Still Here. Life seems to be Going in the Right Direction

So a year has officially past since I told Andrew I was leaving him.  It will be August 17th before we officially stopped residing in the same house.

I have no regrets, if anything life has reinforced that I am where I am supposed to be now.

I am sad for the loss of the relationship.  Obviously this was not how I would have expected things to end up when I married him 8 years ago.
One thing remains clear we still aren't going in the same direction at all.

William has come to terms with the fact that Andrew and I will not ever get back together.  This does not mean he hasn't stopped feeling sad/frustrated.  He likes that we can get along and we don't fight anymore.
After Andrew attending the All Sections End of Year Scout camp with William and me as a Leader William commented on how that was the best camping trip ever with Mom and Dad because we didn't fight once.


I have started counselling for the issues from my past.  The session itself went well.  I kinda spiraled downward for several days afterward.  Fortunately I went to visit KW and was distracted by gaming, good friends and a birthday party.

I almost feel like me again.  The me I lost a very long time ago.  I am still not feeling as socially inclined as I have been in the past, but slowly that will come too.  I feel at times I still need to hold the world at arms length.

I have my seemingly infinite amount of patience back --which is a good thing since I have taken on the task of home schooling William.

I will be looking for ideas and sites etc in the future for Grade 1 etc.

For the moment I have just been focusing on getting his printing caught up, between Jen (my sister) and I we have found a number of inexpensive work books that William has been THRILLED to get.
He thinks they are the best thing in the world.  And I have let him jump around through the books (especially the ones on spelling).  He has also had to read me a book of his choosing every day to increase his concentration.  We are now getting 3/4 of the way through a book (generally something from the Fly Guy series by Tedd Arnold) before he starts "forgetting" words.  "Forgetting" meaning he will read x number of pages perfectly and then we will hit a point where suddenly he doesn't know a single word --and no it isn't from memorization I have had him start at different points in the books and get the same result.

He is also back to sleeping in his own bed.  I suspect that whatever was causing his stress at school was the culprit because bed time (aside from the "I'm hungry") has been relatively problem free.

William and I are just over half way through me reading him Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
We have now watched the first three movies.  He hated the third movie.  "It had TOO many CHANGES from the book Mommy."  He thought the second movie was okay and he has now watched the first one about 10 times over the past couple of weeks so it is safe to say that is his favourite.

We will be stopping after the Order of the Phoenix.  I am hoping at that point that he will take up an interest in trying to read some of it on his own in a year or two.

I can't wait to hear hit thoughts on The Lord of the Rings versus the movies when he gets older.