Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Do I need to read the damn book again?

So at this point I'm wondering if I need to go back and read the book again and figure out new ways of making conversation with this chick or what?? We had Q last night again and it was great... We did all of our normal Tuesday crazy night stuff. On our week night with Q its totally crazy its usually like this... We drive 30min to magna pick her up at 3:45 drive 30min home get all the girls started on home work start dinner, eat dinner together ( we don't ever miss this one!) work with Q on spelling and reading play a quick game with all the girls all before 6:30, at 6:30 we have to leave and drive 30min to Q's tutor drop her off for a hr hang out somewhere close to tutors pick her up at 8 drive 30 min to magna to have her at home at 8:30 on the dot and then drive 30min back home and put the other 3 girls to bed... Ahh CRAZY TUESDAY!!

Now what i would like to first work on with Rebel is trying to get her to help with this insanity, she NEVER has to pick up Q. In our court papers it says that Zak will pick up Q and drop her off and this is something I would like to kick my own ass 2 days a week for not questioning our lawyer for 3 years ago! We've tried a few times to have Rebel come get her and unless its some special day that she wants Q early she tells us no... Now the state has changed the rules and new cases get to have each parent pick up when there time starts up again. I am trying to think of a way to put this to her like hey we really would like to spend more of the little time we get with Q with her and not driving around. Tuesdays we get Q from 3:45 to 8:30 so 4hrs and 45min. We spend 2hrs just driving to pick up and drop off. We also use a hr of our time for her to get help from the tutor to try and bring her up to grade level in school. So is it too much to ask for her mother to pick her up when our time is over? Really it might sound like a small amount of time to be bothered by but think of it this way every week we spend 2hrs just picking up and dropping off and every other week we spend 4hrs picking up and dropping off so that's 12hrs a month we spend driving just to pick up and drop off I would much rather be using the extra 6hrs that we would have with Q if her mother would pick her up doing something fun not just sitting in the car! On Tuesdays we spend 2 and a half hrs in the car driving and 1hr waiting for her at the tutors so we really only have 2 1/2 hrs to actually spend with her and in that 2 1/2 hrs we have to cook and eat dinner do homework, spelling, and read for 30min.

Well I guess I'll see if i can think of any ways to make her understand how we feel about it.

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