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We had a recent snowstorm, and where i live, everything stops. Schools, government, roads, stores - all closed for a week. My SO had to remain at work from Monday until yesterday because of this, and SS14 and SS20 were at his house. Since i live only a few houses down, i promised SO i would look after them. I cooked for them, cleaned, and told SS14 that if he left to walk to a friend's house, please let me know.
Had to go to a customer's house today that was on the same street in the same village as Pumpkinhead's house (OSS28). I had never actually been by his house before... I just knew that he and his now wife purchased it about 3 years ago.
This post is lengthy and probably not clear. My mind is spinning so please bear with me.
SS12 visited this weekend. If you all remember, this visit was supposed to occur in February, but SS had a sport tournament, so BM unilaterally moved DH's parenting time to January to accommodate. DH and I didn't have any plans either weekend so we didn't fight it.
Ah, after months of SS18 and DH not talking much, all of a sudden SS is blowing up DH's phone. Funny how that works when he needs something.
Morningmia recently wrote a powerful post about kindness—specifically, the selfishless and thankless kindness that a stepparent gives to their skids. The kind of kindness that’s poured out endlessly, even when it’s met with nothing but resistance, indifference, or outright hostility.
The responses to her post were like a collective sigh of shared experience—a raw, honest summary of what happens when good people try to extend love and kindness to those who have no intention of reciprocating it, and in fact, wish them nothing but harm.
Praise be sweet mother of god, the Sdiablas have offically left the country. They hung around our home on and off over the Summer and Fall "like a fart that lingers." Since they are both transcient I was afraid they'd be stinking, I mean staying, over the Winter and Spring as well. It is a big relief that they are far, far away for at least a little while.
We had a nice telephone visit/catch-up with the SKid a few days ago. We covered a ton of topics in a casual banter filled conversation of nearly 2hrs.
We talked about just about everything. One thing that he touched on briefly was that he did not want his mom and me to ever move to SpermLand and if something happened to me he would not let his mom go back even to live near her own family. This was his position entirely and not at my behest. Though I completely agree with him.
Recent blogs/posts in here got me thinking about kindness.
My husband moved his adult son in with us full-time. I was told he was going to be pursuing a career/job etc. and that we were just temporarily helping him out on his journey. Instead, his son has been an absolute nightmare, doing nothing I was told he would do. At my insistence, he finally got a part-time job. However, he only works 15-20hrs per week MAXIMUM. Some weeks, he doesn't get called in at all.
Hey, all! It's been a while since I posted. Things remain where they were in that I'm pretty much disengaged with my adult SSs 30 and 29, and DH does all the gift-buying and coordinating gatherings, with dinner at a restaurant for birthdays (we pay for all) and Father's Day and Christmas Eve hosted at our lakehouse, where I try to do the minimum amount possible, realizing my own DSs are part of the mix and it's their holiday, too. This mainly applies to SS30, his wife, and 2 SGDs.
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