Ss13 picks on dd6. Teases her and picks on her to rile her up. Of course it works. But what do you do about it? I try to have a home that creates a good self esteem for my kids but it's hard when ss visits and teases and puts down the kids, esp dd. It has always been important to me for my girls to grow up with a positive body image, good self-esteem and confidence because a lot of girls lack that. Also because I struggled with that too. I haven't heard a lot of comments but dd has told us that ss calls her 'fat' (she's tall & skinny) & 4eyes (when she wears glasses).

So dh picks up ss to tomorrow (sat) and he'll stay a week. Sun, the bios & I go visit my mom for 3 days. Now when I usually go out of town I clean my house so I can return to a clean house. Nothing worse than coming home having to unpack AND clean. This time, however, ss13 will be alone in our house for 3 days while dh works all day. (dh was supposed to have off while i was gone but had to give up he days.) In the past, ss has stayed alone in our home twice. Once for a day and I returned to a normal house. Another time he stayed with bil who is only a year older than ss.

It's been a bit crazy! My fil passed away the beginning of this month and life has been turned upside down since. I've missed this site and reading everyone's blogs. I hope you all have been doing good! But I'm back again to vent. Next weekend my looooong summer with ss starts, so expect me on here more! Anyway, this weekend we had ss13 for FD weekend. I don't know what it is, but when ss is around, dd6 and ds4 fight with each other A LOT more. All last week they played well together and we were all enjoying our summer. This weekend they fought non-stop.

Dh's stepdad passed. He had been sick for a while. He was with mil for 5 years so dh didn't really consider him a stepdad....until now. Whatever. And my stepFIL's kids have shown their true stepkid entitlement issues to my mil. They have been hounding mil for things since his passing. Stepfil has been with mil for 5 years and I barely met his kids this year because they never came around! It was sad really. He always asked to see his kids and grandkids but they rarely came around. When he and mil would try to visit, his kids would rush him out.