DW and I are in the middle of a custody dispute with ExW regarding BS8. When I first approached ExW about a custody modification, she told me that DS8 would be staying with her "until the situation indicates that he would be better off otherwise." I am not sure what that means, but the next thing she said was that if I wanted to continue that line of talk, we would have to do it through lawyers. So that's what I did. The judge mandated mediation as a first step.

DS17 turns 18 in two months. DD15 lives primarily with me, DWand skids. Goes to school here and willccertainly graduate here.

DW has recently been reading my blogs and maintains that my blogs are only sharing one side of the story. She does not feel that her side is being represented at all, and I see her point. So, here goes. I am trying to write this in her voice and not provide any justification for nor cast doubt on any of the comments made. I think this is how she sees it.

This morning DW told SS12 that he had to clean his room. He wasn't happy about it, then BS7 offered to help. DW said that if he did that, then SS12 would help him with his room. So BS7 did help him at least get the dirty laundry off the floor and put some stuff away. Maybe half an hour. No biggie.

In the meanwhile, DW is cleaning away, and tells SD15 that she needs to help. SD15 yells that she has a lot of stuff to do and will do some of her laundry. DW told her that she needed to do more than that, and she did clean a little. Again, no biggie to me.