The gods must be smiling down on me or something, but by a stroke of luck, we will not have the skids for 2 weekends in a row! Woo-hoo! BM wants them next weekend so she can have SDsoon-to-be10's birthday party, then the following weekend she keeps them again for Halloween, yay! I plan on doing alot of much needed relaxing and bonding with SO during our free time. Maybe take a drive south to see some friends one weekend and have some adult interactions lol, or go out for a day hike and enjoy nature as it should be enjoyed.. in a QUIET and serene manner!

On a side-not, SD10 was really getting on my nerves this weekend too, so the drop-off couldn't have come soon enough! Ugh! She's an incredibly clingy child and I find it to be borderline inappropriate now that her pre-pubescent years are on the horizon. I hope it's something she grows out of when she does start hitting her teen years. SO and I have tried talking to her about maintaining personal boundaries and telling her a young lady who should be respected does not sit all over other people's laps. We were at a birthday party yesterday though and it's like nothing was ever discussed, she sits all over grown men's laps, her uncles, family friends, she tries with her dad but he's been pushing her off more, but still it's weird to see a young girl like that sitting on laps like you'd expect a teen girl to do with a boyfriend, she drapes her arms around their necks, presses her body against theirs, rubs her hands on their shoulders.. etc, Idk, maybe i'm just over-reacting, but I know when I was a girl I was always taught to keep my hands to myself, plus it just seems to me that if personal boundaries are never taught, then what's to stop her from thinking that being overly physical with boys is ok?