Check mail for Ms. [spelled incorrectly Step Mother] [last name]’s Mother’s Day Gift!

[The Ex] [last name] <[the ex email]@[email].com> Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:31 PM Reply-To: [the ex email]@[email].com To: [Custodial Dad’s home email]@[email].com, [Custodial dad email]@[email].com
Hello, [Custodial Dad] & Mrs. [last name].
[daughter] and I sent out your Mother’s Day present today.
Inside is a card and photo for Grandma, too.
The mailing was via US Postal Service Delivery Confirmation Receipt.
Ticket number is: 0307 3330 0001 7028 6012
It can be tracked upon delivery at www.usps.com.
Enjoy!
God Bless.
[The Ex] & [daughter] [last name]

--- On Sun, 5/4/08, [The Ex] [last name] <[the ex email]@[email].com> wrote:From: [The Ex] [last name] <[the ex email]@[email].com> Subject: Web Cam May 4 ‘08 To: [Custodial Dad’s home email]@[email].com, [Custodial dad email]@[email].com Cc: [the ex email]@[email].com Date: Sunday, May 4, 2008, 7:57 AM
Hello, [last name]s!
Glad we caught you to talk with [daughter] this week, [Custodial Dad]. 
Friday was just to share her fair at school. 
She was excited, so we thought you’d want to hear her version of things! 
Saturday was just a post-pinata joy! 
[daughter] thought it was great that you had a similar day of birthdays and car rides! 
After the call she quickly revisited our PM agenda of craft chopping and (more) pizza! 
Seems like the phone calls are fun!  Glad for you both.
Thanks for your texts and emails this week.
We want to reach you when you are available to [daughter].
But, please understand that it is OK if we call impromptu and you are busy.
[daughter] and I have talked about time frames and activities for you guys at home/ work, etc.
She’s understanding as she also watches the time to secure timely arrival to play dates, birthdays, Children’s Theater, etc.!
I respect that 7AM is not good to extend Sunday morning and that Saturday is not a good day for you at this time.
Please let us know when/if that changes.
We will continue to call you for [daughter] to chat. 
At this juncture, calls to you are my suggestion as I evaluate her enthusiasm about something in her day.  I say, “Hey, wanna tell Dad?”  So then we try your phone.
I have made sure [daughter] has had a strong belief in your care and love for her. 
She knows that you not having time at a random call is separate from that.
And I think you do a good job of saying:  “Daddy really wants to listen to your story, but can I call you back..or call me later etc.” It is good. 
[daughter] just states to me: “We can call Dad later, Mom.”  or “He’ll call back soon.”
For the most part, it seems that it is working well.
Well, on to today... sending attached instructions for a boat building  mini kit.
Thought you may want the option of building it with [daughter].  (Not mandatory at all.)
Check e-mail for photos later this week.
See you at 8AM.
God Bless.
[The Ex]
On Thu, 5/1/08, [The Ex] [last name] <[the ex email]@[email].com> wrote: From: [The Ex] [last name] <[the ex email]@[email].com> Subject: Sunday web cam at 7AM. To: [Custodial Dad’s home email]@[email].com, [Custodial dad email]@[email].com Date: Thursday, May 1, 2008, 2:29 PM
Hello, [Custodial Dad] and Mrs. [last name].
Hope all is well.
Please inform: Did you set up another e-mail account for me to use for [daughter] to web cam?
[daughter] was happy to have 2 -way communication last Sunday through [email] messenger.
I will again use [the ex email]@[email].com, since it is working well.
Will gladly accommodate any “tech-updates” from you guys.
Why don’t we extend the time for the web chat?
[daughter] is awake very early in the morning.
I will be happy to facilitate your web session with her at 7AM Sunday, beginning May 4th. 
She will be delighted!  As it is, she wakes up and we await the set 8AM time for her to connect with you all.
Warm greetings to all.
God Bless.
[The Ex]
--- On Sun, 4/27/08, [The Ex] [last name] <[the ex email]@[email].com> wrote: From: [The Ex] [last name] <[the ex email]@[email].com> Subject: April 27 web cam at 8AM. To: [Custodial Dad’s home email]@[email].com, [Custodial dad email]@[email].com Date: Sunday, April 27, 2008, 6:34 AMHello, [Custodial Dad] and Mrs. [last name].
Hope all is well.
Please inform: Did you set up another e-mail account for me to use for [daughter] to web cam?
Since you saw [daughter] last week through [email] messenger,
I will again use [the ex email]@[email].com.
I am at the computer and will check my email before 8AM.
Please send any updates.
Thanks for your kind cooperation.
We will see you all at 8!
I know you stayed on as long as you could last week.
Today, we’ll try for early mass to keep [daughter]’s activities on schedule.
I will give her the option of web cam for Saturday and Sunday of next week.
Let me know time for possible Saturday. 
We can try to do both days this week.
God Bless.
[The Ex]
--- On Thu, 4/24/08, [The Ex] [last name] <[the ex email]@[email].com> wrote: From: [The Ex] [last name] <[the ex email]@[email].com> Subject: Let’s keep trying. To: “The [last name] [last name]s” <[Custodial Dad’s home email]@[email].com> Date: Thursday, April 24, 2008, 6:02 AM
Hi, Mrs. [last name].
