My DH arrived today after having some drinks with friends. To me he had too many, to him he had not. At 8pm I went to Walmart w/my kiddo...we ate at McDonalds and shopped. At 10pm on my way home I call both his cell phones and no answer. I get home and he is asleep.

1)to me if you aré a responsible husband/wife, you always answer your phone if your wife/kids are out, especially at night...anything could happen and my thought is you either stay awake until they arrive home safely or put both phones next to you and answer if they call...or anyone for that matter.

Every year we go camping to the same place for a week. This is our 5th year going. It has been one year since my stepdaughter has been with us. She refuses to come because I am so mean to her. So she says. I am mean in that I will not put up with a child telling me what she is and isn't going to do. She tells me that her mother and grandparents told her that she doesn't have to mind me and that they are right. Then again, they tell my husband all the time that if he really loved his daughter, he would divorce me. Anyway, it is time to go camping and once again my husband asked her to go.

So SS2 is has his big third birthday this weekend and BM is hosting the party. I’ve seen countless posts here over the last few months on parties and what should or should not be expected/volunteered/pushed into doing as far as these situations go and I’m completely at a loss as to how I ended up in the predicament I now find myself in.

I am "on vacation" this week with DH and stepkids, SS8 and SD6. It has been really rough. SD hurt her leg while playing outside, and she hasn't been talking much and has been clinging nonstop to DH (usually SD and I are a team and we do things together). SD hasn't wanted to come near me, barely talks to me and seems really jealous when DH pays any attention to me. SS has been behaving terribly: demanding toys and time, talking back to DH, screaming randomly at the top of his lungs and not listening at all.