Update!

OK - so I have been really slack and not updated the blog for a few days! Apologies to the two people who have moaned at me for it. You are probably the only two people other than me who read it!

so - in a nutshell.... the weekend consisted of:

Friday:

• Argument with Nick in the morning about taking kids to Keith's to watch Ice Hockey. Nick says Gemima is NEVER to go to Keith's or to see ice hockey. (Pah! Yeah! We'll see about that matey!) Nick moaned about not spending enough time with Aaron and bitched that I was taking him away again.
• Text from Nick in the evening to say he has taken kids to Pizza Hut. Got home just before 6pm - 2 hours after I was supposed to have left. Obvious ploy to delay me. Even Aaron could see that and said as much.
  
• Further disagreement with Nick who failed to see why I was leaving Friday night when Ice Hockey is Sunday - despite having been told Aaron is going to cinema with Sam on Sat afternoon and I don't want to risk being late.
• Nick demanded to have Keith's address because he "has a right to know where his son is being taken". Also stated that if I don't tell him and don't allow him to be a proper father to Aaron then he will get legal advice on having his name taken off of Aaron's adoption certificate so that he is no longer responsible for him!! Fortunately, Aaron had left the room at that point and did not hear.
• Drove to Keith's - Aaron went straight up to play on X-Box with Sam. Sophie was home for the weekend but went up to her room after dinner and I was finally able to relax for the first time in a week and fell asleep on Keith's sofa. What a considerate friend I am!! LMAO! Thank you Keith!
• Missed a call and a text from Nick demanding to say goodnight to Aaron. Finally allowed Aaron to call Nick at just after 11:30pm when I checked my phone.

Saturday:

• Boys dropped off at Sam's friend's house. Aaron got to go to cinema with Sam and his friends and got to join in the sleepover as well. He had a brilliant time and I think it was the highlight of the weekend for him.
• Went to Chelmsford with Keith and Sophie and got new phone - now have fab and gorgeous O2 XDA Orbit which is lovely and has free SatNav.
• Sophie was ill Saturday evening just as we were all relaxing on sofa. Turns out she should have had painkillers over her weekend leave but they had not given any to her. Resulted in her being in much pain and throwing up and a speedy drive back to the hospital where she ended up staying.

Sunday:

• Collected boys in the morning. Texted them to let them know we were coming and that Sophie was back in hospital. In typical boy fashion, neither was ready to go when Keith and I arrived. In fact by all accounts Sam was still in his pants playing games!
• Trundled off to hospital to visit Sophie for a few hours. Left Aaron and Sam to fend for themselves in the house.
• Went to watch Ice Hockey. MUCH better game than last week. We lost - but it was close and not as frustrating to watch.
• Long drive home. Got a bit tearful and emotional at the thought of having to come back and face the barrage of crap Nick has subjected me to over the past week. Fortunately Keith was around to give me a pep talk, a hug and a kick up the bum so I did go in the end!
• Aaron announced in the car that he did not want to go back home. Was difficult for me to have to persuade him that we needed to, especially when I was so reluctant to go myself.
• Message from Jade to say she is staying at my Mum's because she did not want to be at the house while Nick was there.
• Got home to find that Nick was asleep in my bed in the loft. Could not be bothered with the argument and did not want to speak to him or see him so I slept in Jade's bed.

Monday:

• Only a little dig at me in the morning. Commented on the fact that I had not got Aaron to call him on Saturday. Did not want to say that Aaron had not been there, instead suggested that as he has Aaron's mobile number, he could call that directly instead of expecting Aaron to phone him from my phone.
• Nick mentioned, as I was leaving to do the school run, that Bob, my brother and sister's Dad, had called him on the weekend and that he had seemed to know an awful lot about the divorce. Nick didn't elaborate on what Bob said to him but Nick has stopped being quite so agressive towards me. Co-incidence? Perhaps not....!!