So you guys are going to love this one to add to the book we could all write.
so a coupld of weekends ago dh and I were planning to have a small deck party of about 10-15 friends over. It was our lovely weekend with no kids. Well on Saturday afternoon at about 2pm bm calls and leaves a message on the machine all sweet inviting us to attend sd9 dance recital that evening at 6:30 (our friends are coming over at 7pm). Thanks for the notice right (this is typical of her games). So dh and I decide that he should go to the recital and I will stay home to attend to our guest until he gets home, no big deal. Well at 6pm the phone rings, its ss12, you need to come pick us up becuase mom is being ARRESTED!!
So the story goes, bm was on her way back home to get the kids from being at a friends house drinking, drives her car into a ditch right in front of the police station. Now she is only a couple miles away from home so she gets out of the car and STARTS RUNNING home. Of course the cops pick her up, she says she has to get home because her kids are home alone. They take her back to her house and have ss call his dad.
When my dh gets there the kids are standing on the porch, there are 2 cop cars and an ambulance in the driveway and bm is wailing about how she is going to loose her job. She was actually resisting arrest until my dh told her to get in the police car.
She then told the cops she was going to kill herself so they took her to the hospital and 302 her for the night, of course they let her out the next day because she said she was just upset.
But the story gets even worse!
So dh's parents were on their way to the recital as well, dh calls them and asks if they could keep the kids giving the truma of the evening we didnt want them at our party. Thanks god for grandparents! So the next day at 12:30 we hear from bm's cousin that ss12 has a play to attend at 1pm. There is no way we could go to grandparent's, pick up ss and get him to the play within a 1/2 hour, so we just decide he is going to have to miss it. Well a little later dh goes and picks up kids. SS was acutally the LEAD IN THE PLAY and all his friends were calling him on his cell telling him he ruined the play. The poor kid! Not on ly dows he get to witness his mother get arrested for DUI but he also misses the end of school event. He begged us not to go to school the next day, but dh took him in and they all asked where he was and he told them the truth. Which is suprising because he is alway defending his mom. I still cant figure out why he didnt tell us abou the play sooner, like when he was with us on wednesday!? I do think bm tells him not to tell his dad about school functions so that when he doesnt show she can go around to everyone and say what a terrible father he is.
Oh and if any of you were wondering about timing of all this: Yes the recital was at 6:30, kids had to be there at 5:30, she got DUI at 6pm. I am convinced she was on her way home (LATE)to pick up those kids when her blood level was twice the legal limit!