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Help[Games] Re: Darkest Congrats Round Four (edit)
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Posting Name: X Mar (7)(?)
Surname: Romanov
SO: Ruslan (35)
SO: Noa Valentina (42)
DD: Isadora Jona "Isa" (15)
DS/DS/DD: Maximilian Levi "Max" / Mordecai Rhys "Cai" / Winter Bronwen "Winnie" (13)
DS: Gabriel Quinton "Gabe" (died at 5 months)
DS: Connor Austin "Con" (8)
DS: Romeo Ivan “Rome” (7) (illegitimate - Ruslan)
DS: Sebastian Jude “Seb” (5)
(note: i'm using the Dutch school system in my writing. This means that Kindergarten is attached to primary school (it's called grade 1 & 2), and highschool is from age 12 (1st grade), and there is no such thing as junior high etc.)
Five years have passed and quite a lot has happened. When Seb was 3 I asked Ruslan again whether he'd let me go back to work or not. He still didn't want me to work, but said that he was fine with it, when Seb would go to kindergarten, and I'd find work at a school near him or in the school we were going to put him in. I immediately tried to find out if there were going to be any vacancies for teaching in the area in the next year. One school said that they could use someone for part-time teaching and who would also give exra classes to kids that needed special attention. It wasn't exactly the same as having my own class, but I was only to happy to agree to do that in the future.
A couple of months later the day had finally come that all our kids were in school. Isa was in the 3rd grade and doing fine. She had begun to take an interest in boys and now had a crush on a 17 year old guy from her school. The triplets had just started highschool. Max and Cai proved to be troublemakers, even more than they had been in primary school, but so far there had been no serious consequences (yet?). Winnie was very quiet, but the best student of the bunch, she only brought good grades home and once got really upset over a 60 she had gotten. I'm happy that she took her study seriously, but a bit concerned that she might be taking it a little too seriously. Con was in grade 4 in primary school (the normal grade for a 7 year old) and doing okay. His teacher isn't too happy with him, because he's rather loud most of the time. But I'm just happy he not more of a troublemaker, like most of the men in the family. Rome is in grade 3 and there's no denying that he's his father's child. He looks exactly like Ruslan and is pretty dominant. In class he once refused to do writing, because 'he didn't feel like it at the moment'. I still have trouble treating him like one of my kids, because he isn't. Sometimes I wish that his mother would just come pick him up one the day, the same way she had left him on our doorstep once. Ruslan scolds at me for not treating him exaclty like the others, but I just can't. Seb got into the first grade (kindergarten) and I've started working at his school.
When I had been working there for two months (and really enjoying every minute of it!), things went bad. Ruslan and I still didn't talk much. We did sleep together, but only on his initiative and wihtout the romance we once had. We fought a lot and he started drinking. He became more and more hostile and I had no idea what to do about it. He went out one night and didn't come home. I didn't think too much of it at first, but then the second night he didn't came home. And he also failed to show up at work (the boss of the bar hwere he worked kept calling me every two hours, asking if he was back yet). No one seemed to know where he was. I feared something had happened to him and instantly regretted all the moments we fought and that I had said bad things to him. He didn't come home the third night either. The day after that I found out where he was. The police had called and asked me to come over. I left my kids in the care of the neighbour and went to the police station. There I found out that Ruslan had been arrested. He had hit his boss at work (his construction work, not the bartender work) and the man was in the hospital. They had pressed charges against him and his hearing would be next week. They hadn't released him until then, because he had been aggressive to the police officers as well. I asked ot see him and they told me he didn't want to see me.
Later he got sentenced to prison. It's a year later now and he's still not home. My parents are helping out with the kids, and some friends try to help as well. I find myself actually missing Ruslan, but the kids miss him even more. Especially Rome has trouble adjusting to the situation of having his dad around. Ruslan still won't be back for quite a while. I hope we can manage without him until he gets back. I can't really control Max and Cai anymore and Rome has gotten into fights a lot lately. I don't know what to do about them...
Random event: husband got arrested.
I'll add pics in a few minutes
Surname: Romanov
SO: Ruslan (35)
SO: Noa Valentina (42)
DD: Isadora Jona "Isa" (15)
DS/DS/DD: Maximilian Levi "Max" / Mordecai Rhys "Cai" / Winter Bronwen "Winnie" (13)
DS: Gabriel Quinton "Gabe" (died at 5 months)
DS: Connor Austin "Con" (8)
DS: Romeo Ivan “Rome” (7) (illegitimate - Ruslan)
DS: Sebastian Jude “Seb” (5)
(note: i'm using the Dutch school system in my writing. This means that Kindergarten is attached to primary school (it's called grade 1 & 2), and highschool is from age 12 (1st grade), and there is no such thing as junior high etc.)
Five years have passed and quite a lot has happened. When Seb was 3 I asked Ruslan again whether he'd let me go back to work or not. He still didn't want me to work, but said that he was fine with it, when Seb would go to kindergarten, and I'd find work at a school near him or in the school we were going to put him in. I immediately tried to find out if there were going to be any vacancies for teaching in the area in the next year. One school said that they could use someone for part-time teaching and who would also give exra classes to kids that needed special attention. It wasn't exactly the same as having my own class, but I was only to happy to agree to do that in the future.
