I know I have to tell DH, the skids know I have to tell DH. I need advice on HOW to approach it with DH in an attempt to minimize the nuclear explosion that is sure to come.

So it is midnight on the dot last night and sd21s bf texts me....call me right now. So I call and find out that sd21 went to her friend's house and got arrested and taken to jail.

Come to find out from friends mother, sd21 took rum and beer over and they were all making noise in the car out front and smoking cigarettes. Cops stopped to make sure it wasn't marijuana, and sd21 had a warrant for unpaid speeding tickets.

So today, my hubby & I both took the day off because we had a mid-day meeting at the school with SD12's teachers, guidance counselor, vice principal, and school psychologist, oh, I forgot BM was also there. The day started much like any other. I was the first up in the house, I met a neighbor at the HS bus stop so she could bring brownies and cookies to my SS16 - today is his B-day (so if you live anywhere in Orange or Rockland Counties in NY---BEWARE, another student driver on the road).

My Hell and Daddy-kins came home about a half an hour ago...She goes into her room and shuts the door....A few minutes later we all hear her annoying voice screeching "Dad!!! My acne medication is missing!!"

Daddy-kins: "You probably just lost it in that dirty room.." (He acknowledges her room is dirty but heaven forbid he should tell her to clean it.)

My Hell: "NO, I left it on my dresser this morning...I neeeeeeeedddd it so I don't break out!" (She is right about that...With out that face cream she is a regular pizza face...)

I have a special request! If you change avatars, please let us know!!! Or at least little ol me. Lol. I know most of you by you avatars and then you change and it messes up my whole stalk experience.

I used to like this one poster but she had the worst avatar ever. Lol. It was a set of lips that were full of fever blisters. I can’t remember her name so I am not sure if she is still here and just changed her avatar.

Do you know most by the avatar or the name?

I'm at a loss.

So much of a loss, that I'm sitting down and starting a blog. I didn't know if I should...I didn't know where to start...so I told myself, "Woman. Just sit down and start writing."

I'm engaged to a man with 2 bio-atomicbombdropping-teens - SD17 & SS18. The family issues are quite, interesting, as I'm without children of my own and the BM & Hubby#3 have 8 children (with the two I previous mentioned) combined. Let's just say that life is never boring.

In my profile I said we have the two youngest living with us. Well my SD moved out in July '10 because she didn't like being punished for lying. So now we only have the SS who is now 17. My husband became a truck driver the first of Sept '10 and I ride with him. We are gone from Sunday to Friday every week. We had my husbands friend to move in so SS would have some supervision. Which is not going very well. SS has been sneaking out at night, selling or pawning things of ours and stealing from us and my H friend. He has people over and drinks when there's no one here.

Princess didn't have to have surgery. She had to be trasnported to another hospital, since the surgeon wasn't there. Before starting the procedure, the surgeon did another check, and couldn't find what the other hospital had found! So surgery diverted last night, and more tests ran this morning. They can't find anything wrong with her that would be causing severe abdominal pains. She will be released within the hour and Loghead will take her back to college...

So Christmas has come and gone and I think it’s safe to reveal what BM’s xyz gift was. Please see earlier blogs for the full story:

A Christmas gift for BM
http://www.steptalk.org/node/37069

Update – A Christmas gift for BM
http://www.steptalk.org/node/37141

SS9 has a smart-mouth. It’s not so much what he says but how he says it. His target is usually me but DH also gets it too. We’ve been on him for months trying to correct the behavior, but SS9 hasn’t gotten the point. Last night was no exception.

DH, SS9, and I were having a nice dinner. (SS13 had a school activity that DH had to pick him up from later in the evening.) During the meal I noticed SS9 playing with his food and not using his silverware properly. I let it go, till the nearly the end of the meal. By this time DH had corrected him a couple of times.