Well it started off with a date screw up by SO. He kept thinking Tuesday was the 4th of July and therefore my son's birthday. I knew he was asking BM if he could have his kids after summer camp the day before the 4th and keep them and take them to summer camp the day after. BM said sure that's fine. When he repeated to me again that the 4th was Tuesday I let him know that no the 4th is Wednesday. He gets that oh shit look and I ask what he says he didn't specify dates with BM just Tuesday till the day after the 4th. Okay so not a big deal explain the goof and if she's cool with the extra day no problem for me he did and she was okay with it. we went on to get the kids from summer camp Monday afternoon and she's there waiting in her van because "if they see me they will cry so much I'd just have to take them." So we go in and get them and they were just tickled to see us and showed me around there summer camp (it's the same daycare they've gone to just the summer program has field trips)he then realized that if he was keeping them till Thursday it'd be stupid to return them and just get them back the next day for his weekend so asked to just keep them for the whole week. BM was over the moon with joy over "that would be so awesome to get rid of them for a change!" (she dumps them on her brother most days anyway.) and when she realized what she said we got "I just ment I could go into work an hour early and if i had them summer camp isn't open that early" okay we'll pretend we believe that.

I worked all week SO lost his newest job while we were on vacation (whole lot of bullshit behind that butt he at least gets unemployment again)and his car is dead so he had all 4 kids to contend with a few times (my youngest goes to camp 2 days a week and his went Tuesday and Friday) no car and we're broke. He did dig out cleanup and fix may 5 year old plastic kiddie pool and my kiddos cleaned the whole house then helped SO with the yard for my son's birthday party and we all walked to our traditional spot to hang with my friends and their families and SO got to meet them all and we had a great time.
But gwad the little ones have so gotten on my nerves, most is just their 5 and 6 I already did my time with 5 and 6 year old's and I was glad when it was over and mine could go with a little (not a lot) less supervision. These kids never hear the word No at BM's (she texts some dumb crap the other day and when she went on about how if her kids are crying at summer camp when she gets their half sister she's taking them she will not tell crying children no and SO told her not telling them NO is the problem and why she can't control them. She shut up after that.
Other than that their grammar is terrible and if I hear shed used as the word in place of shade again I may scream, came instead of come, and won't not, or "we don't want no" oh it just makes me crazy! mispronounced words to some extent I get because they are young I correct them every single time on both accounts my parents and grandparents did the same so I did to my own and well to most children regardless of who's they are. SO actually snapped at me about it in front of the kids and I fired back "would you rather they sound uneducated and people can't understand what they say or mean because they didn't get told the correct use of their only language?" I'm not rude just tell them the correct word or phrase and ask them to repeat it back correctly and move on. He's since also started to correct them and had his now 1st grader and kindergartener practicing writing their names (his dd does okay just messy but his ds has no clue how to write any letter but A)but in 1 week I now have his dd saying yellow correctly putting on her own shoes both dress themselves and remember to use the bathroom before bed and go brush their teeth after breakfast.
Both kids have told me their mom just ignores them their grandparents hate them, his ds desperately wants hugs from EVERYONE including people he's never met when they come over, and every time anyone of us leaves or comes back you can so see in a week how ignored they are at their mom's they still ask when they go home but aren't doing it because they want to but because they still have a hard time understanding days weekends and weeks. Only time they throw a fit about wanting BM is if they get in trouble because "mommy's not so mean to spank us, or put us away" (away is what they call time out apparently) SO's only had to swat them each once or twice for tantrums and biting or hurting each other on purpose,
It's been a long week I'm looking forward to Monday when they go back but I also don't want these poor kids to have to go, be ignored and dumped off and told they are hated.