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What kid gets to choose where they live?

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Submitted by Rags on Tue, 10/19/2010 - 10:31pm

In initial (intact) BioFamilies kids don't get to choose where they live so why do people in blended families allow kids to choose where they life? :?

To me this is asinine. If I were a CP I would make it abundantly clear to the kid and to the NCP that I am the only one who decides where my child will live. If I were a parent in a 50/50 situation I would make it abundantly clear to the kid and to the other parent that I will keep my 50 whether the other parent or the kid(s) want to visit or not.

This young lady is an SM and she is not even the SO/Spouse.

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Submitted by Rags on Sat, 10/16/2010 - 12:44am

I read this on Abby today. I know, there goes another of Rags' man cards.

Thoughts?

DEAR ABBY: I'm a 23-year-old woman who has been helping to raise my three adorable godchildren over the last few years. Their mother is also 23. She became pregnant with her oldest when she was 15. She's a young single mother, unprepared for the full responsibility, so I have stepped in.

What the hell did I just eat for lunch?

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Submitted by Rags on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 12:01am

I ordered some chicken thing that was cooked in some Chinese style that I can not even come close to pronouncing.

When it arrived at my table it was on a giant plate and was a huge mound of chopped red dry Asian peppers mixed with a little sautéed green onion, a small amount of "chicken" that was cut complete with little bones and some seasoning that looked like little hand grenade shaped seed pods that tasted a little like licorice. The meat was pan fried without batter.

It had a hot, tingly flavor on my tongue and made my mouth and face numb.

This may be a bit mundane but ... I had to share.

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Submitted by Rags on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 3:43pm

All,

Below is an e-mail that I got from my wife in response to an e-mail I sent to her yesterday. Not neccessarily a hugely on topic communication but it does have elements of marriage, daily life and dealing with our son (my SS).

It made me smile.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Best regards,

(Rags),

Another Monster Step-Parent.

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Submitted by Rags on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 4:43am

These people piss me off. Any parent that would harm a child pisses me off but I have a significant amount of animosity when Sparents are the abusive parent.

I guess because I am a Sparent and being a Sparent is hard enough without having to overcome the stigma that these ingnorant evil ass holes apply to the Sparent title.

Grrrrrr!!!!

My wife bought THE T-shirt

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Submitted by Rags on Wed, 10/06/2010 - 4:22pm

I forwarded the link for the Wife V2.0 T-Shirt to my wife. She cracked up when she saw it. She bought it. She went with Red.

She even called my mother to tell her about it and they both chuckled over the phone about it.

They both get many chuckles of my first marriage.

Thanks for sharing S-Moms. :O

Best regards,

"I would love to keep you away from him but I would never keep him away from you!"

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Submitted by Rags on Fri, 10/01/2010 - 5:00pm

I watched Teen Moms on MTV the other night. One of the characters (Macy) said this to her son's baby daddy.

"I would love to keep you away from him but I would never keep him away from you!" She was expressing her feelings of how the baby daddy was not someone she wanted to be around her son but that her son deserved to have a relationship with his daddy.

Be reasonable, work with us, or suffer!

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Submitted by Rags on Fri, 10/01/2010 - 11:24am

This morning I have been reflecting on our 16+ year adventure in dealing with the SpermIdiot and the SpermClan.

My wife gave me a desk top photo album/stand for our 16th anniversary. Today I flipped the pictures and there is a picture of my kid (SS-18) from 12-12-94. What a great hid he is was and is. Except for the teen thing that he may yet live through he is a truly outstanding young man. My wife and I are proud to be his mom and dad.

As for the SpermClan.......

I can sum the entire 16+ years up in one sentence. Be reasonable, work with us, or suffer!

Where have I been?

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Submitted by Rags on Wed, 09/29/2010 - 10:01am

Sorry for my somewhat extended absence. I have been busy closing on a new house, moving, unpacking, setting up the home, getting all of the utilities turned on, etc..... My bride has been the one to do these types of things until now. She recently started with a new firm and I have been in Houston for several months before she got here so this time it is all on me to get everything turned on at the house.

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