Wow, Not The News I Wanted

So, Dan has informed me that Kelly wants to separate. She and the girls will be living in their house in Alabama and Dan will be rooming with George at Dad's house for the year he's in Leavenworth for the Fort L course. Heartbreaking all around. I don't get the girls for the year (though they will be coming for a few weeks with Dan), Dan doesn't get the girls and the girls don't get their Dad. I don't know if Dan and Kelly will patch things up - I don't think they are actually fighting (which would indicate there were still feelings there); I think they've given up on the relationship. It's all so very sad. Very sad.

Dan has to room with George and Breezy because he can't afford the mortgage on the house and rent. I was over there this week-end to check on the cats while George was out of town and the place is beyond disaster. There's mold growing in the basement! Dan is going to have a very difficult time there. And Breezy will not like having to 'share her house' with a Hunt brother. Very bad.

And George can't possibly allow a baby in to that house - not in the shape it's in. The little girl (it's a girl!) will be constantly sick fighting all the bacteria and mold and God-knows-what. If the SRS saw the condition of the house, they would not allow George and Breezy to take the baby there. Very bad.

AND (yes, there's more!) Tom told me a few days ago that his family is moving - to Lansing - just down the road! Since Tom and Kathey are firm believers that it takes a village and not a parent to raise a child, I will live in fear that they will continuously send their kids over (and probably right around a meal time!) This is MY neighborhood; why do they have to crash it? Not happy with it.

Haven't talked to Susanna - don't intend to. She came out of her house to admire the car last week-end when I dropped the girls off and she acted like everything was fine. I'm sure Gregg (who checked it out from the porch) had some derogatory things to say behind closed doors. That I'm spoiled or demanding or something. Not that I care.

Charlie is not doing anything about the trust and we are all tired of trying. He is almost refusing to spend any time with anyone - the only person who's seen him at all this year has been George who had been working with Charlie's band on an album.

So that leaves John. The only Hunt sibling that I don't worry about.

Nuts.