I was so mad, I forgot to say...she quit guard, and that was supposed to mean no more practices. But NOW, she is supposedly trying to learn percussion, and she is claiming that she has practice of some kind every freaking day of the week, oh, and she supposedly has a project to work on. I call BS!!! She is surely up to something...and I'm pretty sure it involves the boyfriend! SD14's tardies have gone up tremendously since she has started having a boyfriend...you know...what usually happens when there is too much kissy face going on in the halls somewhere. AND, when we went to go pick up the boyfriend on Saturday, DH asked her if she knew where we were going. She said she knew where her boyfriend's house was...and then quickly back-tracked and said that he sent her the address and she kinda had an idea where it was. DH asked her if she had ever been there (as we have never taken her over there), and (with her eyebrows going crazy and a strange tone in her voice) she quickly said she had never been over to his house. Yeah, right. Hmmm...seems to me there is some untruth going on here! But DH is just ignoring all the signs! Hope he is ready to be grandpa when she gets pregnant from her after-school rendezvous with her boyfriend, because you can't tell me she is that interested in playing percussion that she is spending 3 hours a day up at the school for this purpose only!

You know...every time he pulls this crap, I stop and think...I've raised two kids! In that time, they did sports and band. Only a very small handful of times did I get a call or text that they unexpectedly had to stay after school, and other times, they had a regular schdule of either needing to be their early or late (mostly for BS19 and football...in 7th grade, he had early practice...8th and up, he had after school during football and track seasons...BD22 was in band for 6 years, and only ever had one day a week to stay after school from 7th grade on, outside of Fridays for football when she was in high school). In EVERY case, I NEVER asked DH to do the job!! If he called me and offered, because he had gotten off of work earlier than anticipated, and was already in the area of the school, sure...I'd let him so that the kids wouldn't get stuck sitting outside. Other than that, the kids had to wait for me to get off of work and drive in rush hour traffic to come get them, or they would figure it out themselves (when BS19 started varsity, there was always a friend who could give him a ride when they were done, as at least half the team drove). And DH adopted both kids, so technically he was equally responsible! But I still saw it as I allowed them to be in those things, so it was my responsibility to pick them up or take them early.

DH thinks that just because I work out of the house, I'm the default limo service for his dear princess. The school is still 20 miles round trip from the house!!! And she is NEVER outside waiting for anyone...you get there, and you have to wait around like 30 minutes for her to finally emerge from somewhere!

One of the only times I'm saying hooray for something blowing up at work!! I have two systems that I have to stay at my computer and be on to fix them...I can't go anywhere until these things run on their own, because it is a matter of client service delivery! HA! Called DH to tell him, and he didn't sound happy about it...said he was just leaving work...40 miles away. Oh well...I told him weeks ago...every Wed. and Thurs. until we get more people hired and trained, I'm the one who is responsible for urgent system issues (we call it oncall, though it isn't quite being oncall...it is a shift, and if anything blows up at the end of our shift, we have to see it through until the end...we can't just call it quits when the shift ends and dump it on someone else). DH knows this...it isn't like this is new news! It has been this way for months since we had a guy quit! On my ugrent call days, I typically can't leave my computer until anywhere from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., so why is he telling SD14 to tell me to pick her up? And yes...it is basically tell me. She didn't ask if it was possible, she didn't ask DH if she could stay after school. He was TOLD she was staying after school, and I was TOLD I needed to pick her up! Sorry, um, no!

I can guarantee there will be a conversation about all of this tonight! There have been plenty of times had to work late when my kids had activities. I would tell them to see if they could find a ride home...most of the time they could...and if they couldn't, they either got stuck waiting for me, or I (not them), I would call someone and ask them to do ME the favor of picking them up because I got stuck at the office! And this was only for already pre-scheduled and approved stays...otherwise, the kids were told they had to bring their happy butts home on the bus!

DH just called and said that SD14 was going over to her boyfriend's house so she didn't have to sit up at the school...how convenient! I was like..."Um, really?!?" and he said that the boyfriend's mom told her that would be okay. Am I the only one detecting something fishy in this? How much y'all want to bet that SD14 has been over there for the last 2 hours already? I mean, why would she drive SD14 over to her house instead of just bringing her home?