I have told myself for many years that I should write a book! Unbelievable is the only word that is appropriate when describing our situation. 
And the latest will not disappoint...

Let me start off by saying I pop in here every once in a while but for the most part I am completely and utterly disengaged. I have zero contact with HCBM. And am not involved with skids day to day life other than to say hello or goodbye. Their choice but after many years I have accepted that and moved on. We live parallel lives 50 percent of the time within our home. 

Now for the latest. It was a non-skid weekend. DH gets a text from HCBM informing him that new husband's ex wife tested positive for covid. New husband also has kids so potential contact would be through the shared home of HCBM and ultimately to us as the kids swap back and forth every other day (yes the most ridiculous CO). 

I found it odd that HCBM was informing DH of this as she never communicates important information. Literally one of his children could be hospitalized and she wouldn't let him know. But whatever. I would soon know the oddity if it. 

DH begins to move through damage control. He has to be extra cautious as MIL needs daily care due to cancer along with very recent major surgeries. So he responds asking for the new husbands kids to be at home tested, provided by him. And he would drop off those tests asap, which he did. He also dropped off tests for his own kids as well. 

Not long after DH receives another text stating that one of the new husband's kids tested positive, so far. Literally the text said "so far we have 1 positive". Then goes on to say that HCBM and New Husband are keeping his kids there to quarantine and they can also keep DH's kids as well. He sadly agrees and asks for retests to be done at the end of the week which again he will provide. HCBM says no problem. 

At this point I have my 2 school aged kids plus plans to see family for Thanksgiving. So I plan to test us Monday just to make sure we are negative before potentially exposing others. However my gut had red flags going off all over the place. So I reached out to New Husband's ex wife directly Monday afternoon...

And guess what?! Not only are her kids healthy but they confirmed that they had never been tested by HCBM. Furthermore they went to school Monday along with DH's kids, nobody is quarantined. And New Husband's kids were never exposed to ex-wife as new husband had custody time when ex wife was exposed! 

Yup! 

Now you may ask yourself, is new husbands ex wife lying? After this conversation with ex wife my kids arrive home from school. They attend the same school as New Husbands kids and are friends. Not only were new husbands kids indeed in school but they said only their mom has covid and everyone else is fine. 
 

*cue head explosion*