I contacted our attorney today and asked what child support covers in our state, He informed me that EVERYTHING my stupid husband is paying for out of pocket is covered for by the child support we pay. We get them a hair cut every month - that's covered, my husband says that if we don't get them a hair cut BM isn't going to spend money on getting them one. Shoes , coats, snow pants and winter boots are all covered. School supplies every year are covered.

My SD has been living with us for the past 2 1/2 years. She is 32 years old. I am 43. Her father is 10 years older than me. Her father and I have 3 children of our own who are at home as well. I cant handle living with another woman in my house much longer. My husband only sees his daughter and NOT another woman. I am a sinking ship. She is taking over my home. She even calls my children "honey" when she speaks to them. Like she is there mother. She is always in competition with me for her father's attention. She thinks when he comes home from work she she get a hello kiss too!

Hi,

I have 2 bio sons.... age 20 and 22. I saved and have been fairly frugal and raised them the last 7 years pretty much with little financial support from their father. One is in the military with a college degree and the other is in college. I support them and saved for their tuition.

I was happy to see them. They spent most of the summer at their grandma's (of course BM failed to ask DH if that was okay--her mom lives several hours away and the CO states that both parents need to agree if the kids are taken out of the county). Despite that, they had a lot of fun up there and seemed a little less at each others' throats stir-crazy this weekend.

FH and I just did a flea bomb and flea bath and advantage drops as well as flea collars (yes, we have a problem) and Skids say BM's house has fleas as well. Are we just going to have to live with fleas until BM gets her problem taken care of also, or is there a flea proof flea treatment? We've done this routine twice now and they come back... there's no way they're living through it so it's definitely that they're coming back on the Skids. Anyone else had a problem like this? What can we do??

Everything feels so up in the air today. Bf read his note yesterday evening and didn't seem the least phased by it. Even made some friendly conversation until ss returned home and found his note. Ss was furious and stomped out to complain to his dad. First time I've ever seen daggers literally popping out of ss's eyes (he's generally plays the "ain't I so cute and wuvable?" passive aggressive type). I walked in my room and slammed the door shut, so don't know what they talked about or how it went. Bf made no further effort to converse with me and slept on the couch again last night.

I thought my son was kidding when he mentioned that SD15 was now a bleach blonde. I finally saw it on Facebook this morning and can not believe BM let her do this and probably paid for it. Holy Cow....She has very dark brown beautiful hair. At least she did. What is next that BM is going to let her do. BM is a brunetter that is very blonde, but even she is not this bleach blonde. BM has had the breast augmentation so I am starting to wonder if that is next. I know SD wants tattoos and piercing. They already did the cartilidge at the top of the ear for her 15th birthday.

I will try to start at the beginning of his bad behavior... so we were in the process of relocating from CA to AZ... being 4 months pregnant, packing proved to be very tiresome since I was doing a lot of it alone in a house that has no AC. The day before we leave, I complain to SH (stupid husband) about how some of the items he has in the house (aka the hundreds of stuffed animals) should be donated. SH had been worried about whether there would be enough space in the trailer he had rented. I told him there would be no reason to bring all those stuffed animals and to give some away.

Not to blog hog but I need some more info. FDH fought for joint custody but in our state it is VERY rarely awarded. They want one person to have primary custody. However, their visitation was ALMOST 50/50, so it's called "extended visitation".

FDH texted me this morning and said, "Can you do some research for me on what the benefits are for us having extended visitation?" I said, "Uh...none!" He said, "Like legally? I always feel like BM is running the show...does she really truly have all that power?"

Yesterday ended our first straight week with SS3 now that we've moved to EOW schedule. The week was great for us, and for BM. We had a very nice time with SS and he was a VERY good boy for us. BM partied all week....literally EVERY night, according to her facebook. Yesterday afternon, FDH called BM to see when she wanted to take him. No response. Text. No response. 2 hours go by. Call, text, no response. We had no idea where she was or what the plan was and it was 6:30, so FDH ran to the store to get some food to grill.