While I was once a very active member here, that was in some of our darkest years. Thankfully, we've been able to reconcile our broken relationships with my SS & SD & continue to grow closer & closer to them again.

That said, their relationships with BM are crumbling. She's a pill addict & has been for nearly 8 years, as far as we're aware. I know that years before that, toward the end of her marriage with DH, she was using cocaine.

I'm not sure if anyone here knows the answer to this, but my SS is trying to get things situated to start classes at a business college this year.

Anyone familiar with our situation knows that is something HUGE for him. He's muddling through this registration a piece at a time. He's taken the placement test. He has a class schedule. The only hang-up he has with the process at this point is getting his FAFSA filed.

It's no secret, BM is a freaking nut. She's a stay-home-work-the-system yahoo, completely off her trolley.

We live in the boonies. Every year, this time of year, we have to place a service call on our phone lines/box.

Apparently, when it gets cold & wet outside, the mice find phone boxes the place to go & nest.

So, when we start hearing the familiar irritating non-stop "buzzzzzzzzzzz...." on our landline, we call for service.

I placed this call this morning. Instead of the usual "Take a corded phone across the field to your phone box & plug it in to see if it works...." speal, I get a pitch (or rather a PUSH) for this Voice Link service.

She was the caretaker 4% of the time & was pulling $8000. Now that custody is 50/50, clearly she'll need $88,969/month to be able to furnish their son with a more acceptable standard of living. :?

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