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Baseball Drama Again

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Submitted by mndblwn on Mon, 04/29/2013 - 11:19am

Stepson wanted to play baseball again this year. Dh and I signed him up thinking that BM would come to her senses. Last year skid missed 3 games which were all during her scheduled visits. This year he misses 5 out of the 10 games due to her visitation. She won't switch time with us claiming that skid has church and family activities even though she has known since March that skid was in baseball. Skid has practice thursday night so we gave her the option of having him miss and she picks up normal time or he goes and she picks him up later at practice.

Money Money Money

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Submitted by mndblwn on Mon, 03/25/2013 - 6:04pm

BM has no money to live on her own, provide medical insurance for skid or pay medical bills to us or to facilities but she is able to drive skid 4 hours to california and go to the san diego zoo for a whole weekend? A whole weekend in california means gas, motel, food and activites!! what a joke. While DH and I pay $600 a month for family insurance and OWN our home and pay medical bills in FULL. It makes me sick

SS not wearing underwear

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Submitted by mndblwn on Mon, 03/25/2013 - 5:59pm

Are DH and I being stupid? SS8 doesn't want to wear underwear sometimes. When he is with us he knows he needs to but there are times when he sneaks not wearing them. He came home last weekend from BM's house not wearing any underwear. He picked out Hanes boxer briefs at Walmart for his underwear not instead of the character tighty whiteys. We feel kids should be wearing underwear. Once he gets into high school I guess whatever but before that we think they should be worn. AND definitely not left at BM's house.

Is it bad...

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Submitted by mndblwn on Mon, 03/18/2013 - 8:49pm

to feel obligated to take care of skids when you really don't like them around the house to even look at them? DH loves his son and he is with us 62% of the time. SS is really hard to deal with when coming back from BM's or in general. SS has turned into a liar, excepts to be waited on hand and foot, complains all the time and backtalks DH big time. At BM's house the whole world revolves around SS. At our house there is DH, BD and I along with SS living there. He is 8 and can't pull his chair in? Can't help bring groceries in? Can't get other people napkins or utensils?

O/T home remedies for cough

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Submitted by mndblwn on Mon, 03/18/2013 - 8:44pm

ss8 has a cough for like ever. BM took him to doctor twice in one month for this. He was put on two different antibiotics and it didn't help. We went to the lake for 2 hours this weekend and the cough came back with vengence. We don't think the cough is bacterial so really if it's viral there is nothing but to wait its course. we have tried tea with honey, humidifier, vicks, cough medicine and chicken noodle soup.

What else can we try? ss has eczema and allergy to peanuts to the internet says asthma. dh has asthma so we are getting ss tested next week>?? any other ideas?

When To Quit Trying with BM

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Submitted by mndblwn on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 7:05pm

DH and I are basically primary parents of ss8. BM tries to squeeze the the cracks of the CO any way she can. For her weekends it states that she will pick up ss after school and bring him back to an agreed upon location in our county. Well she says that it doesn't give a specific time after school so she ALWAYS comes at 6pm at night to drive 3.5 hours home with ss. She always tells us if we are there then the law will be violated. We know that pleasing her of this 6pm keeps the police away from our house and hours upon hours of pointless emails to her.

OMG it's a cough

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Submitted by mndblwn on Tue, 02/12/2013 - 2:55pm

ss has been to the doctor twice in one month and put on antibiotics each time with BM. she won't listen to us that it wont help and he is going to different climates and he needs a humidifier and vicks and over the counter medicine instead. BM won't even put down DH name to call the doctor to ask why. antibiotics doesnt cure a virus. bm told dh he is a reckless self destructive piece of shit basically and he just lets his kid suffer and she did us a favor by taking him to the doctor. thank god i have the insurance coverage for her to use because she doesn't care shit!

Who can claim? What are the penalties?

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Submitted by mndblwn on Wed, 01/30/2013 - 8:26pm

DH has ss 60% of the year. The IRS website say that to determine who can claim child as deduction the parent who has the child more nights in the year gets the deduction. If that is even then it's the parent who makes the most money in the year. Clearly like I started out with DH has his son more. In my eyes we get to claim him. BM tells us that the IRS can sort it out. I take that as she is also going to claim the boy. How does this all work out and what are the penalties? How does the IRS choose?

Guidelines for Emails and Texts..Need Inputs

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Submitted by mndblwn on Mon, 01/21/2013 - 4:53pm

DH and I want to give BM some guidelines when emailing or texting us. Some background is that BM always seems to insult DH or pull the "Im mother of the year and you suck" in all of her emails and texts. She can't just make me them short and to the point. So we wanted to tell BM what we will except and then ignore.

Dreading SS to return home each week

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Submitted by mndblwn on Mon, 01/21/2013 - 8:00am

SS spends all but one weekend a month with BM. DH and I think it's better when he is away because for the most part it's quiet from BM. These past two weeks has always been something from her. It's almost like she feels that if she doesn't email or text DH that he will forget about her or that DH is actually living his life finally. The first week it was about baptism and how DH scares skid and blah blah blah. This week it's that DH neglects the cough that ss has and now it's an upper respiratory infection.

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