I love my DH.

He has come so far from the Disney Dad he used to be. He is up at the plate, parenting his kids 99% of the time. (There is about 1% of Disney Dad left in him.)
Last evening skid2 and skid3 had crap going on at school. One had a band performance the other had an art “exhibit” aka open house for all parents to come in and ooh and ahh over the ‘art’ their high schooler has created… some was really good. Others, let’s just say I thought they had supplemented the supply of art by raiding the walls at the local elementary school.

So as we are wandering the halls of the school seeing the art before the band performance who do we bump into: “Kelly” her step mother and her father. Yes, apparently Kelly speaks to her step mother in the same tone even with her dad around.
Stepmom and I are talking, ‘Kelly’ keeps interrupting. Dads are kind of chit chatting between themselves (both cubs fans apparently). Kelly’s step mother was doing a good job of ignoring the kid. Right up until the kid told her “I am talking to you! Shut up and listen to me!”

DH then looked her father in the eyes and told him: “You will be divorced in a year.” Then he told Kelly “If any of my kids spoke to my wife like that, I would knock them through the closest wall. Be careful kid- the one closet to you is brick and your dad does not look happy.”

DH and I walked away with skids, step mom hesitated then told her husband to “Deal with your spawn, I am done.” And walked away with us - joining DH me and our (s)kids on the remaining tour of the school.

Yep, she called the kid SPAWN in front of her face and dead to her father. She had told me she was lurking here and reading considering the use of that word: I would say she is finding a lot she relates too! I think she needs to make an account and post! So I can find out what happened last night after they left!!