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Need Advice About Summer Visitation Please

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Ok, so DH is currently going back and forth with BM about summer visitation. I touched on this in my other blog from today. The CO says she is to get the first half of summer vacation, so a block of roughly 5 1/2 weeks. She wants to take SD to Colorado for 3 weeks to visit her family and wants to take SD out of school 4 days early so she has time to go on her own vacation without SD before she has to go back to work.

Anybody else have a ringtone that changes to a sinister tone when BM calls?

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I don't know how it does it but I swear DH's phone gets a different tone when BM calls. We will just be hanging around the house and his phone rings and I just get this feeling that it sounds sinister and BM is calling. I'm not always right but I am right about that more often than is normal.

Is this common for psycho BM's?

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BM had told SD5 that she will pick her up on her birthday next Friday though we are kind of guessing that won't happen since BM works at H&R Block and it is the very tail end of tax season so we are assuming she will be working.

Anyway, I checked BM's twitter today to see if there was anything on there about working next weekend or not and there wasn't but I did see a slide show she posted of pictures of SD with captions about how perfect she was and how she was worth it all and blah blah blah.

Sometimes I feel like I'm training a dog.

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So, we rolled into the house after DD10's guitar lesson and a trip to the grocery story and I was in the kitchen putting groceries away and all of a sudden I hear DSD5 yelling at DD10 telling her she's "so mad at you!!!" So I go to investigate and find DD10 in the bathroom using the toilet and DSD5 yelling at her through the door.

O/T Mother Nature is SUCH a Bitch

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So we are about to close on our new house which is very exciting. The only thing holding up the process is the appraiser has decided the house needs a few repairs before the bank will sign off on it.

He picked out four things to be difficult about. Apparently the water wasn't on when he did the appraisal which is no big deal, two of the showers did not have shower heads installed, the lower back deck does not have a railing and the gorgeous natural log staircase has gaps that are too big and someone could fall through them.

Talk me off the ledge ladies!!!

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So, last weekend MIL informed us that BM would not be picking up SD5 until her birthday, which is April 15th. We were not informed of this beforehand. BM tried to tell DH that she was confused about the schedule but that is a crock of youknowwhat. How do you go 5 weeks without seeing your kid and then claim you were "confused about the schedule"? Also, we are kind of assuming that BM won't actually be picking SD up that day because she works at H&R Block and April 15th is tax day.

Seriously with the underwear again?!?!?!

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So, I was putting a load of laundry in the washer today and happened to notice a pair of SD5's underwear were looking disgusting again.

We just went through this a few months ago and we had to spend a few weeks checking her underwear daily and taking toys away for unacceptable underwear to make sure she was wiping after using the bathroom. We stopped after she went about a week with clean underwear.

Guess What Kids? We're Moving but Someone Else told you

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So, we are in the process of buying a house. We found a house that is almost absolutely perfect and it is within budget. The kids will each have their own room, hell, we will all have our own floor. There is a fourth room for a baby if we decide to have one. It's on two acres out in the woods, fenced in back yard, the only thing it doesn't have is a garage. This house is perfect and the kids will still go to the same school so nothing changes there and they don't have friends in our neighbhorhood now, in fact we have been here two years and I know none of the neighbors.

Why Do I Still Have To Point These Things Out to DH????

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So when I picked my new medication up from the pharmacy on Tuesday I made a few observations. One is that the medication is injectable, comes in pre filled glass syringes, and needs to be refrigerated so it's not as if I can just put it up high where the kids can't get at it. The other is that the retail cost of this medication is $6500 a month.

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