This weekend was fun! Me and the kids decided to help my best friend move the rest of her stuff out of her storage unit/well, actually, it was just us adults..lol. The kids rode along in the truck while we headed up to souix city. Our friend, Daniel, who will be leaving for Iraq in about three months also helped with the move. There were 4 kids this weekend; my two and my bf 2 kids. She has a boy and girl too. So the boys, rode with Danial in the truck and the girls rode with us in the car. It took us like almost 2 hours to get to Souix City but we had snacks and drinks for the kids along the way and some of them took small naps.
Later on, after we got relaxed and such and everything was put away and taken out of the truck...the kids got to run thru the sprinklers and have a water balloon fight. What a mess that was! Then it was lunch time. We had another nice cook out. As it was 4th of July weekend, and in prob another two weeks the kids will not get to see eachother...we had to give the kids a fun time while they were here. The food was good, the kids were good/well, most of the time...the weather was just right but the day was not over yet. By mid afternoon, we took the kids to a really neat park that was probably one of the best ones I have seen so far. We stayed there for almost an hour before we were all very tired. Then later that evening, we had some sparklers for the kids and they went at it for almost an hour, or so it seemed. We had some left over sparklers from last year and then we got some others for the kids at decent prices. On top of that, the kids were also having fun with the lightning bugs. Then it was time for bed time. So, in all, this weekend was really fun and the kids had a blast spending time with eachother again....as it has been a long time since then.
The bad news though is that Friday, late morning, I was talking to a social worker about a CPS call made towards me. She told me it was not such a bad thing about this report, only because it was one of those calls that made you think that the person calling in was just trying to cause trouble or up to no good at all. Well, the CPS agent was explaining to me about the things on the report and they were things that were completely false; as the agent could clearly see looking at the living conditions of me and the kids in my apartment. The sad thing is that the only people that could relate to anything on this report was my ex husband and his wife; who have been trying to take the kids from me for sometime now. I guess they feel that if they file this CPS report against me and if found that I was neglecting and abusing the kids, the kids would be either in the state's hands in foster care or their care for good. So I explained everything to the agent and that this may be an issue that my ex is trying to pull in order to get custody of the kids and she said that this can not be used in court as it was just a false report. I do have proof of an email my ex sent me, that he said he has dealt with the CPS in my state but he complained about how the state is really slow about getting down to business....so this is the only proof I have and also from a blog his wife wrote once....to show that he actually filed this fake report. As the caller was "unknown" who made this report against me.
Anyhow, all is well and things will start looking up from here. Gotta get to work, so hope all is fine with all of my friends and such.
