So we had a couple weeks off of insane drama. Or maybe it was one week. But back to the regularly scheduled program. BM insists that if DH cannot make one of his weekends for any reason, he is not allowed to reschedule with her, he must just skip and not see the kids for four weeks. Ok. We try to work within these demands, even when it is hard. Sometimes his job abruptly changes his schedule, and in the current situation, he is not comfortable or even ABLE to flip his work schedule around to accommodate biweekly visits. Once in a while he has to miss a weekend.

DH is visiting his kids this weekend. Called to tell me he was there safe and that both kids asked where I was, and said they had fun when I was there, and asked if me & my brother (their step-uncle?) would come visit next time (they get to play with my brother like he's another kid, they get along great). Then SS6 asked DH if we would have a baby, because he wants a baby sister. We haven't mentioned babies or future kids to the Skids because we figured it would be at least a year or two before we started having more kids, after the wedding and all. But it was sweet.

BM is frothing mad again, because she claims that the state sent her a statement to the effect that DH owes her $67 from last month. He has never missed a payment, it is taken directly from his paychecks-- at her insistence we do this, because she has this convoluted fantasy that DH is a deadbeat dad who has all but abandoned her and the kids! I really believe she wishes he *were* a deadbeat so she could feel vindicated and swan around being a giant martyr. Now, $67. Over a month.

Ok, just telling some stories now.... Once BM freaked out once because one of the little guys dressed himself and didn't put on underoos. We laid out the underpants, but little guy decided to go commando. This little guy is six, so he uses the potty by himself, we did not check to make sure he was wearing undies all day, but when we dropped him off BM found out and acted like we had committed some kind of child abuse!