Monday, April 14, 2008

How can a weight be lifted off your shoulders and at the same time a huge cloud looms overhead?

I'll tell you how.

Rick goes to jail = weight lifted.

Rick goes to jail = huge mfing cloud.

See, Rick used to watch the baby while I was at work and did scout stuff. Now Rick is in jail and I don't have a real plan for a backup babysitter.

I am glad I don't have to hear his negative attitude for a long while. He brought this on himself. I am thankful that my kids are smarter than I am. Don't worry it was really an uneventful thing that happened. No hitting or slamming doors.
Simply this...I was cooking dinner and the boys were just home from a weekend camping trip. They were on the computer along with Jarrett's friend Tyler. I could hear some profanity from whatever they were watching and I asked Ricky to either turn it off or use the headphones cause I didn't want the baby to hear it. A few seconds later, Rick comes out of a bedroom and starts yelling at Ricky, telling him he has 2 seconds to turn it off or he will pull the plug. Ricky tells him to back off and then Rick pulls the plug and goes back to whatever he was doing.
Next, I hear Rick asking me who Ricky is on the phone with outside. I tell him we don't have a phone and I peak outside knowing full well who he is talking to. Rick begs me to go out there and stop him. Then he kind of runs around the house trying to figure out what to do and where to go. Finally I tell him that he needs to calm down and figure out what to tell the cops when they get here. He takes off out the door and attempts to hide in the ditch. But he must have seen the police car by then and came out to talk to them. They run his name and find out that there is a no contact order. They take a statement from me and took him to jail.
Ricky says he's happy about what he did. And later that night he came and sat by me and asked me how I felt. I said fine and he said "No, what I mean is, don't you feel more relaxed now that Dads not here."
"Yes!" I do feel so much at ease, even though there will be hard times and things will be more difficult, I still feel like this should have been done a long time ago. I mean he has only been watching Chase since about January. I seems sooo much longer than that. A lifetime.
I can't seem to think a solid thought, sorry. I know I am rambling...

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