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I was fairly horrified at the prospect of being at home with SD14 for 10 days but things have taken a dramatic turn for the better. On the day of her arrival DH and I spent an hour preparing to discuss things with her. We made a number of decisions including doubling the duration of her grounding, removing the PC from her bedroom and putting it in a public place for shared use, restricting internet access to 2 hours and permanently disabling internet access from her laptop so it can only be used for schoolwork, and insisting that she provide the login details for her FB and email accounts.
She found out her bf (the one she snuck into our house back in June) is moving in 2 weeks. Now she wants to have a long-distance relationship with this boy. What!!?? I can't wait to see how this pans out. I'm terrified she is going to turn to the boy that threatened to kill her...apparently "he's changed"...whatever. She has been sternly informed that a relationship with that boy will totally kill her social life because she will not be allowed to leave the house except to go to school. She swears that won't happen, but I don't believe her for a second.
So,looks like things have taken a new turn with SD22,a girl that i have barely been able to get to know(her choice),and who seems determined to get some kind of reaction from me.
So SS10 was playing video games (huge surprise) and started freaking out because he couldn't get through some part of it. DH told him to turn it off because it was becoming way too important to him (which I agree with) and he had a total tantrum/meltdown.
My MIL has been driving me crazy. Every time she sees me eating something sugary, or drinking a pop (neither of which I do very often anymore...they just don't sound good very often) she goes on and on about how bad the sugar is for the baby. About how, if I'm really worried that the baby is going to have ADHD like it's dad, that I have to stop eating sugar/candy and avoid everything with high fructose corn syrup. That the sugar/candy I'm eating are somehow going to magically give my kid ADHD.
I remember the day I met my now SD for the first time. She was 9 at the time, kind of shy but nice and accepting overall and pretty pleasant. I probably committed the biggest SM sin that could ever be done - i told that little sweetie that "if I do something you don't like or agree with, I need you to tell me." Now fortunately/unfortunately she's never said a word directly to me about things that I may have said or done that she disagreed with, but I thought about it just now - Do I really WANT her to tell me what she's REALLY thinking?
For every time I think I might rise above and forgive BM for what she did to SS9, something happens that I just can't.
This morning I held SS9 on my lap as he woke up - a ritual we have had every morning since he was 6 - and today he looked in my eyes and said "Please don't ever leave me." It broke my heart. Even now, on my lunch break I am hurting.
I cant make a decision about whether to assume the mortgage on my upsidedown house of which I only have about 60 days left to do, or to buy another house for me and my children.
BF has his house, and we have discussed sharing a home, but Wackjob has already convinced the sd's that Daddy is gonna give thier rooms away.... So hes like, "well then she would be right".
I dunno, I just dunno........
Again, BM refuses to do anything with her children because it could be "hard". I am sooo sick of her and her dumb excuses not to be a parent.
BF daughter was gone Friday evening and Saturday at her friends house. She returned home Sunday. She slammed the door two times and called her dad stupid when he made her mad by asking her if she knew where her phone was. She opened the refrigerator 10 times in a 1.5 hr period, got a huge plate of food that she didn't eat more than two bites of, and talked incessantly ( and loudly) during the movie we were watching. Saying really meaningless things or things that made no sense all while rolling around in her dad's lap. Maybe it is the way I was brought up, but it really bothers me.
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