for the next two weeks I'm going to be at the Mister's house. Unfortunately this overlaps a week's worth of the Kid's summer visit with him.

I have a feeling I will be on here at least a few times...

I was totally aware of the overlap when I made the plans; I have a lot of things going on during that week in the Mister's town so I won't be around too too much during it. And since the Mister stays home it shouldn't be too bad as far as me having to do anything parent-like.

Okay my DH and I are finally getting SD7 for the first time ever in our state until the end of summer. BM is the mayor of Crazy Town, and I am freaking out about what she might do or accuse us of. She has her lawyer on speed dial and we are tired of going to court. I have a million questions running through my head about what would or wouldn’t raise BM’s craziness levels. If you all want to answer a few of the questions I would appreciate it, if not it just feels good for me to write it down.

I am curious how do you do school functions with a blended family?

Ok, a little backstory:
My fiance and I have been together for almost 6 yrs now. Been to counseling,etc. I have a son 7, that I brought into this, he has 2 kids 8,13 that he brought into this and we had one daughter together-3. I am 28 and he is 36.

So, we're going to dinner with MIL and her BF Saturday night. :sick:

I can't stand her, and she doesn't like me. Never has. Yet, she pretends she's my best friend when we're together around other people. I know she's gonna be on the phone to everyone she can think of Sunday running me in the ground.

Thank god for southern comfort and cigarettes, I guess.

:O Help me please, I absolutely hate my stepdaughter. But, we did not start off very well anyway. Her mom is awful she was all the time taking us back to court every other week.

Here goes my rant......
I am a good step mom, I try to do all I can for sk and bio children...I try not to treat them different...but I also do not try to be sk's mom either, they have one of those. BM is a biotch....i have tried and tried to make nice with her so we all can get a long. I have met with her twice now for over 3.5 hours and every time i think all might be ok its NOT.

Funny how I put my own guilt on me. No one else has to do it.

I am checking to see if this can be deleted

SS28 did not grow up in this house, but he used to refer to the house where he and his BM and family lived as HIS house. DH and I were high school sweethearts almost 40 years ago. We split up, etc. each had lives -- his included 3 children, I had none. We got back together after DH was diagnosed with cancer and decided he no longer wanted to remain in his marriage -- that was 10 years ago. Children were 20, 18 and 16 at the time. 18 year old and 16 year old cussed me out, met their dad at the curb with BM and garbage bags of his stuff and told him they decided he got the other car.....