Well, that's the way it goes

First I just want to say thanks to everyone again for signing this beautiful guestbook . Yesterday, I woke up late and then spent some time working on a paper for my class. I exercised and felt really good and off I went to go pick up the boys.

They weren't there, nobody came out. I waited for 15 minutes and then went to a pay phone to call my ex wife's lawyer. After another 1/2 hour of waiting on the phone and calling back, I finally spoke to someone that said they would call her and find out what was going on. I called back and was told that she didn't know that I was picking them up at 3pm. Our divorce agreement says..

Parent's Birthdays. Each parent may have the children on his or her birthday from the time the children's school recesses for the day (or 3:00pm if there is no school on that day) until 9:00pm.

I never got a call back from her lawyer. I have left him messages for the past 3 weeks. I sent him three faxes in the past three weeks, one on every thursday that he hasn't returned my calls. On July 16th I wrote "I just wanted to ask you to remind you client that my birthday is on July 30th and I will be picking the boys up as per our original divorce agreement." Then I called on Monday, and left a message asking that he call back. He never did, he never calls me back.

I pointed this out to the lawyers assistant and she said she would try to reach her again. I told her that I would go over to the house again. This time her mother (the boys grandmother) was outside watering plants. I told her that I was there to pick up the boys and she said, "they are with their mother" Hmmm, the lawyers assistant told me that she called her at work and well.. you get the picture.. after an hour and a half, I gave up

I picked up my girlfriend and we had pizza together.