That's all changed with SO and SD.....
Sick, snotty child sleeps with clothes on.
Spits medicine on me.
Smiles up at me, naked on toilet this morning.
Calls me at work to tell me daddy gave her a bath as instructed.

(Should change my screen name to Not a Bm)

Francesca

I watched Teen Moms on MTV the other night. One of the characters (Macy) said this to her son's baby daddy.

"I would love to keep you away from him but I would never keep him away from you!" She was expressing her feelings of how the baby daddy was not someone she wanted to be around her son but that her son deserved to have a relationship with his daddy.

ok so bm had custody of skids 9 and 6. dh was never really around to help me after work with our two babies dd3 and ds6 months. i work full time and would get them from daycare and care for them, cook and clean until bed. i am the only one to wake up and feed the baby during the night. dh would go to a friends house everday after work and not come home until everyone was already in bed most nights. he gets off early on fridays and instead of helping me out and getting the kids he would just go hang out. also, he gets rainouts, never once did he go get our kids, he would let me do it all.

This weekend there is a great Fall Festival in my hometown and the weather is supposed to be BEAUTIFUL...unfortunately this is also SCIENCE PROJECT WEEKEND for SD11....uuuuugggghhhhh.

I have recently resolved to stop being pleasant to BM having realised that after SEVEN YEARS BM still hates me as much as ever and is never going to give me a break. At the moment BM is on a permanent holiday in Denial convincing herself that SD does not really have serious emotional problems, so she won't have to accept any responsibility. I have identified a theme, BM is also in Denial when it comes to accepting any responsibility for her marriage ending. Funnily enough it seems that everything is my fault.

Can someone please tell me if it's at all possible to have his ex-wife change her last name or even use her Maiden & then his last name???

The thing that I don't understand is that when you get divorced (even when there's kids involved), why would you want the last name of someone that you're not married to?

It's embarassing on the new wife ... I always have to explain myself and/or the situation.

:?

This was going to be our first weekend EVER, ONLY taking my fiance's son. As most of you know, we have always also had SS3's older sister even though SD5 is not my fiance's daughter. We felt pretty good about this change (which occurred because SD's bio father changed his weekends and is now taking her on the weekends when we have SS...it's really how it SHOULD have always been). We are looking forward to having some one-on-one time with SS3 who is now becoming much more independent from his older sister (who very much enjoys bossing him around and telling him how to play).

I have seen a lot of posts about SM's who communicate quite a bit with BM. I see how some SM's talk/text BM about SK's info, activities, exchanges, school, etc etc..Why do you do this?

I love husband dearly. He's really fun to be around. But sometimes, maybe 2x a year a wonder how my life would have been had I not married him since he has a daughter. I have even thought of divorcing him because his daughter is sooo annoying. She don't wanna share anything but expects everyone to share everything with her. She will turn to Nickelodeon and hide the remote so thaat no one else can change the channel. She always expects dad to buy her gifts every other weekend (I put a stop to that). She interrupt when dad is talking to anyone else but her.

I slept horribly last night. I woke up in the middle of the night due to a horrible nightmare and my heart was pounding. I dreamt the court was taking SD3 away from BF and BF was crying. It scared me and I was really rattled this morning. BF isn't as shattered as he was after reading the report yesterday. He says it's not a loss for us and not a win for her. He's pretty confident that with the right statement to the court they will hit her pretty hard.