Jenna T-day visit was massive success…
She had been PMSing the week before, and even over the phone it was a nightmare. For Cooper’s sake I didn’t want to have her being miserable here at the house. It must sound strange to be on the outside looking in and hear that but when Jenna is miserable, she projects it outwards so that everyone else is miserable, also. For the rest of us it would be terrible but we would deal with it. But for Cooper, who only sees his mom a few days out of the year, I wanted, we all wanted, for him to have a pleasant time and have good memories of her.
Anyway, everything went very well. Jenna had a good time, and Cooper did also. CCS (the hospital where she stays) came and met us in Champaign, IL so I didnt have to drive all the way to Carbondale (2hrs one way instead of 4hrs). All that went without a hitch also.
Actually, not everything went according to plan. Originally I wanted to take Jenna to church to meet everyone there who was praying for her. Unfortunately, Jenna’s granddad died down in Alabama on T-day so her parents had to leave town on Sunday, and because I didn’t want Cooper to miss any more school (he had ear infection that kept him out over a week the previous month), I scrapped my original plans to take Jenna all the way to Carbondale then stay with her a couple of days. I was going to take her all the way to Carbondale because if we had gone to church, we’d have been too late to meet the CCS van in Champaign.
Anyhoo, Jenna is back in Carbondale, happy, and I am waiting on a new alternator for my car so I can go see her again. I was supposed to go *this* weekend, but due to the car issue, am stuck here.
I am on the phone with her right now and she is in a bad mood. She left her phone in the car when she was here, so she hasn’t been able to contact me at will. I try to call her throughout the day to check in with her, but she is saying she doesn’t remember talking to me earlier. Frustrating for both of us.
More later…