It's been a while since I've been on. Things went well last week with counseling. We discussed the influences of BM and MIL and how it affects our life and home. The counselor talked with both of us and my DH said some pretty emotional and deep thoughts regarding his mother and how and why she affects him the way she does. That he knows she does but the guilt of feeling responsible for her keeps pulling on him but he is seeing just how destructive she is. We discussed together how to handle when she starts and what he can do about it. Telling her things like "Mom, you are the grandparent.

This is the last week the kids will be with their other parents. Starting Sunday it is back to full time with all the kids, and schoolwork, and extra curriculars, and all the lovely things that go along with back to school

As the sun came up on this new day, I was still grinning from the events of last night (see previous blog) and as I'm sitting here drinking my coffee, I'm still grinning...almost smirking actually.

I'm starting to think maybe I really AM the evil SM. I'm normally a very nice, friendly, outgoing person. What you see is what you get. I am fair to everyone, although once you fuck me over, you most likely won't get another chance with me and you'll be well aware of how I feel about you.

DH and I had an amazing weekend! We started out with a quick overnight to a quaint little town, spent the night and then took the back roads home and saw some cute little places along the way. We had an amazing time together, just the two of us. It was perfect even though some things were not perfect (issue with hotel room, etc) it didn't bother us at all...we just enjoyed every minute of our time together. MIL, kids, BM never entered my mind once. As soon as we got about 30 miles out of our town I felt relieved and thought...we are AWAY from it all...YAY!!