I could not sleep again last night, so I ended up getting up and watching a movie in the living room. While I was watching it, I had time to think about a few things.
First, when it comes to CL and the car, I have removed all expectations that I am ever going to see the rest of the money I paid for it returned. I am not going to bring it up to AJ anymore either. I already told her that I will no longer involve her in those conversations. She tends to focus on his best interests rather than what is best for the household, so at this point it is what it is.
I am still paying for his phone though. I have decided that the next time he misses a payment, I am not going to say anything to anyone. I will simply turn the phone off. He has the money now where he can get his own phone, and since he is not my child, AJ or his dad can pay for it if they want him to have one.
I am also going to do the same thing with AE. If AJ wants him to have a phone, then she can pay for it. I am also planning to cancel all of the subscriptions I pay for since AE is really the only one who uses them. I am no longer willing to cover those either.
When AJ invites CL over to the house, I will just make sure that I am not there. I do not want any part of being around him.
Later that morning we tried to go to church, but AE was being extremely difficult. By the time we were ready to leave, we were already going to be very late. I asked AJ in the car if we should just go get breakfast instead since we were running so far behind. She said she was not hungry and that there were some things she needed to take care of, so we skipped church and handled those errands instead.
While we were out, and knowing she had been stressed about the situation with CJ and the car, I took her to get her nails done in hopes that it would improve her mood. It actually worked and helped make the rest of the day better.
Before heading home she wanted to stop by a campground that is not far from the house. She ended up talking me into booking a site there for Easter weekend. That means we will now be camping two weekends in a row. I am not sure I am really up for that, because spending that much time camping with AE can be pretty exhausting.
After we got home we had a couple of hours before a fish fry we were planning to attend. AJ and I tried to relax, but AE would not let us. He was playing Xbox in his room and kept coming out making all kinds of strange noises. We even told him we were trying to take a nap, and he said he would not allow it. So that ended any chance of getting some rest.
At the fish fry things were actually fine. AE did not really get on anyone’s nerves while we were there.
On the way home, though, he mentioned that he had a pain in his abdomen and that sometimes it hurt when he went to the bathroom. He had mentioned something like that once before but then never said anything else about it, so AJ had assumed it was nothing.
This time he brought it up again and said he did not want to wait to get an appointment. AJ called her mom, who is a nurse, and she told her to go ahead and take him to the emergency room.
So we ended up at the ER on the way home. We spent about two hours there before they determined that he has a urinary tract infection. Thankfully it was nothing serious.
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