This is O/T, so I am sorry. I spent the last couple of days in the hospital with my mother. She has had congestive heart failure for several years, but Monday night she passed out at the wheel. My legally-blind grandfather was able to stop the car, and thankfully they were on a residential street. She's been in the hospital since then. They're going to put in a defibrillator, and take away her driver's license for a while.

We've heard through the kids that BM gripes about not having enough money. FDH is always annoyed to hear this because BM rents a 3 bedroom house, and the rent is his entire CS payment. If she moved to a smaller place and managed her money more wisely she wouldn't need to go whining to her lawyer that FDH's CS isn't enough to support the kids.

This weekend FSS5 was a little sick (not feverish, just coughing a little and lethargic). BM claims that FSS threw up a couple times on Friday, but I don't know if that meant he coughed and a little food came out or what. She's really a hypochondriac. She sent him over with children's advil. Isn't that stuff bad for kids? Besides, it was a pain reliever/fever reducer and he didn't need that so much as your basic cough medicine (if anything).

FSS just turned 5. Sometimes his words come out a little slurred, so it's hard to understand him. When we asked him what he wanted for his birthday it took us a while to understand that the word he was pronouncing was "dynamite." He also asked for a match, so that he could light the dynamite.

When asked why he wanted dynamite, he said--word for word-- "To blow up Santa."