When it comes to your children, how can you think in terms of win and lose? The only thing that matters is their current and future wellbeing, physical & emotional. I would be held in contempt, even go to jail…more…any day for standing up for my kids when they have been innocent.
So it is that I do not consider myself to have “lost” by being held in contempt for choosing to keep my kids with me rather than return them to their dad during the COVID pandemic.
For three months we stayed healthy together, learned together & worked together. I have the Best team. Last Tuesday the judge decided I had done wrong because, in his words but paraphrased, parents can’t go around making decisions in the best interest of their children. The children were ordered back to their dad’s and we are returning to our regular week to week schedule.
I guess it does not go over well to begin your opening statement with the fact that, with all due respect and no apologies, you did what your mother’s heart felt was best to protect your children during the unknown impending COVID pandemic.
I don’t consider it defeat. I consider it success. It doesn’t matter that their dad didn’t pay any more than the usual $242 per month child support or kept the economic impact payment for three of the kids. It doesn’t even really matter that he has traveled to Paris, London, Grand Cayman & Cuba and had planned to travel to Hawaii with his girlfriend but for COVID. All on his reported $1800 per month income. This once great top-of-his game tax planner.
It only matters that the kids stayed safe & healthy and that we had that time together.
And a daily dose of cuteness makes it better.
And where did dad & girlfriend head as soon as the “bad mama Order” issued? A Tampa water park. COVID be damned!
Notes From Real Life 