SS has been very open lately about his mom and the things she says about us and how she treats him when it comes to us. SS has been very DAD DAD DAD lately. So far up dad's butt I only have his toes to love on. That is OK with me. I know SS loves me with all he has. He needs that Dad time anyway.

So here is the meat of the post. Friday's I work from home. SS was with us all last week for his last weekly summer visit. I was working on my laptop on the couch and he was sitting on the foot stool at the coffee table with his drawing pad and art box. He was talking to me about what he was drawing and would tell me every 3 or 4 minutes that he loved me and he loved his dad. He is a VERY VERY loving child. So I said hey why don't you draw me a picture of our family the way you see it. He said you mean like draw us and I said yeah draw us the way you see it. So he drew his dad, myself, and himself. He drew his dad's go-tee(not sure of spelling) on his, drew me in a skirt, and drew himself with a spike hair-do like I fix him in. He put LOVE then our last name at the to and then drew hearts over each of our heads and lines connecting the hearts. In the picture we were all holding hands. The picture was a nice big picture it took him about 30 minutes to do it. When he showed it to me he said look there's my spikes and your skirts and look at dad's face and he pointed us all holding hands. I asked him what the hearts and lines meant and he said that means that we all love each other so much. So I said wow I really love that picture. So then I said why don't you draw me a family picture of you, your mom, your brother and them. So happily he said OK and went to work. About 10 minutes later he said done and I said OK let's see. When he showed it to me right away I saw that there were 2 very important family members missing. I said OK tell me about it. He said that is XXX(his mom's BF) and that is my mom and that is XXX XXX XXX (his mom's BF's 3 girls) No detail was given to any of the people he drew and they were very small. He pointed out that his mom and her BF were not holding hands cause they did not do that and he only put hearts and lines about the heads of the 3 girls. I said to him well there are 2 people missing here and he said Who? I said you and your little brother. Well I thought he would take the paper back and say oh I forgot but he did not he just looked at me. So I asked him why he left him and his little brother out(little brother his by his mom's BF). SS said I just did not want to put us in there and so I asked why and he said I just didn't. I said you put yourself with me and dad and again he said I just didn't put us there. I said well that is strange and he said I just forgot and then I could see tears well up in his eyes so I said baby tell me why you did not put you and your lil bro in the picture he said I did not want to put us in there cause they are mean and I do not want him around that. So later after he left I was showing his dad the pictures and on the picture of me him and his dad he had drawn his little brother holding his hand and a heart and line above his head.

Needless to say I thought his picture spoke volumes about how he sees things. Am I reading too much into that? Now mind you I am always very encouraging of love your mom be good to your mom you are suppose to love your mom and your dad etc even though she makes him feel like CRAP for even showing signs of liking us.

Thoughts???