I asked DH yesterday if he could send SS18 to his country with his family, while we wait for the jobcorp people to process his paperwork, which they stated could take a month. He said he couldn’t do that to his sister, because she is caring for his mom. His other sister works, his brothers have their homes full etc. I told DH that it was interesting because earlier this year when I told him I didn’t want to stay with SS while he went trucking, he told me “it’s not like you have to do anything for him!” So it’s not like his sister has to anything for him….

Ss23 wanted me to be the first to know the baby's sex. Because he has a history of being so manipulative, as much as I want to believe this means something more than what it is, I mostly don’t. I think Ss is finding out now that the only person in his life who is doing well enough to help and in his mind should/would want to help is me. His mom is already mentally gone from what I hear (says demons speak to her, thinks human are AI) and DH was never the man to head birthday parties or anything of the sort. 

If you have Disney channel, watch the episode titled Horse Girl in Big City Greens. I think this is about stepmothers, not horses. 
DD8 was watching it, and I thought it was a pretty accurate picture of stepkids in the beginning. 

SS23 reached out to me yesterday morning asking if he could come over. SS as you all remember, moved out last year and got his girlfriend pregnant as I knew he would. Since he left, he came over about 3 times. Once in October to ask us to buy an iphone because he says his broke, once for Thanksgiving, and once after Christmas to exchange gifts. So I knew he wanted something.