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OT - grand jury duty

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Submitted by Jcksjj on Thu, 04/04/2019 - 8:17am

Has anyone on here had to serve on a grand jury? Any time I've had to do regular jury duty its ended up getting cancelled, but it looks like that's less likely for a grand jury. Basically I'm wondering how long I'm going to be stuck there, all the notice says is that it could possibly be into the evening hours. Which is super inconvenient on that particular day.

Finally a step situation in real life that seems similar to mine

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Submitted by Jcksjj on Mon, 04/01/2019 - 4:30pm

DH and I took YDS to a class for babies and toddlers today and there was another lady there with a baby who had 2 older skids. 

First thing I noticed: she referred to them as her husbands kids and not "bonus kids" or anything of that nature.

Second: she was very concerned about the differences in parenting with BM and the older kids and how she wanted to raise hers. 

MIL predicts one of my big fears

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Submitted by Jcksjj on Mon, 03/18/2019 - 2:16pm

So my 30 year old SIL is a mess and keeps borrowing 1000s of dollars from MIL and FIL. MIL keeps calling DH and crying to him about all of his sisters drama and how she isnt going to have any retirement money left etc and he basically tells her well stop giving it to her then. Well we went out to eat with MIL and FIL this weekend and the topic most of the time was SIL and her drama. At one point MIL says well I hope it ends soon because I'd like to have a life also. And then goes I know (DH) would say I can now but he will see someday how hard it is.

SDs new attitude

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Submitted by Jcksjj on Fri, 03/15/2019 - 6:33pm

SD has been unusually perky and friendly the last 2 weeks that she has been at our house (minus a couple small incidents last week). Much kinder to my kids than she ever has and interacted with YDS on her own briefly for the first time ever. Like the complete opposite of usual. I cant remember a time in the last at least 2 years that she has been here and acting like this.

Positive discipline only

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Submitted by Jcksjj on Wed, 02/27/2019 - 8:30am

The school my DS and SD go to seems to have a policy for only using positive encouragement and not really having any discipline. The furthest discipline really goes is to have them sit in the "peace place" to relax for a bit. I'm starting to find this annoying because the kids seem to basically think they can so whatever they want. DS at first didnt even realize that getting sent to the peace place meant his behavior needed to change. He had a teacher last year who was an amazing mix of both caring and yet stern enough but she seems to be a rarity. 

BM is a weirdo pt 2

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Submitted by Jcksjj on Mon, 02/25/2019 - 6:23pm

Normally I see BM every other week when she is picking up SD from school at the same school my son goes to. Shes currently taking SD an extra day a week (today) for her to go to gymnastics. For some extra background, BM constantly needs to be "seen" and finds some stupid reason to be involved extra if she hasn't gotten enough attention (for lack of a better word) lately. Especially when her relationships havent been going well. This last week I managed to pretty much avoid seeing her altogether.

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