Long story short-Ss9 has been throwing fits about going to bed at our house for 6 MONTHS!!! Granted he's only here every other weekend....however he winds up keeping ME and my BS10(whose room he sleeps in while he's here) up for a good 2-3 hours every night he's here....then he wakes up at 6am every morning like he's done no wrong! And really-why not?

I have decided to be as sweet as can b to my Skids-while at the same time treating them as I would the neighbor kids....not sure if that is considered fully disengaging or not-I'm still speaking to n playing with them....just have completely let go of all parenting n discipline rolls....or I'm trying to I guess....since they decide to play the "SM is mean to me n I don't know y she hates me...." card on both my husband n BM (not feeling the "darling" at the moment!!!

So....DH is staying home from work this week bc I am expecting to go into labor pretty much any day now....he also has family coming into town this weekend-so we were supposed to get the skids for the day on Sat since BM threw a fit about switching weekends as in the past three months she has only had them for 5 weekends bc she has been accommodating n scheduling wise-that's just how it has worked out....while I love those kids-they do not listen-it is extremely stressful to have them here n DH let's a lot of stuff slide bc he "doesn't want to ride their butts the whole time they r with us"