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Dealing with the inevitable jealousy - daughter travelling, stepkids never have.

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Submitted by stepmom31 on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 11:52am

My daughter (age1) is going to be travelling to my home country with MIL. It's also DH's home country and the in-laws' home country, but I only recently moved here to get married to DH, and they have been here since DH was 12.

SD got her FB back...

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Submitted by stepmom31 on Wed, 03/09/2011 - 7:39am

SD12 got her FB back, one month before a very major exam, which she pretty much failed last year and is struggling to get on top of the school work.

Way to go BM.

She also changed her info from "Single" to "Married". What's up with that?

DH emailed some practice tests we had planned to do with them over the weekend, but couldn't because BM kept the kids. I'm just waiting to see if, since she has computer time to go on FB, if she actually bothers to do the test during this week.

Waiting on Skids to arrive... are we actually going camping?

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Submitted by stepmom31 on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 7:04am

So we are planning to take the kids camping today. Give them an experience of the real outdoors for just one night to see how they handle it. DH & I (even with my pregnant self) can really rough it, but his kids are softies. They've camped out only in the backyard so far.

Anyway, I'm sitting around waiting on them to arrive. On Thur, DH asked BM to drop them off early on Fri. BM said she'll try, SD gets out of school at such time, traffic is such and such, but hey, she said she'd try. All a big lie.

O/T Doing some Rough Math

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Submitted by stepmom31 on Wed, 02/23/2011 - 9:51am

Guess what the Earned Income Credit is if you choose to work for just $16500 a year and have 2 qualifying children? $5000!

So if BM essentially works for $16500, pays no taxes, maybe $1000 SocSec & Medicare, gets $5000 EIC & $2000 Child Tax Credit PLUS more back on her tax refund, collects CS of about $12500, low income housing, free lunches for kids, Medicare for herself. Total = $35,000 annually for 3 people minus 2 on the weekends

This Weekend - 2 things

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Submitted by stepmom31 on Mon, 02/21/2011 - 2:02pm

1) So SS forgot his medication in the car when BM dropped him off. When he realized this he started to go on and on about how he wish he had phone, that this was an emergency and he needed to contact his mom. I do not call BM - not ever, I called DH, who was at work, and told him to call her and tell her what happened, and he did.

Later in the weekend, DH managed to discover that SD had her cellphone and was instructed to keep it a secret! So, when SS forgot his medication, she never even tried to contact BM.

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