team's activities. She stated that she would take all three children to the soccer matches. The mother testified that the father rarely attended the soccer matches.
The mother stated that she took care of the children's educational needs. She testified that she was a room mother at the children's school, helping with parties for the children's classes and relieving the teachers on their lunch hour. The mother stated that she took care of the children's health needs. She testified that she took care of the children when they were sick and that she took the children to their doctor and dentist appointments. The mother stated that some of the children had allergic reactions to certain medication but that the father was confused as to which ones had the allergieswhen he took them on a trip to Baton Rouge after she filed for a divorce.
The mother testified that in May 2001 Patrick Wittenbrink, a college baseball player, moved into the family home. She stated that Wittenbrink paid her $300 per month in rent, which she deposited in the couple's joint checking account. She said that Wittenbrink helped the older son with baseball and that when Wittenbrink moved in she was planning on returning to school and believed that she would need help with the children.
The mother testified that the father was verbally and physically abusive. The mother stated that on one occasion a few years before the trial in this matter, the father had pushed the mother against a door and choked her because a family pet