Sunday is Cheryl’s 11th birthday and it is her weekend to be with her mom and my kids will be with their dad. She told me yesterday that she wanted to spend the day bowling with her siblings. I told her I thought that could be arranged and that my girls could meet up with her at the bowling alley. She told me today that she wanted me to take her bowling instead of  her mother. I asked her why and she because I would buy pizza and soda and her mother wouldn’t. I explained to her that perhaps the cost of bowling would be a financial hardship for her mother who is single with one income and that I was planning to contribute to the cost so her mother would not have to bear the burden herself. I then suggested that we all go together and Cheryl was happy with that idea. Now I have to talk to her mother and arrange it.