THIS IS REALLY UPSETTING!

So, inregards to ss23, I got this email from my FIL...

Ok so yesterday I got home around 5:30 after picking up my two older ones from school. I was surprised to see my SO home because lately he is hardly home before 8pm. He wasn't feeling so good so he came home and sent the babysitter home and he stayed with the younger two. The younger two are ages 4 and 2 ( practically 3). The four year old told my SO that for christmas he should buy me two rings and a white dress so we can get married. lol. He asked why two rings? The four year old said because...... I swear I did not brain wash him or train him to say those things.

Well, I went out for a drink/date with one of my dearest friends' coworkers last night. Very nice guy, accomplished, down-to-earth, not fixated on his two daughters (ok, just two daughters set a flag waving) but soon into the convo (we're talking first ten minutes here) he tells me he was woken by a knock on his door first thing...and he is getting summoned to court by his ex wife for more CS.

I played it cool and didn't say too much -- he went on to say he has a "crazy ex wife with mental health issues".

I recently wrote a post about my annoyance with my SD10 and one of the responders tried to explain that children will be children and that it seems like most SMs dislike the skids and are annoyed by what they do just because of the fact that they are skids.

If this is true, then I have to wonder what it contributing to those feelings because I can't imagine that every SM who has difficulty liking their skids is a horrible person at heart and thats the reason liking their skids is hard.

If I could make changes to how i lived life i wouldn't have taken a second glance at him after knowing he had a child and an ex wife.I wouldn't have let the curl of his hair or the sparkle in his eyes lead me down a path i already knew was ripe with rotten attitudes and competition.I wouldn't have been turned on by his round butt and his lean frame.I wouldn't have been seduced by the sweet words falling from his beautiful mouth.Had I known then what I know now I would have walked away to meet the man I cancelled on to meet DAH.These men should have to take a lie detector test given by curre

FSD17 is graduating from high school at the end of May. FDH and I have offered to take her and a friend on a cruise as a graduation present. FDH told her to decide which friend she wanted to take and to let us know by the end of the week so we could book the cruise. This was 2 weeks ago and we have not heard from her AT ALL. This morning, FDH receives a text from BM saying that FSD needs lunch money and hasn't had any for 2 weeks. WHY can't FSD call or text to let us know that? Why hasn't she let us know ANYTHING about the cruise? Is the cruise not good enough for her?

ok so as you know sd14 is grounded for all her lies over the last year. the weekend before she got grounded dh promised them that he would let them go to the school dance this year if we got enough notice. bm calls this morning....school dance is tomorrow, WTF! that is progress i'll have to admit :sick: okok bm said she found out yesterday when the school told the girls....couldn't she have called us YESTERDAY??? :? I guess it's still better than the morning of like last year :sick:

Starfish's blog got me thinking, what is everyone's criteria for skids (or bios) staying home sick from school?

My SO got the shock of a lifetime, one of the very few stands that I have taken with him was about sick days. As it turns out if I hadn't SD6 would have had at least 10 by now, daddykins is such a damn sucker. Probably about eight days or so into the school year, SD started faking a cough before SO left for work in the morning. He comes out of her room and says, "SD is sick, she needs to stay home." I said uhhh wait a minute....

Vickmeister sent me a link on dealing with bipolar spouses/family members. It was quite enthralling! I'm not a big believer in today's psycho babble or all these "syndromes" that to me are synonymous with plain old bad behaviour ESPECIALLY in spoiled children, however, it gives some interesting communication techniques.