Whoa

I confess, I have worked on this blog post for over a month . . .

It was originally titled, “My Four Week Plan”.

I started the post right before my son left for his four week extended parenting time with the ex.  This was not an easy transition in the new order of parenting time granted to my ex over our “epic court episodes”.  The longest I had been away from my son prior to our litigation was four days.  This past Christmas, my son was gone for almost a week and a half, but I survived.

Needless to say, four weeks was something I dreaded and couldn’t fathom, and for those following this blog, I addressed this issue last year, but my ex’s “stupidity” put a stall in the start of the four weeks of extended summer parenting time last year. 

Even before my May hearing this year, I knew, despite my valid arguments that my son would leave for a month this summer. 

This extended parenting time came to an end this past Friday.  My son is back and I am so happy

But I (clearly) became a victim of my own plan to be AS BUSY AS POSSIBLE over these past several weeks so I wouldn’t miss my son’s absence.

My plan, which I had been working on for over a year worked better than I thought, although not in the way I originally planned (go figure, as that’s usually how my plans go).

My anticipated “Four week plan” was:

• Get more than 4 hours of sleep a night (a.k.a. get on a better schedule in general)
• Get on an exercise routine
• Clean out my closets and storage and donate the items I no longer use/wear
• Get on a better study schedule (using my summer session class as practice)
• Watch more movies on my Netflix queue
• Finish knitting and crochet projects I started prior to law school

I am sorry to admit, I accomplished NOTHING on my four week plan . . .

Instead I:

• Wrote lots of motions for my upcoming trial
• Spent a lot of extra hours at work
• Got a subscription to HBO
• Read books that weren’t law school class assigned
• Planned and implemented an epic bachelor/engagement party for my BFF and his partner
• Joined Pinterest and Google+

I do not regret doing any of the items in lieu of my four week plan . . .

I do regret:

• Not getting on an exercise plan
• Not getting on a better sleep schedule
• Not developing a better study schedule (but I’m entering my last year of law school next month, so I don’t think I will make momentous changes by switching my study schedule at this point)

While a lot of “ick” occurred during my son’s time with his dad and the Court (which I will address in future posts), I realized that I can survive despite all of my fears a year ago and more importantly, my son can survive . . .

Thank you for all of your support and kind words . . .

I promise to post more often, even if it’s just random stuff

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