The international edition has arrived!

In 2017, SO and I continued our integrating our household and lives with the peace of an ocean between us from Bratty.  Of course, that doesn’t mean Bratty’s drama stopped – but it did mean I could sit back and just hear about Bratty’s mis-adventures from SO without being directly impacted J

After returning from the reunion, SO and I had a date night.  I still had simmering resentments from Lasagna-gate and finally blew a gasket when SO remarked, ‘are you still upset about that'?  WTF!  I went through it all again, including Bratty’s pesto accusations that he did not get the pleasure of witnessing.  He said the stuff he saw was mainly in the store and thought it was Bratty voicing her opinion.  He said if he had seen Bratty mouth off to me in the kitchen about the pesto he would have said something to her then but didn’t think it best to revisit it with Bratty. 

The summer of 2016 rolled on and SD returned home.  SO was still living separately in his 2 bedroom apartment while I was waiting for my new home to finish construction.  After SD returned home, we planned some dinners and outings for the three of us. 

As we ended Chapter 1, SO and I were at the start of our new relationship.  It was an exciting time for both of us, the ‘honeymoon’ phase of things.  We had wonderful dates and began to spend overnights at each other’s places.  In October 2015, he jetted off to SD’s university for Parent’s weekend.  He spent time walking the campus with SD, checking out her dorm and classes, and going through the agenda of university-sponsored parent-child events.  I made sure to give him space for this and did not text or call during their weekend together, but was excited to hear his stories when he retur