a disclosure

I read a lot of etiquette books looking for it, but none contained explanations on how to tell the people who have followed your blog for seven years that you and your partner have split up and are now coparenting in opposite blocks of time. I imagine Miss Manners would rather I said nothing. I feel that those of you who have followed me from LiveJournal to HomeschoolJournal to Wordpress and then here deserve an explanation of the changes you will see.

The foremost of those changes is that I have stopped homeschooling or even talking much about the fourteen-year-old, the Gamer. He is the Daddio's kid with the Daddio's ex-wife, and his parents have decided that a private, democratic (Sudbury-like) high school is the best place for him. He likes some parts of being there very much. I don't have any visitation with him but I hope to see him for dinner here once in a while.

Nothing else will really be too different, I think. Even though we have moved to a new city, the Daddio has moved here also. Even though the Scientist and the Storyteller are not biologically his, they will continue to know him, as they have since ages one and three, as their one and only dad. They will continue to call him "dad", and visit with him on the same schedule as the child the Daddio and I have biologically together (the Hero).

I don't want sympathy or congratulations. Here is a fact and life carries on. I wish that I didn't have to say this publicly, but I wouldn't wish you guys away for anything.