I had my baby. Sweet baby girl, she is now 3 weeks old. 
SD came back last fortnight and met her and had a cuddle. I found the whole thing awkward. 
I got zero apology and she spoke to me like the last 3 months didn't happen where she threw a royal tantrum and refused to come back to our house and BM sent a bullying and manipulative email about me. 

It was BS birthday party last weekend. He was turning 4. DH's parents traveled about 5/6 hours to come to his birthday party on Saturday. DH let SD14 know ahead of time that family was coming to visit. Her response was "Well, I was planning on going to my Mom's."  DH proceeded to explain how far they are traveling, haven't seen them in a year, etc. SD14 eventually folded and she stayed at our house last weekend instead of going to BMs. 

Friday night rolls around and SD14 had a decent conversation with the grandparents for about 30 minutes. 

I enjoyed Michelle Obama’s response to divorce rumors. She didn’t attend Jimmy Carter’s funeral or Trump’s 2nd inauguration with her husband and so the rumor mill jumped to the conclusion that they are getting a divorce.

These have brought to mind a movie I remember from when I was very young.

The Savage is Loose.

It is a 1974 film produced by and staring Georce C. Scott.

If you have never seen it, I highly recommend it.   It is new on NetFlix.

It is a 2018 film about a stone age tribe and the establishment of the relationship between humans and wolves (Dogs).  

An excellent movie.  

Ive been looking forward to it coming to streaming services.

SS13 is riding the spring break cruise high, as he has been SUPER talkative and engaged with us on our twice weekly phone calls since he went home last weekend. Clearly the cruise for spring break had a positive impact on SS. We are happy to see him so much more engaged with us. 

We did another family trip. Big mistake.  It was for sd's provincials. Which means her mother went too.

Just a quick update... things have been quiet and peaceful since LI left after Christmas but now that the weather is warming up my anxiety is creeping back in. At Christmas LI mentioned that she'd like to come back up in the summer so we could all meet her new bf (like anyone, including DH, gives a flying f- about meeting the latest in what will undoubtedly be a revolving door of men).

A couple things since Christmas....

So MIL texted me today asking if I was planning something for DH birthday which is on April 21st ( she knows I plan things super early ) I told her we were tossing around the idea of going out of town for food Friday and maybe returning Saturday but I was not sure because Easter is Sunday and I'm hosting something with my sister . Then she said that they wanted to surprise DH by getting SD to make a appearance.