Thanks for all your help.
 Much appreciated.
 I’m glad for your technical skills.
We are using the basic [email] messenger available through my [email] account, [email]@[email].com.
I will gladly do a trial run. 
How is Friday evening-late?  Please text me to confirm [XXX] [XXX]-4665.
[daughter] did want to see all of you guys on the computer.
I do not mind if you want to set up an account for me to access with [daughter] to facilitate
web cam.
Please, let me know what you think is best.
God Bless.
[The Ex]
On Sun, 4/20/08, [The Ex] [last name] <[the ex email]@[email].com> wrote: From: [The Ex] [last name] <[the ex email]@[email].com> Subject: Thank You, Mrs. [last name]! To: “[Custodial Dad] [last name]” <[Custodial dad email]@[email].com> Date: Sunday, April 20, 2008, 1:48 PMHi, Mrs. [last name].
I overheard the kids on the web...  They are so darling!  We are charmed by them!
Thank you for this morning’s photo of  [Custodial Dad].
[daughter] will be delighted to see it!
In May, I will be sending a Mother’s Day package for you from [daughter].
We hope you like it!  Please, let us know when you receive it.
Please take a photo of yourself for [daughter] to have.
As I have shared with you guys on e-mail, we are putting together more “[daughter]’s family” scrapbooks.
We gladly await pictures and any little stories you want to have written under the photos.
There is a way to have the books duplicated. 
I will look into that and will get you a copy when we have it all put together.
I wish you a peaceful and blessed day.
Kindly,
[The Ex]
--- On Sun, 4/13/08, [The Ex] [last name] <[the ex email]@[email].com> wrote: From: [The Ex] [last name] <[the ex email]@[email].com> Subject: Web Cam 4/13/08 To: [Custodial dad email]@[email].com Date: Sunday, April 13, 2008, 10:24 AM
Hi, [Custodial Dad].
[daughter] was glad to be able to chat with the kids and you this morning!
(I overheard your other little Princess and Prince- how cute they are!)
I’m glad you were able to color with her at the PBS kids site.
I thought she’d enjoy “live” web interaction with “Dad” & her favorite Dragon Tales characters. 
Figured the Little Ones could enjoy the colorful pictures and familiar faces, too.
Of course, we can try again before Sunday.
There should be nothing wrong with wed cam set up here.
Clearly, you can guess that I’ve had two professional web consults advise me,
since technology often needs expert verification!
Anyhow, enjoy your day together.  Thanks for taking [daughter]’s second call
We changed our plans to a later mass so you could talk longer today.
Just thought you might be free the 2nd round to get on-line with her.  She was delighted!
God Bless.  Warm regards to Mrs. [last name] and the sweet Little Ones.
We’re off to [city in other state]!
[The Ex]
[The Ex] [last name] <[the ex email]@[email].com> wrote: Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:47:29 -0700 (PDT) From: [The Ex] [last name] <[the ex email]@[email].com> Subject: Artwork for Web Cam As Scheduled for 4/13/08 To: [Custodial dad email]@[email].comHi, [Custodial Dad].
[daughter]’s work is attached.
Let me know if you get the images.
Thanks!
Enjoy.
[The Ex]

[The Ex] [last name] <[the ex email]@[email].com> wrote: Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:52:46 -0700 (PDT) From: [The Ex] [last name] <[the ex email]@[email].com> Subject: Web Cam As Scheduled for 4/13/08 To: [Custodial dad email]@[email].com
Hi, [Custodial Dad].
We are on for web-cam on Sunday morning at 8.
See you then!
Hope your little ones can say hello to [daughter].
Kind regards to Mrs. [last name].
God Bless.
[The Ex]

[The Ex] [last name] <[the ex email]@[email].com> wrote: Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 04:59:37 -0700 (PDT) From: [The Ex] [last name] <[the ex email]@[email].com> Subject: Re: Web Cam As Scheduled for 4/6/08 To: [Custodial Dad] [last name] <[Custodial dad email]@[email].com>Hi, [Custodial Dad].
I understand from your e-mail just now
that you will not be able to web-cam
today at 8AM,
as scheduled with you in [daughter]’s call to you last Sunday(3/30/08).
Let’s just stick to e-mail for future scheduling.  OK?
I can have [daughter] call your cell phone around 8:15AM.
No worries.  [daughter] will understand the change in format.  It’s OK.
For next week(4/13/08), I will have [daughter] available for web cam at 8:00AM on Sunday.
Please let me know by Friday if you will not be available. 
We can plan to have breakfast out instead.
( I’ve told [daughter]... she sends “hugs and kisses” to the [home state] home crew!)
Thanks much.
God Bless.
[The Ex]
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 6:04 AM, [The Ex] [last name] <[the ex email]@[email].com> wrote:Hi, [Custodial Dad].
I am happy we could set up this web-cam session. I think it is a good option.
I’m sure [daughter] will delight in the web-chat(!) this morning at 8AM.
