Two writes don't make a wrong "if it bleeds it leads"

Things have changed a lot around here.  I’ve become a single parent again.relapsing.html Before, I was working as much as I could to try and dig us out of a financial hole. Gavin’s Mom didn’t work, her responsibility was Gavin. Get him off the bus, do his spelling and love him. We’ve been fixing a lot of things. My son is a polite and courteous boy. Has an overflow of energy. He’s all boy.

  He’s been doing poor at spelling. Two right out of twelve. Mom had been having him write his words. I asked him “how does Mr. Hard test you”?  Gavin says he says them to him. So now we say spelling words and Gavin gets two wrong now. I asked him what it’s like to know the answers and I can see the excitement in his face Yeah he said and I see him encouraged to work with me on them. At dinner we use to have him eat in his room. He won’t eat most of what we would eat so it just played out he would eat first in his room. Well per Laura Lynn this is unacceptable. I’ve changed his diet he eats what I eat and we eat it at the table together.  I’ve also taken over laundry responsibilities. I couldn’t help but notice the terrible skid marks in Gavin’s 5 nights at Freddie under ware. So I waited and caught him on the shitter. How you wiping your butt dude I asked him. His under ware lay on the floor I carefully roll them over so he can see the mark and I tell him that’s not right. Show me how you do this. I don’t want to be graphic here but I immediately told him no no no no don’t do that that’s not going to work. I can’t believe he’s had my phone in here.  It was time for butt wiping 101.

  I made spaghetti tonight. Gavin don’t like any meat in his sauce he’s funny like that. I cut his spaghetti up with a pizza cutter and Laura Lynn thinks that’s genius. Laura Lynn turned me on to putting cottage cheese in my spaghetti. It makes it like lasagna. If Gavin has three different foods he wants three different forks and nothing can touch each other. Cheese on spaghetti is ok.  Laura Lynn didn’t join us tonight…..  Gavin was ready to sit down at the table to eat with me. Tonight he sat down in his spot before spaghetti was done. He was trying to order chicken patties. I had to remind him I’m making spaghetti.  While we were eating Gavin said to me “I’m glad mom is gone”. I asked him why? He told me because “you take  better care of me” he said” mom was just here”. I’m only getting to work about 5 hours a day chasing the school bus. I can see I was using her for a crutch and she wasn’t for either of us.three-strikes-youre-out-if-it-bleeds-it.html

We have a lot more changes to make but I can feel it the toxicity is gone.

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