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"Peter arrived to collect the kids on Friday and of course, as he headed out the door, he turned to me and said &amp;quot;So, I&amp;#039;ll just drop the kids by on Sunday after her game?&amp;quot; Nice try, Peter, but I saw that one coming. I just smiled and said &amp;quot;No, I have plans.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Plans?&amp;quot; I nodded at him with my eyebrows up and a polite smile on my face while he waited for me to explain further. I didn&amp;#039;t. I had no intention of enlightening him further. I&amp;#039;ve played this out with him before, always stumbling over myself or making up a pretend dinner date with a friend. I guess I&amp;#039;ll just have to keep saying no until he gets the picture. And &amp;quot;I have plans&amp;quot; isn&amp;#039;t a lie - I have plans to do stuff around the house, read a good book, or sit on the couch. I have plans to spend a free evening enjoying myself and knowing my kids are getting time with the father they only see ten nights out of the month now - and six of those nights are single overnights so they get (maybe) four hours with him before bedtime. Our agreement says that on his weekend, he has them from Friday night until Monday morning. His inconvenience doesn&amp;#039;t change that. It&amp;#039;s getting easier for me to stick to my guns, too. It is no exaggeration when I tell you that since he&amp;#039;s moved out-of-state, he&amp;#039;s tried to return them early every single weekend that he&amp;#039;s had them. Every single one. And worse, his daughter has noticed it, too. How can he not realize that? How does he think Anna feels knowing that Dad&amp;#039;s desire to beat rush hour traffic is more important than extra hours with his kids? It makes me want to hit him, it really does. Knock some sense into him. If only it worked that way. I&amp;#039;d just hurt my hand and he&amp;#039;d just keep on being selfish, anyway. Should I say something to him about all this? Or would I just be talking to a wall named Peter? I just feel like he&amp;#039;s not getting it, and I don&amp;#039;t know that he ever will. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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