Seriously, should I present the steamy pile with a garnish on the side ?
I'd rather not know if I have a choice.
SS19 announced that he got a job offer last week, we finally can get off his back, what he didn't tell his was, that is a part time job. I was in the same conversation, found that out when he was telling his aunt about the job, talked to DH this morning, he didn't know that either.

I just ordered two books:

The Single Girl's Guide to Marrying a Man, His Kids, and His Ex-Wife : Becoming A Stepmother With Humor And Graceby Sally Bjornsen

and

Enlightened Stepmother : Revolutionizing the Roleby Perdita K. Norwood , Teri Wingender , Perdita Kirkness Norwood , Teri Wingender

I am not sure at what point in these past few months I came to this resolution but somehow I have finally gone from anger and hatred to pity and sorrow for BM. Perhaps this is because it is exhausting and stupid to stay angry forever?

As if it wasn't bad enough that my husband died 24 days ago....

His father, has broken into our house at least twice. There may have been more times, but I've only caught it twice. I can't call the police, because there are no witnesses and they wouldn't be able to do anything anyways because of that fact. He admitted to the first time, but he wouldn't own up to it any subsequent time. He is pathological and scary. I hate this man...

I just posted this in the parenting issues forum, but then realized it doesn't get as much "foot traffic", so I thought I'd try a blog post instead...

Look, i know there is no way to reason with crazy people but an explanation as to there behaviour would suffice... someone please help!!

My sd15 just celebrated her BD and I found out by DH that she was going to another city on Thursday AM with DH sister I don't consider her my sil as she and BM are still the best of friends. Which basically they are both back biting well I will leave it at that... So I didn't know that DH was taking the skds away for the weekend and oh if I would like to come along I can but, if you don't go then don't take any money out of the bank account because we don't have any.... We have already purchased tickets for sd15 to go to a concert 2 weeks away but, the sil has this all planned out..

This was the response DH got when he asked BM#2 for the schedules for SS's activities.

I know, right? WTF?! Below is the conversation:

So today was a nice fall day. DH and SS13 and I decorated the house with Halloween stuff, we went out and bought some pumkins and bails of hay to put outside to make it look good too. I figured it might be a good idea if I made them a nice roasted chicken dinner with all the fixings to put a nice end to our weekend. Keep in mind that SS13 useally eats different food then us at dinnertime bc he is such a fussy eater also he is impatient so he useally eats dinner before we eat our meal.

It's not a big deal really. Every so often I just feel so fed up and depressed about it all. I hate living with SD17. Her original plan was to leave 2 years ago, then it was Summer 2011 and now it appears it might be after she goes to college for another ?? years.