I have been told by many parents that little boys can be gross. However, when I find my 6 yo SS wiping his snotty nose on things I flip out. I can handle a lot of things in life but boogers are not one of them! Actually what irks me the most is that he is a perfectly healthy little boy who was just too lazy to get off his duff and go blow his nose. The idea that a child is too lazy to walk 6 feet and take care of business just makes me mad.

Foolish to think things would be better. SS10 comes back from his 8 week stay with his Mom. He is two-faced , lazy, and self-entitled as usual. Of course he comes back with hugs and "I love you so much. I missed you so much." I roll with it and return the sentiments (even though that's not the way I feel, but I am hopeful). Mother-in-law comes to visit one day after SS10 gets back. Three days into the visit, MIL mentions that SS10 said we are mean to him because we make him eat fruit. Seriously? Whenever he can get anyone alone he plays a whiny victim.

He's so different from my MIL, no wonder they got divorced.
I know at least I'll have fun!

if you havent read my recent blogs, here's the low down: dh was called in the middle of the night to come get his son9 and his other "son"6 because cps was removing all the children from bm's care. this happend on the night i told dh that i did not want to be with him anymore. he agreed to leave in the a.m. i couldnt quite kick dh and the kids out after being taken from their home, so...

I have to wonder if this is part of normal parenting or if I am feeling this way because I am the "Step" parent.

Friday, SS11 was a wonderful child and I couldn't ask for more harmony in the home, but today is Sunday and I can't stand his attitude, mannerisms or snide remarks. Today he got hot sauce in his mouth for telling DH "no way I will do it how I want to!" ... from a normally well mannered child this was shocking.

Some Venting:

It would appear that everything i say and ask him to consider when it comes to his kids is falling on deaf ears. We had another fight this morning because he rang me and said "i have the kids tonight can you get them from school" I already knew this was what he was calling for because he never rings me during the day unless i have his kids or he wants me to get his kids for him.

I want to thank everyone for their thoughts about this. I should explain that I don't see anything wrong with a son asking his mother for a dance at his wedding-- that's perfectly normal and understandable. I suppose it's the way in which he did this. He swooped in on the two of us, yelling, "Mamma!" and whirled my wife away, leaving me standing there empty-handed. I dunno. In light of the history of the tense relationship between this SS and myself, I think that this is a tad insensitive and impolite.

My fiancé received a text message from a number every month or so on certain days, like fathers day, Easter, valentines day, st patty, etc. He also got one inviting him to a couple of events at a bar. He didn't know who was person texting and he never text back to ask. It didn't bother me because when we first met we agreed to delete all the past bf or gf or people of that nature. Also, the text messages were so random and only on those days that it wasn't a big deal. However, yesterday he gets a text from the same number and it says "hi it's Brenda.

Princess has only been at university for 2 weeks and felt the need to come home. After arguing with her dad on the phone, I was thinking she wouldn't, but she did.

She pretty much ignored me. I tried to talk to her and ask her about classes, but she always managed to change the subject back to her dad, or her phone would beep so she'd answer it instead. Whatever. I tried. At least she was tryig to patch things up with her dad.