Sunday, we had a pretty good day, Church first, although Karen leaned over halfway through a sermon and whispered loudly “he’s being unnecessarily loud, don’t you think!” And she got up and left.

That afternoon we took a walk, smelled some flowers, sat by the river, and called a few family friends.

So yesterday we had an incident… I worked till about 4:00 and we had plans to go to the library, skate park and dinner. So while Shaun was finishing up work in his office, I told him I was going to lie down for a few minutes before we left. The boys were in the backyard with a friend jumping on the trampoline, I wake up just minutes later to Karen yelling in the backyard “Don’t you love your mom!?” And Joe crying upset. I saw him being pulled across the yard as she is holding and twisting his forearm. 😡

She took him into Shaun’s office saying they were being noisy. Shaun used every restraint he had to calmly tell her if she had an issue with the boys to please come get him or I first. And we do not hurt our boys when we use discipline.

We left shortly after. We had planned on taking her before the incident, but needed some space with the boys to regroup and debrief.

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