Will DH cave to the skids and take them to the Taste of Colorado today? He already knows I don't want to go because I have the sunburn from hell and I'm super sore from my triathlon yesterday, which means he might not, but SS12 is being SUPER whiny and does not stop until he gets what he wants, so he might. He's in the shower, which indicates to me he might cave, but also told SS12 that he didn't want to take them because they haven't done a single thing he's told them to do all weekend, they fight non-stop, they both have a bad case of the smart-mouth, and SS12 is ALREADY behind on one of his school assignments (and SS12 informed DH that he should just be happy it got turned in AT ALL, even though it says it hasn't been, but he says he just turned it in late and it hasn't shown up in the grades yet...yeah right). The #1 reason I don't want to go is because of my bad burn (yes I applied sunscreen, but apparently not the right kind), but a VERY close second is the fact that I know the skids will act a total goat in public, like they always do. We weren't even out of the driveway last night before they started their crap, and the only reason I didn't just tell DH to turn off the vehicle and go back inside was because we were going out to dinner for carbs we just didn't have in the house, and I was having a blood sugar crash. I truly hate taking them into public places because they CAN NOT manage themselves at the ages of 12 and 14, and I'm afraid someone might mistake me for their mother and do the whole "why can't she control her kids in public" thing. Also because I won't do anything about them because I disengaged, that means DH will DEFINITELY be yelling at them at the top of his lungs without regard to my embarrassment level that he himself causes me because he has an anger-management problem. The skids have now come upstairs, fully dressed and seemingly ready to go somewhere, but as far as I know, DH hasn't told them definitively whether he's taking them anywhere, and I hope he doesn't because of the aforementioned reasons. Guess only time will tell...