He did let the kids into the house when he got home then he came to find me. As the nail salon I use is only a mile away from my house and he drove past it on the way home and saw my truck, it apparently did not take a genius to locate me in the coffee shop, sipping coffee and watching CNN on their TV. I truly thought he would start another argument but instead he sat down at the table and apologized.

His obnoxious behavior and statement last night was due to extreme mortification at how his kids had acted and apparently my bringing the behavior up after the company left rubbed salt into an open bleeding wound. One that he swears he recognizes, and knows that he is 50% responsible for making. The other half he is blaming on the skids BM as she also helped turn them into obnoxious monsters. But he apologized several times that he was not upset at me and does not think I nag, and listed several ways he knows I help with the kids. In hindsight he thought it was funny I made them walk to school. His first thought this morning was they would be late and he was trying to prevent them from missing school. He also admitted his father had made him walk to school once and he had learned his lesson to not miss the bus from that episode.

So all is good, right? No fighting, no yelling. We get into our vehicles and drive home. I went straight home, he stopped to get a pack of smokes... then come home. He walked in on Skid#1 cussing me out for shutting off her phone. Called me a F***ing B**ch and he heard it. His back hand is fast. Caught her mouth and she dropped the phone she was waving at me. He stomped on it and it now has 3 pieces, none connected. Skid#1 ran for her room and slammed the door. Skids #2,#3 ran like hell to get out of dads way while he was on the war path. While skid#4 mentioned that what dad had overheard was nothing compared to what skid#1 had said on the way to school... or on the ride home. (Skid#4 I used to think was sneaky. That he would tattle on others to deflect attention from himself, I am starting now to think no he just has diarrhea of the mouth and constipation of the brain. He does not think before he speaks.)

All four skids got a ride home, they did not walk, with skid#1s new boyfriend (he of the tongue and neck incident last night). Only they did not go straight home as they thought I would be there so they went to this kids house, whose parents my DH does not know and hung out for an hour or so, so I would think they walked home. He dropped them off 2 blocks away so I would not hear the car.

DH had to give himself a time out. He turned red then purple and was shaking. He went for a walk to calm down before he killed them. When he got home he grounded all four to their rooms, collected cell phones and electronic games and left. He was headed to go talk to his dad. Apparently he felt the need for professional tutoring in discipline without causing death this evening, so he went to a pro. FIL and DH got home about an hour and a half ago. They are currently outside, smoking cigars. Skid#1 lost her bedroom door. Her grandfather jerked it off the hinges. Per him he is cutting it up for fire wood since by the time she earns it back she will have already moved out.

Each kid is grounded both for behaviors last night as well as their getting a ride home, going to a strangers house, being deceitful and lying by omission. Skid#1 is also grounded for cussing me out.
DH is going to have to write me a list of what they are allowed to do, that is going to be shorter than what he listed off that they were not allowed to do. FIL is spending the night. He is waking the skids tomorrow morning to ensure they get to school on time. I think by 6am tomorrow morning they are going to wish all they had to worry about was walking to school.