So..as we always do, every summer we rent a cabin in some remote place and take the kids out for a good old fashioned family vacation...and every year I say.."Never Again".

This year was the icing on the cake though... both my BS13 and SS8.5 drove me insane. They fought constantly and each of them have their own issues. I'm on a step parenting site however, so I'm just going to talk about how much SS annoyed me... and one of the reasons for only sharing the info about my SS is because it annoys me the most... and WHY does it annoy me the most? Because he's my stepson and I can't do a thing about it. At least with my BioSon I can give him consequences... (Just thought I'd preface my blog with this in case anyone thought I was on the attack)

So... from the second we left for our 10 hour drive SS8.5 was whiny. We stopped to get them breakfast for the ride in the am... he had a bacon and egg sandwich.. a half hour later he was crying because he was starving. This seemed to be the theme of our entire holiday. Lunches consisted of 2 burgers with all the fixens with chips...or 3 smokies with the entire big bun and everything....followed half hour later with "I'm starving"... On our last day we stopped at a 'fancier' place for breakfast where Daddy dearest let him order an 8 egg omlette with potatoes and fruit..followed with a side plate of more potatoes and toast. He is 8! My DH and I have talked a lot about SS's food intake and his weight... DH and BM don't have a problem...think it's cute... so they are to blame...not SS....but it's still friggen annoying...

There were two other families staying at the same Cabin place we were staying at. There were lots of kids of all ages... one night they were playing hide and seek... SS was always IT because he can't run..or refuses to... so after an hour or so I hear SS just freaking out at one of the kids...screaming, yelling, crying, snot flying... because the kid is hiding too hard and SS can't catch him. So the kids stopped playing with our kids for the rest of the holiday because they thought SS was a baby...and my BS was mortified.

He was lippy with me the entire time, defiant, hardly listened to a thing I said. I tried to have a heart-to-heart with DH to tell him that I think insolence is unacceptable and that kids should respect their elders..DH's response "It's different times now then when we were kids"... huh? So now it's ok for kids to be disrespectful?! My DH and people like him are the problem with kids these days... NOT the kids...

And on another note...because I can't stop thinking about it... my BS and I went for a hike in the woods he says "Mom, can I tell you something without you getting upset with me?"...I say "Yes, go ahead", he replies "I don't think DH is very intelligent about things".. anyways..you don't need to hear the rest of the story..but I didn't tell him he was wrong... my son is intellectually and academically gifted, he also suffers from OCD and Generalized Anxiety... he is not wrong.. so I just said "I didn't marry him because he was a genius"..but people it got me thinking...so why did I marry him? Hmmm... I love him...but frig...now I can't stop thinking about what my son said and he's RIGHT!

Ok... just needed to vent a little... having a crappy day and actually glad to be back at work away from the drama!!