Happy Mother's Day

I did just what I wanted to do yesterday! Went to early service at church w/S and baby, then we ate at IHOP. I got apple cinnamon pancakes, oh ho ho... Then S took her to work with him so I could go on patrol, but there is where the day went totally downhill. I had a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day on patrol. I don't want to say too much about it except that it was almost a waste of my gas to even go out there. It was LAME. I'll try again next Sunday though. I even bit the bullet and emailed my Sgt. today to ask if I could go out with Mudflap, since I had such a miserable time yesterday.

This was a pretty awesome weekend all around with the baby, which is great b/c she was so bad the last weekend we had her and I was just DONE with her (which is one of the reasons I shipped her off to work with S). Yet this weekend she was sweet and well-behaved and we discussed good manners and she was absolutely excellent in remembering to say "Please" and "thank you" and "Yes ma'am" and "Yes sir." It was awesome! On Friday night we played on the keyboard together and I attempted to teach her a simple song or 2. She went to bed when we told her and did what we said to do, which was such a difference from last time! Sat. she and I did end up going to the library for storytime, and we made it to the Art Car Parade in plenty of time. Unfortunately, she was bad there for awhile b/c I refused to accept her lies and manipulations. "I'm tired, can we go home?" before the parade even started! Yet, seconds before she had been running after all kinds of dogs to pet them! Also, "I want ice cream" when she had barely eaten her chocolate-sprinkle doughnut and "I don't like chocolate" when she was the one that picked the doughnut out!!! I refused to put up with her bullshit and so she sat and sulked for about 20 min. and I was fine ignoring her! Later though I asked her if she was ready to be good and she agreed and we kissed and made up and enjoyed the rest of the parade. I even got her an ice cream before we left (b/c I wanted one too) which she promptly got all over herself and her red wagon.

So after the parade was over, which was, as always, a wonderful experience and I ran into many friends of mine as well as got shout-out's from an art car or 2, I had to decide what to do next. Go to the Conjunto festival and hear wonderful music but remain in the heat and struggle with finding parking? Or go home, take a nap, then go swimming? The latter won out except without the nap! Plus it was a great excuse to wash all the ice cream off, heh heh. Afterwards we took a shower together, got all nice and clean and put on dresses to look pretty for S, and when he got home I had dinner ready so we could eat and they could go see Spiderman 3 at the movies and I could enjoy some time alone on the couch with my book! (S texted me from the movie saying that the baby was being like me and trying to read a library book in the movie! C'mon, I've never gone that far--still, I was tickled to hear it!!!)

As a remainder of what a lame time I had yesterday on patrol, I seem to have come down with a mild case of food poisoning or something from the Mexican restaurant we ate at. I almost didn't make it into work today. Plus last night when I got home my lower back hurt more than usual and I'm not sure why. My belt with all my heavy gear does start to weigh down on my lower back after awhile, but last night really, really hurt! Probably just b/c I wasn't having a good time.

Court case note: We're pretty much ready for Thursday. I finally got in touch with our lawyer today and she is ticking me off a little b/c she didn't give our witnesses enough notice like she had told me she would, and now we're scrambling to make sure they can even come. I can't care anymore, I refuse to get physically ill from worrying about this. She did give me one interesting tidbit today, that the whore's attorney has said he wants us to have more visitation. He still doesn't think custody should be changed, but he wants us to have more visitation. Oh, but I thought the whore was accusing us of everything under the sun short of murder and beastiality! (I'm sure that's next though.) I thought she was testifying that S and I were burglars and car thieves! How to explain the contradiction then? Ummm, uh, let's see, how about, the whore is an evil, incorrigible fabricator? I can't wait for Thursday. I can't wait to see her face when custody is reversed--thanks to HER evil actions.