https://thestraightjuice.substack.com/p/total-eclipse-of-2024-pending-di...

I am so thrilled for those of Us Steptalkers that are in line to see this! Hope its not too crazy for you.
Im hoping the skids will not look at the sun without those special glasses! 

Here on the west coast we dont have much in the way of viewing - Im still taking the day off to "experience" it 

So DH gets an email from the swim club that SS14'S account is over $1000 in arrears and he's not allowed to enter the pool. At this point DH had already dropped him off and when he went to check on him he saw he was in the pool. He didn't say anything to SS14 about it, just told BM to pay. 

Well BM called SS14 the next day crying about how sorry she was and telling him she owed $15,000 to the swim club blah blah blah. SS14 came to tell me and he was very upset. 

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venting.. My mother is very much alive...but very absent in my life, my brother that is still living and all our children's. She only shows face when she wants a special "kodak" moment to show all her friends on social media world.  But lately its been very painful... i've completely cut ties to her as she has me.

You longtime members here with me know my situation... I had one child naturally.. adopted a sd and am raising 2 more sd's. 

....not! 
 

Well my managers manager calls me and I decided to answer. 

*I shouldn't have answered ugh bc she completely caught me off guard
 

Mind you I'm in the middle of filing unemployment....

Asking me if I'm okay and no explanation as to why my calendar was blank when I first asked weeks ago. 
 

Then asking if I wanted to come back to work for them....tomorrow.  

IDK if I have legal leverage with the FMLA issue or if they're just so hard up for employees after they let a bunch of people go. 
 

YSD18 hasn't been here but for once in early February this year.

DH is increasingly upset about it. I keep telling him to continue to ask her, leave her messages, etc. but don't stop. It's not like her really but I have to wonder, child support ended for him at the end of February....She is also really terrible at communications and human engagement which I also remind him of so it may actually not be a personal thing.

STILL I tell him, it's rude.

I encourage him to go to her. Seek her out. Set a date.

For a little refresher... SO and BM have been separated 13 years...they did get back together briefly (aka BM had no man at the time and SO was stupid)  but it lasted maybe 2 months and that was 11 years ago. I've been with SO 8.5 years and BM is married and has been with her husband longer then I've been with SO. She lives 4 miles from us. There is SS20, SS19 and SDstb17 (3 weeks) 

Mom, dad, and DW picked me up at the airport at 20:00 on Friday evening.  We had a great quick weekend at mom and dad's.  Saturday we had breakfast with mom, dad, niece, and her DH then went to my brother's house for a morning visit on Saturday. We ended up having lunch at my brothers "club". 

Have I mentioned that my baby bro is a business executive savant?  He has done exceptionally well.  No envy on my part.  Just pure pride in the man, DH, dad, son, brother, and leader that he is.  Please give me a lump in my throat proud big brother reset moment. Ha... hmmmm.

In the last installment of SD14 is PAS'd out, she had made some vague statements to her counselor about wanting to move to Alaska while Crazy was on vacation, so DH had to go pick her up and take her for a night. That was a few weeks ago and she hasn't been here since, but of course there have still been boatloads of drama. 

I’m at a complete and total loss, and truly just seeking advice, because I have no idea what to do. Some background information is that we have SS14, SD12, and SS5 every other week. SS14 has always had a temper and fighting troubles. BM has always bailed him out of everything. BM isn’t the best figure and neither is any of her family. In the six years that I’ve been with my husband, she’s probably had five separate occasions of unemployment, and from memory, eight different jobs (I know there are more, but I just don’t remember all of them).