A few weeks ago I posted about how I had picked up the slack for BM and had been running all the kids to and from summer camp nearly every day. Well Saturday morning BM came over to pick up my 2 SS. They had been with us for a while since we went on a week long vacation. Well BM asked DH if I was home and he said yes and called for me to come to the entry way. She hands me a little gift bag with a gift card in it and says "Thanks for all your help with the boys this summer and for all the driving around that you did. I really appreciate it." I nearly fainted!!!

My 6 year old SD is really difficult to deal with lately. She used to adore me, but she came home from a vacation with her mother and then stopped interacting with me completely. She doesn't speak to me, she doesn't say hello and she basically acts like I am not in the room UNLESS her father is not around, and then she grudingly will engage if I try to get her to speak.

My bride and I celebrated our 16th anniversary on July 30. It was a good day. We spent the day with my mom, dad brother and his family all at mom and dad's. Mom was in GrandMa heaven with both of her boys, DILs and three of her four grandkids. Our son is on his last court ordered visitation and was not with us though we did talk to him.

We all went to dinner at the Oasis, had TexMex, good rita's and watched an amazing sunset.

She went from worshipping her mother to being afraid of her. BM has put her on a pedastle her entire 8 years of life and has created a level of insecurity in SD8 that im not sure the poor kid can come back from. SD8 was SO excited to get her hair cut Friday night and it came out so beautiful and she loves it! Couldnt wait to tell her BM and in turn her BM told her that if she had anymore than 2 inches cut off she would "freak" and be really "mad". Who the eff does this to their kid? She didnt get a mowhawk, nor is her hair blue!

So I haven't seen DH since Friday AM. He's been camped at MIL's trying to figure out how to cover his backside. I did speak to him last night and was amazed.......Now check this out. DH's mother, both brothers, their wives and a couple of people I don't even know were all assembled to as DH says 'Figure this thing out".

I am 21 will be 22 soon. I am dating a man who is 31 and has three kids. I just found out there might be two more but their mom just told him they may not be his and will not let him see them any more. I do not have any kids and I'm not sure whether I should stay with him. I love him I do not have problems out of either baby mama and the kids are still warming up to me and the youngest one I love dearly he has really come around and gotten use to me. They have not disrespected me as of yet.

My SD is driving me insane, between BM gouging my fiancé for 70% of all school expenses and SD's attitude I feel like I'm gonna lose it! SD decided last night while she was "bored" that she was going to tear all the decoration on my 5 year old daughters bike and think its not a big deal. I told her that we don't ruin her belongings so what gives her the right to ruin others?! This child is a MAJOR pain in my ass, we have her 50% of the time and a lot of that time her father is at work and I have to deal with her stupid ass.

I really don't know where to start on this one. We kept hearing his ex complain about money so we told her to go to csr we got the papers sent them back verdict; she makes 40,000/ year he makes 23,000 and still has to pay 400 a month for cs plus he pays for another kid which is 300 a month so that leaves me with supporting him while he supports them. Did I mention we have a two yr old at home who is the one losing out. Neither his ex or their daughter go without anything! She asked for a iPad for bday a kid that asks for stuff like that is not a kid that goes without its a spoiled brat!

Chapter 4. So here we are stuck in this kind of hell. No one should live under these conditions. SS1 was supposed to go back to BM full time last summer, SS1 raised such a fuss that DH let him stay. I almost left DH then, but damn it, I really love this guy and I know he loves me to.

Just putting it out there!

I'm a a young Step Mum, and we have the kids Wednesday nights and EOW... my skids are lovely kids but they are 7SD and 10SS so of course there is a few hick ups but they are normally pretty good.

i don't have any kids of my own so the only experience i have to reflect on is my own up bringing.
but, on school nights the kids still seem to be up at 10.30pm and a fight to get them to bed at 11pm!!.. and they are 7 and 10?

to me when i was younger it was 8.30pm -9pm AT THE LATEST!