Jim, I will be in your area next month - can I stop and pick up some burrito&#39;s???  Sometime when we come, I would love to meet up with you, but this trip is already all planned out for us.  Our best friends live on Lake Whitney, up around Clifton.  Their address is in Morgan, but not sure if that really is a town.  We will leave here on a Friday aftenoon and get to their house on a Saturday evening, on Sunday, we will all make the 2 hr. drive into Dallas for their daughter&#39;s baby shower, then to meet friends for dinner that evening, Monday, some friends from the big D will be heading to the lake with their motorcycle and we will spend the day riding (we will be trailering ours to Texas), Tuesday their son and his family are coming to see us and spend the day and in the evening some friends are coming over for a BBQ, Wed. we are taking the boat out on the lake and Thursday morning, we leave to head to Tulsa to attend my niece&#39;s baby shower on Friday.  I may need a vacation after this trip...there isn&#39;t much time allowed for just kicking back and chillin&#39;....I will have to wait until our anniversary trip in August for that.  We are taking Scotty to Mt. Rushmore in June, but again, won&#39;t be a relaxing trip, but it is all about him and I am sure he will enjoy it.<br /><br />Falina, glad that Dennis is making the run this week instead of the other driver.  Take some time for yourself and just relax, kick back with a good book and do nothing...you deserve it.<br /><br />Thank you for all the well wishes for the new family.  I will miss my regular Weds. with the munchkin but I truly think this is the best thing for him.  He needs to settle into the routine of a regular family and see that Darcey is going to be there for him.  His mom called me yesterday - it really bothers her that Scotty is so crazy about Darcey - she didn&#39;t say so in so many words but I could tell and Darcey told me that Scotty has told her some of the things that his mom has said to him about her and they are just insane, totally off the wall, in trying to turn him against her.  I did urge his mom to not use the child as a pawn in her own selfish vendetta.  When she called me, it was under the guise of wanting me to ask Scotty&#39;s teacher something when I picked him up yesterday.  I found out yesterday afternoon that I would not be picking him up...I told you that Darcey was quitting work at the end of the month, well I had forgotten that Wed. is her regular scheduled day off, so she was planning on picking him up on that day starting yesterday.  I told Leah that she would have to call Darcey or Gregory about it.  She kept trying to pull me into something that I thought was a totally inane beef with her and I finally told her that they are married now and I no longer have to deal with those matters.  I told her that I think that it is good for Scotty to be experiencing a &quot;normal family life&quot; as he has no memory of that from before and I am staying out of their business.  I told her that she knows that I love Scotty more than life itself and I will always protect him, and I think he will flourish in this situation.  He will be having regular family dinners around the table with his dad, new stepmom and sister and Darcey is very vigilant about personal hygiene (bath time, teeth brushing, clean clothes, etc.).  When he comes back from his mom&#39;s, he always looks like he slept in his clothes and hasn&#39;t bathed or brushed his teeth.  Darcey also makes the kids pick up their rooms and has a &quot;wind down time&quot; with them before bed, where they sit and talk and cuddle and then they read a Bible story and say their prayers.  He has always seemed so much more relaxed when he is with his dad and seems out of sorts when he comes home from his mom&#39;s.  <br /><br />Ed, I am so happy that this ordeal is over for you and Roe. Enjoy your little surprise with her...<br />Well, guess I had better get off my rear and get my chores done...