@Mama_Cakes sounds so easy, doesn’t it. I am unemployable here. I just got a tip on a ‘maybe’ job, but it is working freelance. No one is going to rent to a foreign, single mother with no income. At the moment, we have a roof over our heads and money for food. Sometimes the internet/tv gets shut off and sometimes we get down to the day the power will be turned off, but those bills get paid in the end. If I was on my own, I wouldn’t even have a computer. The freelance job I might be starting next week needs a computer and internet connection and it pays more than cleaning toilets.
He will be leaving more often soon. He talked to his work on Friday. He will go back to working for two departments (no pay rise) but they will let him pick his jobs so he will be going to places like Brazil for 6 weeks or more at a time.
This has been a waiting game for some years. Waiting for the oldest boy, my autistic step son) to turn 18 (which he does this week!) and, now, waiting for the younger one to get old enough to have a house key and keep himself busy if I have to be working in town. The youngest one isn’t quite there yet. My youngest is having trouble in school and bullies and fighing. I like this school and how things are going and I would have to leave this school district if I left the Asshole. I can put up with just about anything for my kids.