I was careful to not act too happy but to be solemn and supportive.

DP and I spent HOT morning taking care of house stuff. SD11 had a friend over (who I like). Around 11:30 SD11 starts complaining that she isn't At the pool yet. Snotty like. DP tells her that if she's bored to go clean up her room. Of course that cannot happen since her friend is there. She talks back hard to DP, I say to him..."princess" and walk away. Regretted that but it got him moving.

SDs arrived after a space of 8 lovely days.

* SD11 again states she's not hungry after dinner is served. Cover is now done making anything whatsoever with SD11 in mind.

* SD9 is filthy. Head to toe. Whatever. The only thing is I had her wash her face after she sat down to dinner because it was so gross. I engaged so I could eat. She did do It with no questions though which was nice.

* they went nuts loud after dinner. I cleaned up what I needed to get leftovers ready for my lunch and went out to the front deck to get away.

This morning running late again because DP can't get SD9 out of bed. He tells me to 'not make this into an issue.'

Oh really! ''DP the same thing happened last weekend. I am not going to schede my day around whenever SD9 gets out of bed. I have things to do. I have two days off a week (he has a more flexible schedule) and this is my ONE day to get this done. I want tomorrow off to really relax. Do you get it?!"
Somewhere in there DP said "stop judging me" and it took all my effort to not react by saying YES I AM!

DP got SD9 out of bed and into car.

Most of the weekend was a blessed disengagement period.
I know DP noticed, but I had a ton of things to do myself, and a friend of mine was visiting Sunday afternoon.

The only thing I did was prep strawberries for me and SD9 because I like them too.
Had SD9 eat a couple cherries...so she's doing well with fruits and more veggies and she actually likes trying new things even though she doesn't always like them. Cherries are a good add.