Bad ending to the weekend....
Hey all! I hope your weekend ended better than mine. It was a skids weekend (of course) and due to SD15 springing a honor society Habitat for Humanity she had to go to on Saturday on us on Wednesday, we had already had to cancel plans to go to a car show at a local vineyard. These plans had been made with my parents for weeks. 
Suffice to say, I was pissed, but made the best of the situation by getting a major outdoor project done. This project involved DH having to get topsoil with his truck. Since SD15 said this event was from 9 to 2, we thought we would have plenty of time to get a load, bring it back and unload it.
Nope. SD15 calls at 11 am for DH to go get her. :jawdrop: He still has a cubic yard of dirt in his truck and tells her no, that she was supposed to be there until 2. She starts whining and finally agrees to just go home with one of the other parents and he’ll pick her up there when he can. Personally, if you are going to advertise on FB how you are doing all this volunteer work, you should actually work! Whatever. At least he made her work outside with us instead of sitting around on her e-binky. She tried to play the “I have homework to do” card, but DH has noticed over the past couple of months that her doing homework involves 15% homework and 85% playing on her phone. Go DH! 
Fast forward to yesterday evening. BM comes to pick up the SDs. Due to some recent behavior on BM’s part, I have been video recording all pickups. Silly me, I tried to be subtle about it so the skids wouldn’t see and be all butt hurt. Well, apparently, SD15 noticed. When I went to check the video after, I realized the brat had turned off my video recorder on MY PHONE!!! To say I was pissed doesn’t even begin to describe it. I told DH what happened and the first thing he does is try to find excuses….. the phone timed out, it couldn’t have been her, etc. I showed him the video of her walking by the phone, the phone jiggling and then turning off. He finally had to admit it, but then got mad at me because I was mad at her. Excuse me?! I was not the one touching other peoples stuff. He said he would handle it the next time she is there, but I told him I needed to be there. I don’t trust him to impress on her that she fucked up. Personally, she would lose her phone for the 48 hours she is with us. And until I get a sincere apology (not the crap she says to her sister or dad), I won’t be doing shit for this kid.
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Get a nanny cam instead and
Get a nanny cam instead and tell NO ONE not even DH!
Then put it somewhere they can't reach it, I think some have wifi and can send the video to your email or phone.
I'm going to be doing research on one myself. I am tired of all the drama SD11stb12 is bringing, so I'm going to be putting one in the bedroom where she likes to tell my BD10 all sorts of things.
ETA: They are suppose to dress in the bathroom, so that shouldn't be caught on camera.
Nope. I'm just going to be
Nope. I'm just going to be obvious from now on and if they don't like it, tough shit! This has nothing to do with them and they need to stay out of it.
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I'm recording pickups because
I'm recording pickups because a couple of months ago, she walked into our house univited (because SD15 had been running a fever and she had to hug her "baby") and wouldn't leave when we told her to get out. We practically had to throw her out. She's been served a no-trespass notice that she is not to even open the door (we have a glass front door). I'm only recording this so we have proof if she violates the notice. I don't want it to turn into a "he said, she said" kind of thing if it gets to that. Otherwise, I have nothing to do with her. I just refuse to allow her to violate my home.
But you are right. Next time, I'm going anyway. Let him deal with the fallout of a child who won't keep him informed.
The situation was this. When
The situation was this. When we got SD15 on Friday, she was fine. By Saturday night, she was acting a little out of sorts and had a low grade fever. By the next day, the fever was still there and she was really tired. No big deal. But she said she wanted to go home, so we actually did call BM to come get them early if she wanted. We are not talking about a child on the verge of death and she had NO RIGHT to burst in and in fact had been told prior that she was not invited in. This is a woman who won't even let DH come nto her foyer to help his skids bring stuff out, so we are simply holding her to standards she initiated.
Yes, we do have security cameras already and I think using those is a good idea. That way, they can't be turned off short of unplugging them and I'll be watching to make sure that doesn't happen. And I agree he should talk to her, but I don't think he will. I think he feels that it would somehow violate the CO about talking negatively about the other parent (not that it stops her).
That's exactly what it was.
That's exactly what it was. And we keep going back and forth on whether to lock the glass door. On one hand, we want to keep her out. On the other, we want to give her enough rope to hang herself. It depends on our mood! }:)