Hope your little guys will be there to say hello to [daughter].
I understand that you were not able to enlarge [daughter]’s artwork and schoolwork I sent you. 
From a tech consult, I understood that digital images would be easier to get and send
(up-loads from phones to computers, etc.).
I will gladly try to e-mail pictures , if you can get those images well,  Let me know.
For now, I will have [daughter] show you her work on the web chat this morning.
I will then follow up with a package or e-mailed samples early this week,
including the packet for next Sunday’s web chat.
[daughter]’s work sent to you is for you to share with Grand-ma and keep.
We will be off to church with [daughter]’s classmates at 8:30AM.
I will have her dressed and ready to go, so you can have as much time on-line until then.
We/You can add/change chat schedules as we need to- as we go.
For now, I think this will be a good time slot.
Kind regards to Mrs. [last name] and your children.
[daughter] will see you at 8!
Enjoy!
[The Ex]
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[Custodial Dad] [last name] <[Custodial dad email]@[email].com> Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:12 AM To: [the ex email]@[email].com Bcc: [Step Mother] <[Step Mother’s email]@[email].com> 
[The Ex],
Thank you, that sounds like a wonderful thing from [daughter] ... as both [Step Mother] and I have stated/written please feel free to call her [Step Mother] not the formal “Mrs. [last name]” after all this will be a lifetime of contact ... or were you referring to my mother (“Inside is a card and photo for Grandma, too”) and as you remember her name would be Mrs Fitton or her preference of: Grandma (as it always has been and the other 40-plus grandchildren and their parents call her)
As soon as YOU can confirm that [daughter] will receive a package at a SPECIFIC address I/we have SEVERAL things for her
Thank you again and I will remind you that my cell phone is always on and IF there is a chance to begin a set schedule of contact (either or both phone/webcam) that would be excellent!
x
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[Custodial Dad] [last name] <[Custodial dad email]@[email].com> Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:57 AM To: [the ex email]@[email].com Bcc: [Step Mother] <[Step Mother’s email]@[email].com>
[The Ex],
We are watching the mail for [daughter]s’ package, I can not wait to see [daughter]s’ earrings; it’s hard to imagine that she has grown so much in the three years that I have not seen her! 
Thank you for allowing [daughter] to call me these past few weeks.  It has been a joy to hear her voice.  Also, whatever evenings [daughter] is available I can make every effort to have the webcam on (with some notice).  I just can not do webcam in the morning (except for Sundays!!!!!) but [daughter] may call at anytime and again I know you understand and you say she understands, but I stress, if I am busy I may answer and ask to call her back or for her to call back and/or I may let it go to voice mail for a message.
Since you have opened the conversation; I’d like to discuss this upcoming summer with you.  Specific to activities for [daughter], I am hoping that there will be an opportunity for [daughter] to visit her home here in [home state].  When you initially relocated to [other state] it was with the understanding that you would be bringing [daughter] to visit The North East (specifically [home state]) often. I am very willing to assist in her transportation to [home state].  I know you are in school but, please let me know when we can begin facilitating such an arrangement. It broke my heart to hear [daughter] say that she missed me, but this feeds my hope that she and I will have a strong and warm-father/daughter-relationship. I think by establishing some sort of visitation now, we can expedite the process that will be ordered by the courts anyway.
Again a few reminders:
My cell phone does not accept multimedia messages (picture texts.)  However if you input my email address instead of my cell phone number, I will receive these pictures, sound bytes, etc.
I will be sending a package to [daughter] I’ll assume that confirmation of a mailing address for her is her Great Grandmothers ‘Jersey Road(Street)’ per you this morning  (Reminder; her Great - Grandmother refused the last package).
Last – I can send a children’s cell phone for [daughter] to have. There can be designated numbers allowing her to call certain people including you and I (maybe even [sibling]?!?), her grandmothers/father and whomever else you’d like to include there. It’s a Firefly (has parental control features) and I would simply add her to our family plan.
Again, I sincerely appreciate your current efforts in allowing [daughter] and I to have contact.
X
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The [last name] [last name]s <[Custodial Dad’s home email]@[email].com> Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:27 PM To: [the ex email]@[email].com Cc: [Custodial dad email]@[email].com
Hello Ms. [last name],
I did receive [daughter]’s present today however I will wait to open it on
Sunday with the presents from the rest of my children.  Thank you
immensely for your thoughtfulness.  I hope that it would be possible
for me to sneak on the telephone and thank [daughter] myself on Sunday very
briefly!
Have a very happy Mother’s day.  This is the day to enjoy the
beautiful and wonderful child(ren) in your life and count each and
every blessing.  Always remember that your actions, words and thoughts
are reflected and mirrored through your child!  Enjoy your beautiful
daughter... it is clear that you and [Custodial Dad] did a wonderful job
with her.  She’s truly a beautiful bright spirited child despite this
whole situation and you should feel very blessed!  I know I feel
blessed having her in my life.
[Step Mother]
PS I will also deliver the card to Mom ([grandma]) sometime before Sunday.
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:31 PM, [The Ex] [last name]
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