A couple of months later the day had finally come that all our kids were in school. Isa was in the 3rd grade and doing fine. She had begun to take an interest in boys and now had a crush on a 17 year old guy from her school. The triplets had just started highschool. Max and Cai proved to be troublemakers, even more than they had been in primary school, but so far there had been no serious consequences (yet?). Winnie was very quiet, but the best student of the bunch, she only brought good grades home and once got really upset over a 60 she had gotten. I'm happy that she took her study seriously, but a bit concerned that she might be taking it a little too seriously. Con was in grade 4 in primary school (the normal grade for a 7 year old) and doing okay. His teacher isn't too happy with him, because he's rather loud most of the time. But I'm just happy he not more of a troublemaker, like most of the men in the family. Rome is in grade 3 and there's no denying that he's his father's child. He looks exactly like Ruslan and is pretty dominant. In class he once refused to do writing, because 'he didn't feel like it at the moment'. I still have trouble treating him like one of my kids, because he isn't. Sometimes I wish that his mother would just come pick him up one the day, the same way she had left him on our doorstep once. Ruslan scolds at me for not treating him exaclty like the others, but I just can't. Seb got into the first grade (kindergarten) and I've started working at his school.
When I had been working there for two months (and really enjoying every minute of it!), things went bad. Ruslan and I still didn't talk much. We did sleep together, but only on his initiative and wihtout the romance we once had. We fought a lot and he started drinking. He became more and more hostile and I had no idea what to do about it. He went out one night and didn't come home. I didn't think too much of it at first, but then the second night he didn't came home. And he also failed to show up at work (the boss of the bar hwere he worked kept calling me every two hours, asking if he was back yet). No one seemed to know where he was. I feared something had happened to him and instantly regretted all the moments we fought and that I had said bad things to him. He didn't come home the third night either. The day after that I found out where he was. The police had called and asked me to come over. I left my kids in the care of the neighbour and went to the police station. There I found out that Ruslan had been arrested. He had hit his boss at work (his construction work, not the bartender work) and the man was in the hospital. They had pressed charges against him and his hearing would be next week. They hadn't released him until then, because he had been aggressive to the police officers as well. I asked ot see him and they told me he didn't want to see me.
Later he got sentenced to prison. It's a year later now and he's still not home. My parents are helping out with the kids, and some friends try to help as well. I find myself actually missing Ruslan, but the kids miss him even more. Especially Rome has trouble adjusting to the situation of having his dad around. Ruslan still won't be back for quite a while. I hope we can manage without him until he gets back. I can't really control Max and Cai anymore and Rome has gotten into fights a lot lately. I don't know what to do about them...
Random event: husband got arrested.
I'll add pics in a few minutes
This message was edited 1/5/2008, 7:02 PM
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Pics of the family
This is Ruslan with his typical facial exression:
This is an old one of Isa, it was taken last summer outside my parents' house. She's the only one with freckles in the family, she looks like my mom:
This is Max. This photo was taken in the winter, he looks a bit pale here and he's squinting a bit:
This is Cai. This was taken last summer, he has lighter hair than Max', but other than that they look a lot alike:
This is Winnie, it's from last year, but it's my fav picture of her. I think she looks quite like Isa, only without freckles:
I thought I'd include one of Gabe before he died. He was such a cutie:
This is Con, I think he looks a lot like his brothers, especially Max who had the exact same hair colour at that age:
And here's a picture of Rome. He looks so much like Ruslan. He even has 'that look' in his eyes sometimes. I hate the necklace btw, but Ruslan got it for him, and he never takes it off:
And finally here's Seb. He looks like all of his brothers did at 5. He's growing up too fast, I wish my baby would stay like this forever :)
And yeah, there's no pic of me. I couldn't find a single one where I looked good...
This is Ruslan with his typical facial exression:
This is an old one of Isa, it was taken last summer outside my parents' house. She's the only one with freckles in the family, she looks like my mom:
This is Max. This photo was taken in the winter, he looks a bit pale here and he's squinting a bit:
This is Cai. This was taken last summer, he has lighter hair than Max', but other than that they look a lot alike:
This is Winnie, it's from last year, but it's my fav picture of her. I think she looks quite like Isa, only without freckles:
I thought I'd include one of Gabe before he died. He was such a cutie:
This is Con, I think he looks a lot like his brothers, especially Max who had the exact same hair colour at that age:
And here's a picture of Rome. He looks so much like Ruslan. He even has 'that look' in his eyes sometimes. I hate the necklace btw, but Ruslan got it for him, and he never takes it off:
And finally here's Seb. He looks like all of his brothers did at 5. He's growing up too fast, I wish my baby would stay like this forever :)
And yeah, there's no pic of me. I couldn't find a single one where I looked good...
This message was edited 1/5/2008, 6:30 PM
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