Still alive...

It hasn't been the most pleasant of times lately. I'm mentally exhausted and ready to throw in the towel. I still just don't get it...why a mother would teach/tell her kids to lie...hate...and manipulate. The mom isn't getting what she wants...perhaps she is un-fullfilled in her personal life that she has to have some sort of drama going on so she goes through her kids. pretty classy huh?

We have practically lived at the court house lately.. seriously.. we should both have jobs there by now as much as we have had to go there. I should have nerves of steel by now...lol

With-in the past year and a half I have counted up just how many times we have had to go to the court house... and the answer is..18. Child custody, and two restraining orders later...things are worse than before. The child custody is over now.. and we were granted the restraining orders.. but one order was violated with-in the first hour of being served...so now its back and forth again to the court house. Just how much more is it going to take for the proper people to actually do something to put a stop to these people?

Tim and I have really been through the wringer...and things just continue to get worse. Not only has our lives been threatened by this couple.. but they are working really hard at using the kids against us. The kids are now 14 and 17, and to have to call the sheriff on them for being unruly has really put things on the fire. We can't just sit back and allow two teens to walk all over us. Kids know when mom and dad can't get along that that is the best time to play both sides of the field.

When we went to court yesterday... not only do you have to sit there and witness every Joe's mistakes..but you sit there and listen to a bunch of drama...i dont need drama.. i need peace already. And of course it was continued again...we have to go back in June. The prosecutor pulled us aside yesterday and told us that they are going to "combine" all of the charges against the step dad and "try" it all at one time. He has violated the protection order which is a misdemeanor 1... then he has criminal damaging and disorderly conduct ( he threw an object at my car while I was driving) which both are some number of misdemeanors. That's 3 misdemeanors! And.. he has yet another misd. from a different case. What is it that has to happen before someone actually says.. " hey, this guy needs to be someplace else other than walking the streets of Columbus"?

This guy has a record as long as a football field.. he's been in and out of the prison system since before 1992. Breaking and entering, breaking and entering with intent, passing bad checks, theft, the list is endless.

The mind games that these people play on these kids is disgusting. And what kind of parent tells there kid to lie to the other parent? I could go on and on about what these people are doing. Its just so sad and disturbing that they are lieing to the kids and turning them against the only people in there lives that actually do the right thing no matter what.

People keep telling us to keep our heads up, and that everything is in Gods plan. I sure would like to see his blueprints!