua 1:8

Thank you for your wisdom, I do not speak bad of
the mother to my daughter, that's one thing I have
been able to do, but when my daughter is an adult, I
think I am going to tell her what her mother did. I
mean my wife is 38 her boyfriend is 56? Can that
really last?