I'm so frustrated that I still can't communicate with SS6. I know he has some special needs, but gosh I wish they were improving faster than this!!

I was watching SS yesterday and BM came to pick him up. She asks if he had a coat (in Phoenix it's really a 50/50 shot if he wore a coat to our house). I have no idea since I didn't pick him up.

We ask him "Did you have a coat?" He says "Yes" and runs off to his room to get it. 2 minutes later he wanders back without a coat. "SS, did you have a coat?" "No."

My DH has always been good about dealing with BM, except when it comes to having SS6 more than our share of the time. I can't tell you the number of weekends he has just agreed to keep SS6 when it was her weekend because of one of her lame excuses.

Typically we're supposed to have SS6 every weekday from 3:30-8:30 and the 2nd, 4th and 5th weekends. Last semester she had a sob story about how she just had too much homework to do and we needed to keep him another weekend a month too. I was pretty upset about it, but didn't say anything.

Hey all-

I've been a lurker for a good long while now, but I had to share this one.

We have finally found the perfect food arrangement for SS6! He has always been a picky eater and we've gone back and forth between making him eat something and setting a timer and letting him go hungry if he doesn't eat.

My DH handles all the issues with CS. We keep our finances separate and each have our own checking account, but we file joint taxes.

If BM were to take us back to court would my income be figured in to his CS calculation? I know that everything differs by state, but what is the norm there? I just don't know.

Thanks!