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O/T - Birthing Classes

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Submitted by NotYourAverageS... on Wed, 04/17/2024 - 1:05pm

DH and I went to our first birthing class last night and it was good, but can't help feeling like we are taking advantage. My OB and the hospital I am going to be giving birth at is 35-40 minutes one way from our house. There isn't a closer OB within my insurance, but there are tons 35-50 minutes from our house. I am actually seeing an OB and a clinic that is REALLY hard to get in, but lucked out in the timing so I am able to see one of the best in the area. There is a hospital 15 minutes from my house, is actually the hospital I went to with my hospital visit in December 2023. 

BM blew up this weekend

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Submitted by NotYourAverageS... on Mon, 04/15/2024 - 10:36am

Not getting into all the details but BM made something that should of been a 10 on a scale of 100 and took it to 1,000. Then she started bringing up things from over 7 years ago and tried VERY hard to convince DH that she never cheated on him. Yes, even though she has walking, talking, and breathing proof of her older child proved not to be DH's by a DNA test. Not sure what her angle is on why she is trying to sell this so hard right now.

But BM is so delusional. Like what?

SD's school meeting

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Submitted by NotYourAverageS... on Thu, 02/29/2024 - 12:31pm

We had SD's meeting with the committee this morning to go over the evaluation and discuss next steps for SD. Both DH and I agree the meeting actually went really well. To start off with, BM was LATE and they started the meeting with just DH and I virtually. Stepdad was not present at the meeting and BM looked like she rolled out of bed. Between the school psychologist, special education teacher, SD's teacher, and the speech teacher, they were extremely thorough. 

BM must think we are stupid or clueless

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Submitted by NotYourAverageS... on Wed, 02/28/2024 - 1:22pm

Yesterday BM sent DH paragraph after paragraph of messages in regards to SD. She was asking DH for insight on some issues she has noticed and asking DH if he has heard of someone that is mentioned in SD's journal. BM was really sick over the weekend so SD's grandma took care of SD over the weekend. Apparently SD was really angry and upset with BM that someone besides BM was taking care of her. This is the second time in 6 months, maybe even less that BM has told DH that SD was really angry with her. Also, that SD is happiest when she is at home and gets upset with any schedule changes

SD's therapist got back to DH

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Submitted by NotYourAverageS... on Tue, 02/27/2024 - 10:34am

Apparently all this behavior stuff outside of the anger and jealousy is new news to the therapist as well. BM has never mentioned the other things she mentioned in the paperwork before SD's evaluation. Receiving this information from DH, the therapist will now talk to SD's teacher to find out more information and working with SD's care manager to "develop the best plan of action." As we figured, the therapist could not share much more information, but was appreciative of DH reaching out and she will be addressing all these issues she was unaware about.

Switching Spring and Fall Break

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Submitted by NotYourAverageS... on Mon, 01/29/2024 - 3:36pm

DH asked BM to consider switching this year's spring break (which DH gets every year) with fall break (upcoming in October 2024). The main reason for this request was because the day SD would fly back would be Easter and we did not want SD to fly on a holiday instead of spending it with family. So that means unless we requested BM to take SD to the airport after school on the Friday kicking off spring break, then we would only have SD for one weekend day. We all know how SD has missed so many flights so it would be highly unlikely SD would make the Friday flight.

Blog Hog - Homework Question

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Submitted by NotYourAverageS... on Thu, 01/11/2024 - 4:34pm

So this question can be answered about your bios or skids, but when either bios or skids were in first grade did you check over their homework and have them correct things that were wrong or did you let them get things wrong on homework? I remember in elementary school that I would do my homework and then one of my parents would check over it and tell me to revisit what was wrong until I got it right. If SD was here at our house, that would be how DH and I would handle it.

Rollercoaster

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Submitted by NotYourAverageS... on Mon, 12/18/2023 - 12:35pm

Wednesday night, I was taken by ambulance to the hospital and admitted until Thursday late afternoon. Make a long story short, it was either a complicated migraine that resulted in nuerological effects or a TIA. We are waiting to get the blood work back this week that will either prove it was a TIA or that it was not. Let's just say SUPER FUCKING SCARY and luckily DH was home. I ended up going unconscious, lost control of my right side of my body, and was unable to speak coherently. On top of that, I will share that tomorrow I will be 7 weeks pregnant.

BM being difficult about calls

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Submitted by NotYourAverageS... on Fri, 09/22/2023 - 2:23pm

I have posted on here many many times about how BM is difficult to schedule calls with SD. Well, she's back at it again. DH backed off the number of calls a bit for the last year because of how difficult it was scheduling calls, but now DH is trying to go back to the number of calls he used to make which is the same amount of calls/frequency BM made all summer long. This is now the second weekend in a row that BM is being extremely difficult to schedule a call.

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