Just a little update from the weekend with mini-vents.

I went to pick up SS last Friday as I always do (we live 45 miles away but I work in the same town SS lives in).

Mini-vent #1: No matter how early I get there, or whether or not SS is ready, or how bad the weather is, etc.etc.etc. SS will NEVER come out before 5:30. BM told him he is not to leave the house until then.

So, I am waiting for SS to come out from downstairs and see that people upstairs keep looking out the window at me. WTH you looking at bitch?? I'm the same person I have always been, even driving the same car (that BM is WAY jealous of) as I have been for the past 2 months. I can imagine that she is showing whomever my nice car while complaining that her CS won't be going up! Well, that's because I am making the cha-ching NOT H!! }:)

SS comes out and we leave. He tells me about his grades (As & Bs) and that SD got into another accident with "their" car. He said that BM is going to make her pay for insurance now.

Mini-vent #2: I blame the city for leaving such HUGE piles of snow on the corners so every time you leave from a stop sign or whatever, you are taking your safety into your own hands!

SS also tells me that BM is starting her own daycare "so she can get free formula and stuff". So, BM found ANOTHER way of making money off children!! Good for her.

So I said, "Oh, that's nice! Now SD won't have to take (grandbaby) all the way across town for his daycare." To which SS replies, "No, mom won't watch (grandbaby). Not sure why. It would save SD quite a bit on gas money."

Mini-vent #3: If you ran a daycare and your bio child needed a sitter, what skin off of your nose would it be to watch your grandbaby?? Hell, I would watch the step-grandbaby if I ran a daycare!

H talked to me about the settlement that SD is going to get when she turns 18 from a car accident that we had many years ago (I wrote nastygrams to the insurance company to get this settlement for her). He said that he is going to make her come down to get it so he will at least get to see/talk to her THEN.

Mini-vent #4 & #5: I don't think that they will send the money to H for him to "dole out" to SD. He is named guardian for the account but I guess I am not sure how it works. I just know that if I was in H's shoes and my child had not seen me or even returned any type of communication with me in 7 months, I would be doing ANYTHING I COULD to find out what the problem was. Including getting BM involved, if need be. I sure as hell wouldn't wait ANOTHER 6 months to POSSIBLY have the bait for the kid to come out to our house!

OK - done.