First of all, I am so frustrated right now that I kept quiet the entire morning. I've no one to share this frustration with thus this post.

Second of all, my SK doesn't hate me and I don't hate him. In fact, he thanked me once for being good to him and for taking care of him-- I appreciate that.

But I have complaints, too, like any other stepmoms out there.

I know the BM thinks SK is the perfect kid but I see otherwise. In fact, I haven't seen any kid who is as negative and as whiny as this kid. My DH is the most positive and happy man I've known so definitely, SK didn't get these attributes from his dad. If any, it should be from BM.

When we go on trips, I can stand some whining from him but most of the time he ends up whining for hours. Sometimes he'd go on this wild, frenetic behavior and will just scream out of nowhere and start crying especially when he's frustrated because my DH and I don't usually react to his complaints. (I must have done a great job putting on these imaginary earplugs or am I just THAT patient?) Our toddler is faaarrr better than him-- I mean, there's really no point of comparison, it's like day and night! He's also the most negative kid! He would never ever go with us on trips outside of the US and won't even bother stepping foot on any Asian country. He thinks Asia is disgusting, has lots of typhoons (which is true), and has lots of tsunamis (which is also true) and it's dangerous (not always true). He says it in a way that Asia is the Earth's cesspit of a hellhole. When I asked him who gave him that idea, he said, "My mom" -- well, what can I expect? The mother is like a walking oxymoron! She despises anything that is Asian. The irony is, she is PURE Asian and SK is also PURE Asian. Geez.

He also always says he doesn't want to do things that we'd like to do, like going for a Las Vegas trip. He'd say, "I don't like Las Vegas, I'd be bored there... there's nothing in there" but he'd go anyway and end up complaining in the car for more than an hour. And, when we were finally in Las Vegas, he'd find himself bowled over by so many exciting things to do and end up enjoying himself all day. Then he'll rave about Las Vegas for weeks. But then, when we think of going somewhere else again, like when we went to Paris, he'd be negative again and say things like, "What's in Paris? I don't like it there.... why do we have to go there?" and he'd end up complaining the entire flight.

Seriously, this kid needs to just shut up and be grateful. If it were not for DH, I won't even bother to invite him somewhere.

Here's another thing: SK is a shopaholic, but not in a cute way. He is a hoarder of all kinds of toys that he likes. When he's with us, there's never a day where he doesn't buy anything. Of course he buys using my money! He likes expensive items, like more than $100-kind-of-toys especially Legos. He has all of them and he doesn't even play with most of them (I mean, how can he possible play with them, he's probably confused which one to play with first!) and wants more. He would spend the whole day on Ebay and bid on Lego sets as if he's the son of a billionaire. He doesn't even know what auction means and how it works! He doesn't usually ask me to buy him stuff but when I feel like he desperately wants it and it only costs less than $5, I'd buy it. But for more expensive items, he'd usually approach DH and when DH is about to give in, i'd give him a dagger look. That's when he'll back off.

I don't know. I think this kid needs to change. He can be a great kid minus the negativity and his whiny attitude. I already talked to him about this and he agreed on behaving but now, here he goes again.

As I am typing this, he has already submitted his bid on 26 Lego sets. He's using my Ebay account but I already told him that I'm not paying for any winning bids. If he likes, he can pay me first then i'll pay for his Legos