Ha, I can vent here because it's my blog.

After missing two visitations and not having any contact with his kids for over a week, here's a verbatim text message exchange between the kids' dad and me today, after Abbey was released from the hospital following eye surgery.

Him: "How is Abbey? My piece of shit boss made me come in at 8 so he cud hav off today he's about to get fired."

Me: "Hurting. You missed your last 2 visits with the kids before missing her surgery today. WTF?"

Him: "I'm skipping ld" (ld = labor detail...a punishment imposed upon him after he drunkenly wrecked his parents' car into a cop car the night me and New Baby came home from the hospital. He said he couldn't stay to help take care of her, me, the older kids or any combination thereof because he "had to work in the morning.") "tomorrow so I can spend all day with them shits been crazy lately not sure what's gonna happen with my job."

Me: "Your job was closed yesterday."

Him: "Yeah, I'm talking about today yesterday I got in a fight with my dad and didn't wake up till 2 really not tryin to deal with either of yall right now my nerves r shot and ur jus gonna b mean."

Me: "Mean is not coming to see your kids or even calling them for a week."

Him: "Im coming to see them 2moro mean is getting off on being witholding and treating someone like crap when u don't need anything from them."

Me: "Yeah, sometimes shit gets crazy at my work too and I don't come home for a week. Oh wait, that's not me. Because I'm a responsible parent. So, hope you got a nice long nap yesterday. I'm gonna hold our daughter and clean her blood and puke and tears. Grow up. Or not, cause I got this."

There was no response.

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to learn from all of this (probably some sort of more selective process for choosing a mate), but what I have learned is trust no one, take care of your things yourself and many, many people are just awful.

Quote of the day:

Me: "Do you know how much I love you?"

Abbey: "Yes."

Me: "How much?"

Abbey: "Thwee!"