Another Birthday Party Day-March 10, 2011

Today was Samantha's 19th birthday. My 5th chlid. Thinking back 19 years now, she was 8lbs 7oz born at 11:59pm, so she's as late in the day as possible, and all of our children and my mother in law were at the birth. Although it was really only a few hours of real labour she was a posterior presentation so she was really bruised up by my pelvic bones. I didn't even notice that when she was born, it was only when my doctor mentioned it, and then I looked at pictures later I could see how bruised up her little face was. She was so beautiful even with the bruising. It was such a joyous occassion. I took her into a jacuzzi for her first bath a few hours after she was born and was home the next morning. Anyhow, we had a bunch of her friends over and her boyfriends mother(her boyfriend is away in U.S. at school on a baseball scholarship), her brothers and sisters and nephew and niece and even her father came. We've been apart for about 14 or 15 years now, and just in the past year we've been able to attend functions at each others place. I've invited him over the years, but it just didn't happen, and I had never been asked to his place. I could never understand why divorced people couldn't still be part of each others family. When there are children involved you are always going to be joined in some way, and we have 5 together. If there was once enough love to bring 5 children into the world together, then we should be able to see past any past problems and focus on the good and the children. So it's just wonderful that he came up here and it seems like he fits right in to me. I am not sure how my husband feels about it, but I think he is fine with it. If he's not, he would never say otherwise, as he knows how important it is to the children to have their father here and part of the family. He's such a great man. We've been to his place over the past few months as well.
I've made an appointment with a goverment office to find out about a program called sceond career. For people in career transition the govenment helps with retraining. School was good today, the quiz went ok I think.