Holidays, Come and Go Please!

I do not want to sound like  a party pooper, but I am so ready for the holiday season to be over and done with. We aren't going to be doing much this year with the financial situation and going to court once a month. I'm ready to go back to school and for the stores to not be crowded anymore haha.

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. I'm going to be making the essentials, but that's about it. Last year, I thought that by this time everything would be completed settled and I'd be able to go all out, BUT unfortunetly it's not that way whatsoever, so we will have to wait until next year. I'm not even going to be putting up a tree for Christmas. This apartment just isn't big enough and with Lily the age she is, I know that having a tree up in the first place would be a horrible idea. Next year she will be old enough to help with decorations, etc. Plus, by this time next year, I won't be in this apartment and don't even plan to be in this state.

I know I am not the only person that feels this way, but this year has gone by in the blink of the eye. Thanksgiving is tomorrow, then next month it will be Christmas and then BAM! It's 2013. Where did the time go!? People aren't lying when they say after you graduate, time goes by fast. I think it goes by even faster after having a child.

I'm still in the processing of researching the area I'll be moving to. It's going to be a surprise, so I won't even mention the state until I know for sure. I need to look up schools for both me and Lily as well as the neighborhood, crime rate and all that other jazz. I will be going back to school in January and plan to keep going even when we move. If I have to take classes online in between, then I'm totally fine with that. As long as I'm going!

I had court a couple of weeks ago and it went pretty well. He never called in, and since that was the second time, he just made himself look like an idiot. His lawyer did however, ask if me and Lily could fly out to Virginia for the holidays and stay with them. That would make me feel incredibly uncomfortable, not to mention having to be on a plane for that long with a toddler in my life. I didn't tell him to move, so it's only fair that he come here if he wants to see his daughter. Obviously they can't make me go, so I told them no and my reasoning. He's almost 4 months behind on court-ordered child support as well. The judge told him that if he wanted priveldges, he needed to pay to help support her. I still haven't gotten my next court date in the mail, but I'm almost positive it will be before Christmas since he wants her for Christmas. We shall see...