So I have once again found out that my DH has debt that he has failed to disclose to me. In our 10 year marriage, we have had 3 HUGE blowups around the issue of money and his financial secret-keeping. The last two arguments he has sworn that he had revealed every single last dollar of debt.

So yesterday I got myself all in a tizzy.
This is long and boring and you have my apologies.

You see, there is a pattern DH and I have that really infuriates me. We both work, but I work from home. He does shift work, and when he's not at his paying job he works around our farm as well. I work in the farm office, currently in our home.

As with most step families, there has been a longstanding issue around food. Most has centered around my SS, who is now 17. He was a notoriously picky eater as a child, and we battled through years of whining, crying, refusing to eat, slinking down in his seat, tantrums, harrrumphs, and signs at the table. In the past two years it has *mostly* gotten better, but on occasion the harrumphing and sighs come out again.

So tonight was a holiday dinner for those family stragglers who were out of town or worked on Christmas day. All the SKids were there, SS17, SD23 and SD25.

The SKids had been up to visit their BM earlier in the day, and then came straight to dinner at MIL's.