Seems it is easy for me to get wrapped up in what Anastasia tells me and take it for face value. Bad idea.
Anastasia is ten. No matter how mature she acts, she is ten. She has the memory and creativeness of a ten year old.
My mistake was taking what my little ten year old said as face value instead of questioning the person the tales were about.
I got wrapped up in the moment and all my past came back and suddenly I was fighting for myself again. Because Anastasia tried to tell me what she remembered mixed with what she felt mixed with something she was trying to tell me.
I am sorry. I am sorry to my neighbor who should have never had to deal with this. I am sorry to Anastasia who should have never been in the middle of this. I made a promise this will never happen again, and it will not.
So today is Saturday. We normally hang out in the mornings and do stuff in the afternoon. I am not sure what to do today though. I told Anastasia on Thursday night I would take her to the High School Musical 3 movie today if she was good on Friday. Clearly she was not and decided to make it worse by lying so many times to me.
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Before Anastasia went to school today we had a talk about today and her being a good girl. We talked about not talking while she was not supposed to be and her attitude. I told her just do it for today, thinking the one day at a time approach would help.
As we pulled up to the school I gave her money for band so she could get her own drum and drum sticks. She seemed very attentive and I felt link she would have a good day
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