Gremlins and other annoying things.
I FOUND MY WALLET!!! The gremlins that took it returned it back to the minivan that Sydney and I searched at least four times prior and suddenly it was just sitting right there. I give a sigh of relief as my Jimmy John punch card was almost full and now I can get my free sub.
And speaking little annoying creatures from days of old ... my father has returned from who knows where. After not seeing or talking to him for around twenty years, he suddenly wants to start some sort of communication again. He heard through the grape vine that my daughter had some health problems (Emily had four surgeries in 2007 and the final one last year). Now he wants to send me money "to help out".
I am very upset about this. Shit, he owes my mother thousands of dollars in back child support when I was a child, but he never cared enough about me or my mother back then to even show up on a regular basis. I decided long ago that my father does not owe me anything. I do not want him to come back in my life under some fault sense of responsibility. I do not want him to disappoint my children like he disappointed me with all his lies and empty promises. I fight everyday of my life not to be the abusive monster that he was. I know that every time I loss my temper with my children, my mother and my wife are watching me to see if my father's anger is coming through. Now he wants to pay me back (and not my mother whom he actually owes)???