Where O Where have my parenting rights gone?

My son is with his dad this week, because it is his parenting time so to speak. Well I get a call (actually a text) from my son today telling me he was in Kentucky and was on his way to Tennessee. I was thinking to myself that's nice, he is in KY and I had no clue that he had even left the state of Ohio; and that the adult of the house (meaning his father) could of called just to be nice and say Hey, I am taking our son out of state for the next couple of days. I never take my son out of town/state without calling his dad and letting him know. I know it is his parenting week and all but I have enough respect for him being the father of my son to do that for him even on my parenting weeks. I don't know why I bother. It is just hard for me to tolerate the fact that I have nothing to do with my son or know what he is doing or where he is going for two weeks out of the month. My son's dad just let's him do way to much, my son is only 11 years old and he does things that my 16 and 17 year old nephews have not even done. So if any of you out there are reading this and you are going through the same type of split, please let the other parent know where the child is and where they are going at all times. It is called being able to have a peace of mind.

It was my holiday

It is supposed to be my holiday (July 4) but my son has been with his dad all week because it has been his week. I was debating on whether or not to even utilize the fact that it was my holiday. I just did not want any trouble, but I thought no, you know what... It is Independence day I am tired of him making me feel inferior to him. I made the call, to let him know that I would be picking up Chase and spending the day with him. He responds exactly how I envisioned he would. He starts telling me that it was not my holiday, and that he did not care if it was or not that I was not getting my son and that I would have to bring the cops to his house; he knows the cops of course are going to do nothing but say it is a civil dispute and I need to call my attorney....Hello! I don't have an attorney in my back pocket to keep on the payroll. I got frustrated and after crying for 15 minutes and getting mad and yelling at my husband because he just happened to be there. I got ready and drove on over to his house and called my son and told him to come on outside, it took a good 20 minutes to get him out side but I was not going to be leaving without him. We did get to watch the fireworks together last night so it was very nice.

My son was very upset from all of the arguing and when he got in my car, he had looked as if he had been crying for a while. I told him that I am so sorry that he has to go through all of this and that If I could make it better for him I would. He says the same thing that he always says that he just wishes we could get along. I wish the same thing, and have always wanted that for him.

Goodbye Baseball Hello Football Season

For all of us busy moms that move from one sport right into the next, Kudos to us! We concluded our baseball season with winning our final game against a local rival Yeah! I had my son this past week and boy were we busy. My youngest son turned 5, so we had his big 5 y-o birthday bash at Chuck E Cheese and we had our last baseball game and then a end of the season cookout/pool party for the team. So needless to say I am exhausted....

Some of the boys from the team are moving onto fall ball and some are moving onto football. My son wanted to do both, I said HECK no! make a choice; so he chose football. We are moving onto touchdowns vs home runs! Summer has not even got started, it just seems to early to be thinking football but hey whatta you gonna do....