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Tired2's picture

I'm so pissed off that my blood is boiling!!! BM or (C U Next Tuesday) was we lovingly refer to her has done it again! About two years ago it was DH's year to get SD11 for the first part of Christmas and BM's for second part....well BM's mother wanted to take the grandchildren to Disney World. Now first I have to ask....how selfish was that of her? At any rate, DH made BM sign an agreement (not through an attorney) that she would give up her next Christmas (which was last year) so that DH could have her. Well this year it was supposed to go back to the regular schedule. She calls DH and says that basically she just signed it to shut him up and so that SD11 could go with her mother and she didn't care that she was going to have her first. I'm so freakin bent out of shape about this!!!
I called our attorney and he said that there was nothing we could do right now but that we can take her to court for contempt after Christmas. This will be her 2nd time of being in court for being in contempt of the divorce agreement. I'm not sure what the court will do if anything. I'm just so pissed! I haven't talked to DH since I called the attorney. I'm at work and he's on vacation but I'm going to call him as soon as I leave here.

My question is this - should he even worry about it or most definitely spend the money to take her back to court even if he gets nowhere?

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Anne 8102's picture

...but I'm very familiar with the problem. We're supposed to have the skids every other holiday. What usually happens is DH will be en route to pick up the kids on Christmas Eve and BM will call and cancel. It was a five-hour drive to her house, so he'd just continue to pick them up, anyway, but they wouldn't be home. Then he'd have to turn around and drive all the way back. It's ruined many Christmases for us. So now we live way too far away to get them, unless we wanted to fly them out. We're not paying for three plane tickets only to have her not put them on the plane, so we don't have the annual Christmas cancellation letdown anymore. She "won" in that she doesn't have to share the kids with us at Christmas and really the kids don't seem to give a crap about it, but I hope someday they will know what they missed and why.

~ Anne ~

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