I was wondering if anyone else hates buying Christmas gifts for their SK's. DH and I had a fight becasue he couldnt' give two s*its what I get for any of the kids for Christmas EXCEPT for his oldest child (11). He wants to get her a laptop and has been harrassing me about ordering it several times a day for a week now. I dont want to get if for her because, out of all of the kids, she is the most ungreatful brat! She's lazy, rude and just plain snotty.

So, this year I am being a Grinch of sorts….

I didn’t want to put up a tree, I didn’t want to do any festive decorating…I just wasn’t feeling it. Then my SD11 says, “But I want a tree here!” So, the DH gets the tree and we put it up. No decorations yet. We are selling our house, so much of our things are boxed away and it’s a hassel to get them out, but I decide yeah I will decorate it’s the holidays. He then tells me he will get the decorations out this weekend and the skids can help me…I reply: NO.

Dear BM,

I want you to know how much I despise you. I hate you. I actually HATE you with a deep passion. You disgust me. Everything you do and say is either fake or a lie. You're a loser, and you always will be. You're a very sick, immature, little girl. You have a lot of growing up to do.

So, DH finally got to go to the parent-teacher conference after it was rescheduled twice due to snow.

For those of you who participated in the crazy long thread last week regarding my stepmom not attending my baby shower, I thought I'd update you quickly to tell you what ended up happening.

Firstly, my shower was AMAZING. My sister is soooo great...I wish every single person I invited had been able to attend because it was a ton of fun!

so SS17 has decided against going to college because his mom said he should go somewhere closer (he was only going an hour away) because she'll miss him!!!!!!! he won't hear going to community colleges or anything online to get a start, he will just continue to buss tables at the pizza place he's currently working.
he told me this and i wanted to drive to that bitches house and punch her in the face!!
WHY WHY WHY would you do this to your child?!?!?!? back the fuck off and let him further himself so that he's not a scum sucker like you!!!!!!!!!

I have been looking at magazines (Better Homes and Gardens, etc) and they always have these PERFECTLY decorated trees. In some of these houses, there are children living there. Do you think in a back room they have a "secret" tree that has all of the construction paper Santas and clothespin Rudolph's that their kids made? LOL

I would LIKE to have a tree like that, but I have all of this stuff that the kids made when they were little, ceramic ornaments, stuff like that. D

o some of you do two trees?

Well, I have managed to once again get on my bride's shit list.

She was ranting this AM about how we have been in the new house for two and half months now and it is still not put together completely and how the Skid and I do not help, etc, etc, etc.... I was sleeping when she started the loud drawer closing so I rolled over and put a pillow over my head and pretty much just heard muffled bitching from that point on. BAD MOVE RAGS!!!!

I read so much more in the winter than I do in the summer. Now that it is freezing outside and I avoid leaving the house if I can I'm trying to decide what to read next and if I am going to go with something new or a favorite. My all time favorites are To Kill A Mockingbird and Gone With The Wind. I read TKAM about once a year but the "Wind" is so long I don't read it annually.

What are your favorite books?

So I talked to dh, I told him how I felt about Thanksgiving, and how it went down.