Got to get this off my chest....

Am I out of line to think that my ex's girlfriend is going too far?  Here is the series of events that have been occuring lately...
It all started with the girlfriend deciding that it would be a good idea to be the room mom for my son's 1st grade classroom....Why would that be ok? She does not have any kids....my ex claims that he suggested it because the teacher was having trouble finding one....
Next...at my son's football game, he was not feeling well...so he came and sat on my lap during the game to rest.  The girlfriend came over to "mother" him...give him a cold towel...ask him if he was ok...ask him if he wanted to go and lay down in her car...
Now...I find a note written to him in the bag of stuff that my ex dropped off to me...

Am I wrong to think that she is being kind of creepy...and taking this whole thing too far?  It is not her son...why would she think that I would be ok with what she is doing...?

Here is my take on it...
I think she is doing it on purpose...I feel like she is bullying me....deliberately doing things to make me upset...I think she is trying to make me look like the bad person...the crazy person...I think she is hoping that I fly off the handle in public and act crazy....but I'm not going to do that.
I am not going to sit back and allow her to push her way in...she did that to my marriage...fine...she can have him...but now she is trying to do the same thing with my son...not her son...MY SON!!!

Ok...now to get some sleep....this is not going to go away any time soon...I know that...I have to find a way to deal with it...but I expect that  I will be speaking with dear girlfriend before too long....

Jenn

Seriously...who does she think she is?

At my son's football game yesterday, my son started to have a headache...he has been diagnosed with migraines...and so Igave him some ibuprofin, and had him take his helmet and pads off and sit on my lap and try to rest so the headache would go away. 
As my son was sitting in my lap, she came over and started to "mother" him...giving me a cold wet towel to put behind his neck (he already had one given by me)...asking him if he wanted to go lay down in her car...she would turn the AC on so he could cool off....ALL WHILE HE IS SITTING IN HIS MOTHER'S LAP!!!
Who does she think she is? I know what she is trying to do...and I know the reaction she wants to get from me....but I did some deep breathing and held my tongue...
I can't stop her from doing this while Julian is at her house, but I don't appreciate her trying to be the mother of MY son while he is sitting in my lap....seriously!!!!

Ok...that's that.

Lazy weekend...mowed the lawn yesterday...started cleaning my son't room today...managed to get a huge chunk of it done...bed moved...toys sorted and stored...still have to install the lights and the shower in his bathroom...
I also need to get the TV moved from upstairs to downstairs...I can't handle sitting in my room watching TV all the time...I need to get a TV in the living room, but can't afford to replace the TV that was tragically destroyed when my son decided to pull all the drawers out on my dresser and the dresser tipped over...TV, Blu-Ray, and Directv box all fell about 3 1/2 feet to the floor....tragic....
Christmas is coming...I'll have to decide what is more important...new TV or iPad...I know which one I should purchase...but for once I would like to buy what I want...and not just what I need.

Watching the Lions right now...my brother is sitting in the MGM suite at the game....nice.

It's finally Friday...

It's been a long week.  I was pretty close last week to calling an old "friend"...but stopped myself.  Thought about it this weekend as well....
But I'm not going to....I have to hold myself to a higher standard...and hold on to the expectation that whomever is in my life will treat me with the respect that I deserve...in all facets of my life...
Anyway....I'm now sitting here watching CSI...and working on school work....another fun Friday night.

Jenn

What do you think?

Ok...so this is my first post...not sure how blogging about the things I go through will do any good, but its worth a shot.  There are a lot of things that I deal with as a single mom...work...money.....love.....the ex...the ex's girlfriend...many things that I deal with that affect who I am...I'm sure I will get to all of it in due time. 
Today...I want to give you some back ground information.  I am 42 years old...don't feel that old, but that's the age the calendar tells me I am...so be it.  I grew up in a small town in Michigan...got my college degree...and moved to Texas in the late 90s.  I'll skip over the marriage/divorce years for now...it will certainly come up soon.
I like to share the things I go through with people...I like to talk to people and get their view of things...maybe I should have gone in to counseling or some other line of work where I get to talk with people on a daily basis...might actually pay better than teaching...but I love the interaction that I have with students...and I love teaching them to love to learn...maybe it was the experience I had in high school with a few excellent teachers that led me to this career...maybe it was because I was fairly lazy when it came to school...if I could get a B or a C without really trying, I was good with that.  Now my lot in life is to change that type of attitude in the students who come through my doors on a daily basis.
Anyway...back to basics.  I don't mind sharing my situations and experiences with people...there are a few things I keep to myself...but most is wide open.  I figure maybe if I talk about it...others might see that they are not alone...and it will make us all stronger to have someone out there who knows what we are going through.
Ok...my son is using his homemade nun-chucks (is that the correct spelling) on me...a card board roll cut in half held together by a yellow ribbon taped to the inside of the tubes.
I'll check back later...which I have come to learn from other people might mean later today like in a few hours...or later tomorrow...or even later this week in a few days.  Amazing how later means different things to different people.  In this case, later means tomorrow or this weekend.  It's another weekend without my son at home...I hate these weekends...I really should use these times to get stuff done around the house....or go out and have fun....but that is another story also.

Jenn