Well my two sd's have swine flu and this is our Wednesday and weekend for visitation. BM is letting dh decide whether to take visitation. WTF??? Why for any reason would you send your child sick with the swine flu to infect another household. DH came home and told me yesterday. I said absolutely not, they could not come for at least 6 days! My 2 oldest bc are high risk with underlying health conditions and I don't want to take any chances. DH called bm back and told her we would not be picking the girls up for Wednesday or the weekend visitation.

I know life gets crazy...but I was wondering how many of your families sit down and eat together as a family daily? At our home we do everyday. I even shut the TV off because the girls, especially my oldest bd likes to watch it. We make that our daily family time, we talk with the girls, find out about their day, and just laugh and joke too. The girls really seem to like it. My sd's also comment that we take time like that with them, bm doesn't sit with the kids and eat with them, they say bm doesn't really interact with them that much, you can see that they really desire that.

Vickmeister got me to thinking....that is almost scary in itself!!! My DH has kept things from his previous marriage for my sd's when they get older, i.e. wedding video, bouquet from wedding and so on. Sometimes it creeps me out that those things are in my home, mind you they are boxed up in the basement, but what for? What are my sd's going to do with some of those things? I have respected my DH wishes but at times I really wonder what the purpose is behind keeping those things, BM obviously didn't want them, why do we have to be the keeper of those things?

When is a child too old to refer to their parents as Mommy and Daddy? My sd's are 10 and 12 and everytime they call dh daddy. I think that they are getting older and that is kind of childish for their ages. SD 10 writes things like in love with daddy, is that something that is appropriate? and it is always daddy daddy daddy. It is really getting annoying.She also responds with a real snippy tone, dh thinks it is funny, I think it is plain disrespectful and bd's are called out on it by myself and dh when they use that tone.