And Poly comes home

[tamidon]

Mark got called to Atlanta(on 12 hours notice,requiring the 4AM drive to Logan..grrr) on wed morning so I thought I'ld ask Jesse to come on over, I knew he had thursday off. He just left. The kids dealt fine. When it comes to the poly stuff, I figured I would just let them know in advance he'ld be here so they wouldn't be surprised, but other than that didn't have a "Conversation" on the topic. If I act like it's perfectly normal they will think it is, if I give them a talk about how normal and OK it is I think they'ld question it. We went to the IMAX animation 3D movie(which was great) and then lunch(kids are on vacation this week) He dealt great, the kids love him, especially Adira, and he seemed fine with being brought into the family life. If you're gonna be apart of my life, well, this is my life. So far, so good.

Comments

[catya.livejournal.com]

it IS perfectly normal :)

When we were at Rites of Spring last year I led a poly discussion thing - i had to explain to Zach what i was talking about and why.

He was pretty baffled by the idea that there are people out there who only love one person at a time. :)

[slfisher.livejournal.com]

I guess my only question would be whether you were sure the kids knew that this was ok with Mark and that you weren't sneaking Jesse in with Mark being gone.

But on the whole, yes, I think kids are a lot cooler about such things than most people give them credit for, and if they have issues at all, it's from societal pressure.

I have a friend with his own plane who visits periodically, and Maggie has met him, though I don't have him come on weekends when I have her (as much because of concern about what her dad might do as anything), and every time she sees a small plane overhead, she exclaims, "Mommy! Maybe that's your friend Ed!