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Easiest setting to deal with skids?

PoisonApples's picture

We have skids this weekend.

On the Tues/Wed before we have them I start trying to plan things to keep us away from home during the time they're here. I don't care what or where it is. I just dread the idea of being home with them there. I've found that it's better to be out somewhere. Maybe it's because when we're home I feel like I've lost control of my own home. Maybe if we're in the car or if they are doing some activity it's easier to tune them out. Maybe it keeps them from constantly having to be hanging on daddy.

BM doesn't want to help SD with her homework because she doesn't have "crafty" things at her house -- and we do.

SteppingUp's picture

We had SD5 and SS3 on Monday night. Fiance cleaned out SD's back pack and took out her "Take Home Folder" and looked through it, but forgot to put it back in her bag. We don't see SD until next Wednesday now.

What Would You Do?

pastepmomof3's picture

I'm debating with myself on what to do and need some input.

A month ago, BM1 send a mass email including DH about her and SD's involvement in a breast cancer walk that is taking place this coming weekend. I wanted to support SD so I put $25 in an envelope and DH gave it to BM1 during SD exchange. No big deal, right?

SD9 trying so effin hard to get daddy mad at me!

halfstepmom2skids's picture

I am as disengaged and it pisses the hell out of her. I bought all of the kids alarm clocks 2 yrs ago and told them it is a must that they all start waking themselves up. SD, of course, will not listen to me and do as i say so she didn't use it. She wakes up when she hears her brother, every effin day. Tuesday she had had enough of my and dh not fighting so she stirs her little witchy pot and asks DH to tell me to wake her up or get her another alarm clock. I took alarm clock out of her room cuz it was peeling the paint off of the stand it was on and she WASNT using it.

Counselling and CS triumph

Bojangles's picture

It's my day off! SD14 goes to BM's tonight so no school pickup right in the middle of the afternoon and maybe DH and I might actually have a couple of hours to ourselves this evening. Now that the honeymoon period has worn off when the change in SD's behaviour was a huge relief I have been having some adjustment issues getting used to the idea of having her here all the time. I miss my week off. However SD is back at school, is still behaving well, and has started counselling, which is a big relief. Now I don't feel like I am carrying so much of the weight of her issues on my shoulders.

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