Wow, I am just...speechless.

SS's Fall Break was this week & half of last week. DH has asked BM if she wanted him for the entire break (we've been working a lot of overtime lately and it would be almost impossible to find childcare during that time) and she actually agreed. Which is what she usually does. Then she gets tired of him after the first few days and dumps him back on us.

It started Tuesday afternoon. She called during the day, while DH was asleep (he works nights and she knows this) to say SS had swallowed a loose tooth. Because that TOTALLY qualifies as an emergency situation. Want to know why he swallowed it? Because she was trying to "work it out" of his mouth by tying a STRING around it! Seriously. I'm wondering if she attached the other end to a door!

So she called again Wednesday afternoon, waking DH up AGAIN, to tell him she can't "handle" SS, that's he's out of control and won't listen to her. After listening to her whining excuses and not-so-subtle hints that my DH should just come pick him up so she can be rid of him, my DH finally told her that it's her problem, not his, and that she needs to deal with it on her own and stop calling him for stupid crap (I'm so proud) and to only call if it's an emergency.

She, of course, gets all angry & pissed and says that she just won't call him at all then, even for an emergency. How dare he tell her no!

So Thursday was actually quiet. No ringing phone.

Here comes Friday. She calls, waking DH up AGAIN. Guess what? She is siiiiiick :sick: She supposedly had to go to the emergency room (no insurance, so she's wracking up another bill for the hospital to write off...lovely) and they diagnosed her with swine flu. So SS can't possibly be around her now.

Oh. How convenient. Especially right before the weekend and her being all boyfriend-less and on the manhunt for her next sugar daddy.

I am just SO angry, most of all that she knows the ONLY way she can get my DH to take SS on her time is if she says she is sick. I'm especially angry this time because she has to use something particularly scary like swine flu. My SS has respiratory issues and gets sick at the drop of the hat, so this is not something she should be lying about! And yes, I realize there is a possibility that she actually have it, but given her history of crying wolf when she's supposedly "sick", I'm thinking this is just a lame excuse because she knows DH is a responsible parent and will suck it up for the good of my SS.

So if she really does have it, chances are he now has it too. Which means he is now exposing his great-grandparents to it until I can pick him up. Which means then I'll be exposed. If I get sick, I have to stay out of work at least 7 days, and I have no vacation time to spare

I'm just tired of the unfairness of it all. That we can finally catch a small break and let her be a responsible parent for once, and then we end up paying for it three times over.