It's been a busy couple of weeks.  Aiden has found the chipmunk holes in our yard.  Now every morning he yells good morning to them and says hi every afternoon.  When we feed his birds he feeds hi chipmunk too.  This past weekend he and my mom had a cookie day.  He has been waiting for four months to make cookies again with her.  They made "monster" cookies that had peanut butter, oats, M+Ms, chocolate chips, white choc. chips and coconut in them.  

Aiden loves cold water, like Ice cold. He doesn't get that from me that's for sure.  The following is a conversation about ice.

"How cold are ice cubes?"
"Freezing. "
" No, I mean how cold, temperature?"

He wants to know how everything works and why things are the way they are.  He noticed the other morning that the dandelions were curled up.  He wanted to know why they weren't flowers.  Apparently it has something to do with pollination.

Today Mom had an appointment in Burlington, a follow up with one of her surgeons.  On the way home driving down (up) the highway today we passed a tractor trailer. I out loud wonder if it could be something cool under the tarps.(Yes I realize I watch too much shipping wars). Aiden mentioned that he saw a fly, but not that it was near the trailer. It went ahead of us and eventually in traffic we caught back up to it. I took a closer look at what looked like ordinary orange tarps only to realize what Aiden had been talking about. It was a giant trailer full of bees and hives. So for the net 20 minutes or so we talked about bees, and pollination and how our food depends on bees. Pretty cool. 

Sorry I haven't written in a while.  Aiden has been ok.  ALLERGIES!!!  He can't blow his nose yet (working on it) so everything is post nasal.  He gets coughing so much that he makes himself sick.  He was sent home from school today because of it.  I called and explained to them and they said that he could go back tomorrow.  Tonight he wanted Nana to read to him as usual.  I think that my child may be the only five year old that goes to bed with a night time story of ready ten birds from his "Birds of Massachusetts" book.  Silly boy.  That's all for tonight.  I will try to remember to write more often. The legos above were our Mother's Day project.

 
Sooo...I am divorced as of this past Thursday.  I am happy.  I never thought when I entered that relationship that it would end let alone be a horribly abusive one.  I thought that we would be happy and have a couple of kids and grow old together.  After years and years of every abuse imaginable I got out.  I got out the day he hurt Aiden.  I am trying to be the bigger person.  I could have demanded a lot more, could have fought a lot harder but where would that get me.  I chose to take the higher road.  The road I can be proud of and one day Aiden will be proud too.  Proud that I am happy and proud that I put HIM first.

Aiden is sick.  Low temp and runny nose.  Super snuggly, as mom found out all night last night.  He goes and snuggles with Nana because he knows that I will put him back to bed.  He is feeling better.  The day started out with him laying on the couch and not moving for a couple of hours.  He gradually moved off the couch to the floor, then started playing etc.  Hoping tomorrow he is better so I can get some more quotes for this.  Just wanted to update really quick and share what I have been through this week.  I promise the next one will be all about him.