Vacation Bible School June 12-16

Wow, how amazing VBS was this year. I had most of the week off except Friday so I got to participate 4 out of the 5 days. There were some major battles. Julie, my ex's wife (whore), decided that she was going to take Samantha out swimming rather than to VBS one day. Samantha came in and was very upset that Julie was not going to let her go to VBS. So I wrote Jamie said what is going on. I told him what Samantha said and reminded him that he committed her to this activity. He told me that he scheduled Samantha to go swimming. So, I said why schedule her somewhere else when especially when it is too cold to go swimming it was in the low 60's and chilly that week. He was very mad at me for standing up to him about trying to make Samantha choose. His big thing is that he is going to allow Samantha to do what she enjoys and what she wants. So I then asked him if that was really the case then why does he refuse to let her go to Sunday School on the days he has her if he is really interested in making Samantha happy. Needless to say Samantha made it all 5 days to VBS so the Lord had a large victory.

Samantha on Wednesday brought me a special picture book of events and real pictures of Samantha in her 1st grade year. They were photos of her and I as well. It was AWESOME. She had not been allowed to give it to me until then because Julie and Jamie were mad that the teacher had made one for me, specifically.

Also, same week. Samantha had her Soccer Banquet. I let Jamie know I would take Samantha and that her Trophy would be coming home with me since Samantha should have things she is proud of in both homes and how he had all the certificates from School that this will be coming to my house. It was a nice evening and the trophy also came home.

WHAT A LONG "stressful" WEEK. But thank you God for being with us every single step of the way. Could not have dealt with it without you.