At her house today she shows me video of her and her co-workers in a silly skit for some work assembly. This video went on for several minutes. She seemed to want my praise, like a little kid in a pageant. I politely watch and nod and smile. Do any of you have this kind of BM?

SS13 (whom I adore) starts figuring out dinner is nearly ready. He hates that we insist he eat some nutritious things like vegetables and the occasional broiled protein vs. the all pizza diet he'd love to have.

So he's gearing up to throw a good preventative tantrum. "What are we having for dinner!!?" he squeals at a pitch only dogs can hear. DH looks at me, expecting me to answer him and console him. I just keep fixing dinner. "WHAT are we having for dinner??!!" he tries again, this time the neighborhood dogs start covering their ears, the pitch has gotten so high.

SD15 is so nasty to me that it depressed me all week. I blogged about it here and thank you for all your kind comments and support. I realized I was getting in dangerous territory with my depressed feeings.

Last night I told DH I couldn't take it any more and had to make some changes. Beginning with I would not be home for tonight's dropoff. I usually make a family meal for Friday nights and I told him I just couldn't go through one more of those where she chatters her head off and subtly and not so subtly makes sure I'm excluded from the entire dinner conversation.

Original thread is here: http://www.steptalk.org/node/193397

When the weekend was over and SD15 was on the plane back to us, DH and his mom caught up on the phone. First thing out of Mom's mouth was, "SD15name said 'thank you' every single time! and she seemed for the first time to be aware that people were spending on her and doing for her!"

My DH then told his own mom, "ChiefGrownup gets the credit for all that!"

Are there dancing balloons and fireworks I could throw in the post right here???!