Ok so life has been a little crazy around here. 

I was all set to buy my plane ticket south to spend a few days in the sun when I discovered that my finances were spread a little thinner than I had anticipated, and I couldn't pull together the plane fare. I might still be able to pull it off if I manage to sell enough stuff at fest, or if I can round up some paying customers for my tarot readings instead of the friends and family who all expect me to do it for free.

Still I am very disappointed.  Really blue for a couple of days as I had spent months telling myself not to count on going and not to look forward to it as it would probably not happen and then suddenly it looked good and I started to look forward to it.  Slam. Hopes dashed! Dammit!

Got Eve started at her new daycare yesterday.  It is a very nice place although not as convenient as the old daycare.  Still it was the only way we could keep the daycare subsidy.  Apparently someone at the old day care P*ssed off the powers that be in this city and they yanked all the subsidized daycare slots from the two daycares owned by them.  So they lost over 150 or the 200 children served by their two daycares and have had to lay off 25 daycare workers. Not pretty.

Eve seems to be settling in ok.  I think she misses the friends she made at the old place but she will make new friends pretty quickly I imagine.  Still I feel for her.  As a military brat I know what it is like to keep changing schools and having to make new friends every time.

Eve and her mother went out together on Canada Day.  Eve apparently went swimming in a city fountain and had her face painted.  Altogether she was exhausted but happy when she came home.

Classes are suspended for the Coven for the summer.  Three of the coven members are moving, and we have fest to work on so time is scarce. 

Still the sh*t hit the fan over the last few days anyway.  Swan is having issues with her partner, lots of fighting and emotional abuse and manipulation going on, and now days before the move, her son announced that he hates her partner (not without good reason) and he does not want them to continue living with him. 

It is about time he told her how he really feels.  Until now he has always just said he is happy if she is happy, which meant she could keep convincing herself that what she was doing in staying in this relationship wasn't hurting her kids.  Now she knows different.  Still, it looks like she is going to have to stay a little longer as with everything packed and needing to be out of the present house on Saturday, there isn't enough time to sort her stuff from his or to find another place to live.

My fear is that once she gets moved, she will persuade herself that things are going to be ok, which  they will be until the next time he grabs her or raises a hand to her and her son steps in and either gets hurt or he hurts her partner and ends up on charges for it.

I have done my best to talk to her and I have offered space at my home for emergency shelterif need by, although I have no real idea where I would put three extra people, two cats and a snake and lizard.  I do only have a three bedroom house with three adults and a child living here now. Why do I do these things?

I need a vacation and some sanity...anyone offering??