Dear Morgan

Dear Morgan,

I love you.

I am sorry things are the way that they are right now. It's too bad nobody was able to get your passport on time, and that you can't come for Christmas. Had that happened, things would be very different now.

Please understand that I do not understand how your Dad and C's bank takes weeks on end to cash checks from France, when everybody else I have sent checks to had them clear within a week.

I am sorry that you do not want to give things a try.

But I am going to have to insist.

I never wanted or agreed to your living permanently in Wisconsin.

I never said you got to decide where you live. I said you would have a say in the matter. But there is a difference between having a say and deciding. You need to understand that just because you have the right to an opinion, doesn’t mean you have the right to decide. I am still your parent. It isn’t my fault that agreements haven’t been kept. I parented you alone for the first 12 and ¾ years of your life and I am now being slapped in the face. It isn’t fair and it isn’t right.

You have a family life in Wisconsin that you never had with me. I understand and appreciate that. However, my life is different now, and you are going to have to give it a chance.

I have a right to have you live with me. I am going to exercise that right. This is not a punishment, and I am sorry if you take it that way. I am not the bad guy. I am being denied my right to spend time with you and I am not going to allow that right to be denied. I have the right to parent you, too, and since nobody has seen clear to keeping his or her end of the agreement, I am not going to continue keeping mine.

I will be back living in the US by February, and will purchase a plane ticket for you to come back and live with me, pursuant to my divorce agreement with your Dad.

I am asking one thing of you. That you give it a try with us living as a family with Fabrice. When I was a single Mom, things were different. It was harder for me, and our relationship was not always what it could be. Nothing was always as it should have been. But I did my best, and I did it myself.

Now things are different. You are going to have to give it a try. I am asking you to do so with an open mind.

If, after a few months, things are not as they should be, then, and only then, will I reconsider your living in Wisconsin.

I will contact you later on to let you know when your flight back to my home is.

It's not the end of the world to have to live with your mother who has always loved you, cared for you, taken care of you, wand tried her damndest to do what is best for you. You will still sleep at night, get up, eat breakfast, brush your teeth, go to school, have friends and activities, love both of your parents, and live your life.

I love you.

Love,
Yo Momma