Strange Father's Day
06/20/2004 11:22 p.m.
I made breakfast for the kids' dad this morning for father's day along with their step mother and their new baby brother (who eerily resembles my children but, of course, is not mine. He's a little cutie, though, and he grins at me like an auntie).

I can't even begin to describe the strangeness of getting along with the kids' dad AND his latest wife as friends. If someone would have told me nine years ago that someday he and his fourth wife (third since me) would be welcome in my home for a meal, I would have scoffed them RIGHT OFF the face of the earth. I feel like I've entered some sort of parallel reality....one that I may have even helped to create with all my visions of parents who get along to make things better for the children. Amazing.

I feel really blessed today even though I don't have my dad anymore. I feel really blessed with the family and friends I do have, and blessed that, nine years after a bitterly difficult divorce, my childrens' father and I aren't still despising each other.
I am currently Friendly
I am listening to the Rug Rats (compliments of my children)