:jawdrop: After yet another three week span of not hearing from or about BM, we had a peanut boil at our house of which one of our mutual friends was invited to. Come to find out, BM is living with him at the moment. So, of course, a half hour after everybody was to be at our house the phone rings and it is her. She spends the entire time that she is on the phone with the children prying for information about who is there, what each person is doing, who is talking to who, and trying to get the kids to go up to DH and tell him things she is saying while on the phone with her.

I did slip up one time and tell one of the kids to do something. I caught myself and didn't do it again. The entire day was awesome, but then again, we were on the road all day so.... I got a new pair of shoes today because washing my hands of parenting is going to give me plenty of time to be myself again. Tomorrow, I start getting up in the morning and walking again, cooking healthy things that the kids wouldn't like, and EMROIDERING!!! Shoot, I might even get to pick up a book at some point. How cool would that be? We had a couple of issues today, but DH stepped up.

Okay, here is the deal. BM is non-existent. DH is a man and thus, a card and dinner is sufficient for birthdays. Ever since I came along I have gone all out for his children's birthdays because all they used to get was to pick where he took them out to dinner and a present. No cake, no guests, no games, none of the stuff that makes a birthday complete for a child. I guess my feeling like I need to do this is from my childhood.