Things have been pretty good at my house lately on the Blended Family Front, lol.

SS13 still asks us about Private School often, but he knows its not going to happen. We've been trying to play up the local public school and talking to him about the Frosh Football team. He is excited.

But let me remind you that this past summer BM talked SS out of playing for our local Pop Warner league because she didn't want to make the drive to practice, but she told him she was afraid he'd get hurt. This was just months after she had her neighbor write a letter to the judge stating what a good parent she was, that she always played catch with SS in the street with his football and that SS had a natural ability. It backfired on BM and the judge said that since SS had this "natural ability" for football, both parents should do everything they could to help him develop - including taking him to practice and games. So it was put in the court order in February. BM never took him to anything all of last year.

We laid low as we were busy having our baby and we wanted to build our case for contempt, reducing her visitaion, her breaking the RO, etc, etc.

So we haven't bothered telling BM about football yet. It starts in the summer and goes through the fall. The sooner we tell her, the more time she'll have to talk SS out of it.

Our hope is that he will have something (football) at the new school to help him make friends, give him access to something he really likes doing, and keep him focused on positive things.

So, let's play a game.

What's your prediction on what BM will do when we alert her in the late spring to SS's desire to play football. We will let her know what the practice schedule is (they start in july and go Mon - Sat right up untill school starts late august. The new school schedule already messes up our planned two weeks on/off schedule, so I'm sure she'll have something to say/argue about the summer schedule anyway. We will propose that she do her first two week extended visit at the beginning of the summer but that if she doesn't want to drive him to practice each day, we can revert back to our every other weekend visitation schedule.

Anyone want to make a prediction?