Yep, it was a trifecta. A hat trick. Three strikes.

SO and I took his 2 kids and my 2 kids camping this weekend and:

1. SD was off the charts with whining/complaining about nothing to do, too much to do, no food she liked except chips (which is no different than home), and anything else she could think of, right down to the size of the marshmallows I bought. But worst of all was not only the constant ridiculous fighting/arguing with her brother and my son, but continually running to SO to whine/cry that everybody is so mean to her. She actually uttered this sentence after her brother tried telling their Dad how horrible she is about fighting, "It's just because everybody is always mean to me. I never do anything wrong". Blatant lie. I saw her kick and punch her brother, as well as kick enough dirt at him to create a small dirt cloud. It didn't matter how wrong she was, she would argue it just to argue, for instance arguing with my son that he wouldn't need a shower when we got home because he swam in the lake the day before. Seriously.

2. SD and I were alone at one point and she was telling me how BM didn't think my kids and I were going camping (even though it's my camper and truck) and that her mom thought she could come with. W.T.F.?!?!? BM still thinks after 2 years that I'm not going along? And that she was going?

3. SO allowed SD to act the way I mentioned in #1 above AND defended her behavior. He actually stuck up for her even though her arguing was just plain wrong. It was so bad I don't even care about all of her complaining, by comparison. But the fact that something about the things he says or the way he acts makes BM believe she is still enough part of his life to go camping? And that all he had to say in response when I asked him about it was "the things she says and does are not my problem"? And that when she started calling over and over again not one minute after he was home from dropping skids off Sunday night until I finally made him call her back because I could not stand the phone ringing any more and I heard her ask "Did (my name) go with?" and he just said "Yeah" instead of anything else along the lines, "Of course she did because (choose one here) we're togehter/I love her/we do stuff together/we're a family/it's her fucking camper/whatever"? I'm so pissed at him that I actually am not ready to talk to him about it yet, and that's rare for me to be at a loss for words when I'm mad. I know he's just going to claim it's BM's craziness that made her think she could go, but I know that even though he hates her, the way he is with her- and I mean only what I see, let alone what goes on that I don't know about- is wishy-washy, for lack of a better word right now. Example- BM asks SO to fix some house thing or other and instead of saying NO, he'll avoid answering her or say he's busy or anything else to just put her off and not have to deal with her. So it's like the door of possibility is still there, if that makes any sense. Similar to how he interacts with SD. Example- every single weekend SD asks SO where he's sleeping (meaning with her or not) and he says "We'll see" or "Don't worry about it", rather than "In my bed in my bedroom". Leaves the possibility open that he'll sleep with SD.

I'm maddest at SD and SO, then only slightly more than usual at BM. Like I said, I'm too angry to speak logically about it with SO right now...but fortunately I have this blog to spew out some of the poison. Let me just summarize the above to get it out of my system:

1. SD is an atrocious brat.

2. BM is a delusional psycho bitch grasping at any straw.

3. SO is a clueless idiot.

There. End rant.