Finally

Good news!  We had our court date today, and the hubs got his original charge dropped.  They lowered the charge to summary harassment, which is awesome because it's the lowest offense you can have.  We still have a pretty big fee to pay, but that's ok.

The judge asked the District Attorney if the change in the charges was approved by the "victim". The DA responded that their office tried multiple times to contact the "victim", and she neither answered her phone or returned their calls.  The judge commented that he remembers seeing the "victim" on the other (defendant's) side of the bar on several occasions.  So it's ALL OVER!  *sigh*

That's the update.

In other news...

The disaster area.

Just an observation that I made: it is IMPOSSIBLE to get my kids to clean up their room.  They have a million toys but I can't say that they play with anything in particular.  They just pull everything out onto the floor and make a mess.  That's fine, they're kids.


It got me to thinking, I don't think my husband or his brother and sister had this problem when they were kids.  They didn't have a ton of toys to play with.  They made kites out of plastic bags and sticks. They were outside constantly, and they invented their own games.  By those standards, my kids are spoiled.

I'm scared about the effect that this typical American lifestyle will have on them.  They're so overstimulated by plastic contraptions that take a constant supply of batteries and make incessant noises, how can they focus on a single thing that will stimulate their creativity and imagination?  My kids are smart, but am I maximizing their potential?

What the heck...

It's been forever since I posted!  My apologies.  Things have been really crazy here.

The hubs now has a date- April 23rd for the pre-trial conference, and April 30th to enter a plea and/or set a trial date.  We have a great lawyer, so hopefully there won't have to be a trial date.  I'll keep you all posted.

I'm still missing Mexico.  I went onto Idealist and found a job that sounded super interesting to me, based in Chiapas.  I spent a WHOLE DAY working on my resume and cover letter, perfecting it and making it completely awesome.  I sent it in and waited 24 more hours to find out that the job position had already been filled.  Yeah, I was kinda pissed off about it.  I tried to give the job poster the benefit of the doubt that maybe the position had JUST been filled and maybe they hadn't had time to take it off of Idealist.  Then I kept checking for new jobs every day since then and the job is still listed.  For crying out loud IF YOU POST A JOB AND THE POSITION IS FILLED, TAKE THE DAMN POSTING DOWN!  /rant.

In other news, I tried to talk to my mom about the possibility of us moving to Mexico. When I told her, she seemed fine, she remained calm. The next morning she brought it up, saying that she thinks it would be a bad idea because we would essentially be shortchanging the kids' opportunities and that if my husband misses his family he needs to "just get over it".  I guess I just need to come to terms with the fact that she's not going to be supportive.  I can't help wishing she would, though.