I started a new job so I don’t have as much time for Steptalk – which is good and bad of course Thankfully I haven’t had a ton to vent about....until today!

I love how BM has no qualms about admitting openly that she can’t stand having to parent for longer than a week at a time.

This week is supposed to be our week to take the skids. BM has had them since last Sunday since it was her week. We found out via daycare and Facebook that BM’s mom picked up SS4 for the weekend and SD6 went to her biodad’s mom’s for the weekend. Also they were at grandma's house on Wednesday night, too. So in reality, BM had them Sunday thru Tuesday nights, then Thursday -Friday morning, and a few hours with SS4 this weekend during the day.

DH is out of town for work training seminars this week. He arranged with BM that she would keep the kids this upcoming week during those days. He was supposed to leave today but they changed flight schedules on him so he had to leave yesterday. He let BM know that the schedule changed and she freaked out on him, saying “Wow thanks for letting me know last minute especially since it’s supposed to be MY DAY OFF. I’ve had the kids for two weeks.”

First of all, she obviously doesn’t understand math. She’s had them for ONE week, not two.

Second, really? Oh Poor poor BM that doesn’t get a “day off” from her kids??? UGH he wanted to throw it in her face that we know she went out both Friday and Saturday nights but couldn’t. And that she barely spent any time with the kids this weekend because one was at one grandma’s and the other at her mom’s. How is that not a day off??? She had a whole frickin weekend “off”!

So yesterday afternoon she “let” us take SS4 for a few hours before DH had to leave for the airport so he could see sS4 for a little bit. Then sS4 didn’t want to go back to BM’s so we asked her if she minded if I kept him overnight. She said that was fine...

Well here is the best part of my day today:
I drop off my BS and SS4 at daycare this morning, and Daycare and I are chatting. I explained to her that this would normally be our week but I’m not sure yet what’s going on because I’m not sure BM will “let” me keep SS4 this week. I was trying to kind of be sensitive to the situation but explain to her what was going on so she'd know.

Daycare said, “I’m sure she will, she always has to have all this time off from the kids.”

I said, “BM's issue is that she wants us to take both SS4 AND his sister, not just SS4.”

Daycare rolls her eyes and says, “SD6 isn’t even DH’s kid! YOU -- BM's ex boyfriend's wife -- are certainly not responsible to take SD6!” (AHHH, so daycare even GETS IT!)

Daycare goes on to say that “Well maybe BM will just ship SD6 off to her grandma’s again for the week so you can keep SS4 and she can have her ‘free’ week – it’s not like she would ever want to spend time with her daughter.” (very sarcastic!)

I had a hard time containing my little giggle about it....:) Daycare is really not keeping it a secret anymore that she has hard feelings for BM.

I'm still waiting to hear from DH what BM has said about me keeping SS4 this week.