I have a friend who is a childfree stepmom with a 19 year old SD (she met her at about 13). She works with children for a living. Her husband is in his late 40s and she's in her 30s. The BM is a piece of work, she and SD are American citizens but ran off to another country instead of divorcing and the custody battle was brutal. SD is now going to college in the US (where her dad lives).

My DH's main FB pictures were of him and SD and were 8 year old pictures, SD14 was 6 in the pictures. It bothered me after a while because even someone who isn't very interested in FB still should have a recent-ish picture.  We got married, had two kids, and his pictures were still just him and SD. 

A while ago I mentioned that they were old and he should update them because he's recently become more active because of work. It's all wholesome stuff, I'm not concerned about that. 

Birthday season is almost over...

This past weekend was MILs birthday. She's a bit of a drama queen but she's alright. 

We planned to do a wine an charcuterie party for her. The plan was to hang out at my nice SILs house for the afternoon but leave at about 7 so we wouldn't throw off our kids' routine.

My DH has a shiney new spine for dealing with his family so I wasn't too worried about drama. 

Ok strap in, this is the start of some DRAMA. I fully expect this issue to continue for at least a couple months.

My SIL is getting married. I haven't even wrote about this particular SIL before (I have so damn many of them) she is from my FILs second marriage (DH, meddlesome SIL and another nice SIL are  from his third) and I have met her only twice. She's actually the nicest of my SILs and seems to be FILs favorite. She lives in Spain and the wedding will be there. I guess I'll call her Spanish SIL.