BM texted SO Saturday afternoon to say that she would not be dropping SD off Sunday and that SO could pick her up at 4 and spend an hour and half with her before her softball games (double header), if he wanted to. The reason for this was because SD was getting baptized at church and going to a lunch afterwards. SO and I were both a little shocked, as this was the first we had heard of this. According to BM, SD has been asking to be baptized for a while - a little surprising since she has only ever mentioned going to church with her GBM a couple of times.

Now, SO and I are not churchgoers and we don't care so much that SD has been indoctrinated. However, we do care that we would find out about something like this the day before. She had obviously known about it for a while because some of her family members arranged to be in town for it. BM's "rule" is that if we need to make a change of plans, we must let her know a week in advance. She is the biggest hypocrite I have ever known. Also, why not schedule the baptism on a Sunday when SD doesn't have two softball games later in the day?

I know for a fact that SO's mom is going to be very disappointed that she wasn't even given the opportunity to be there. SO wasn't going to tell her about it, but I told him that there's a chance that SD could bring it up and then his mom might think that we failed to notify her. However, I am proud for SO because he stood up for himself. He said to BM, "When SD gets older and asks why I wasn't there for something that is obviously important to her, are you going to tell her that I was excluded?" At that point, BM told him to feel free to come and gave him the address, so he did. There is a silver lining - I had an skid-free day yesterday and it was nice. SO can let BM dictate his schedule all he wants, but I won't participate.