Never in a million years would I have ever thought this was even possible from that group of toothless morons.  But... they surprised me,

We headed to SpermLand  a week ago this past Saturday to visit with my ILs.  Our kid was in the States for a week following his TDY to Colorado Springs and took a week of leave to hang with his mom and I.  

The main purpose of the trip to SpermLand was to meet our new twin nieces.  BIL1 and his wife are adopting twin 9yo girls adding to the two biodaughters they already have (14 and 10).  They have been respite care foster parents for these twins for two years when their fulltime foster parents need a break.   But.. that is a story for later.

After a family gathering on Sunday to meet the twins our son arranged to spend the day with the SpermClan on Monday.  He had a lot of anxiety about seeing them but told his mom and I that he would "feel like an asshole if he did not at least spend a few hours with them".  His plan was to only spend a couple of hours with them then for his mom and I to pick him up at SpermGrandHags. He and his sister (Spermidiot spawn #2) set up that we would drop him off at her home and they would go to SpermGrandHag's to surprise her.   Apparently SpermGrandHag and her daughter stalk my FB page since as my kid says "Dad talks about everything".  They knew he was in the US but was only going to be free for a week and did think that there was time for him to visit with then since he was in Texas with us.

So, we dropped him off at his sister's (22) house at 9AM and  they went to SpermGrandHag's and surprised her.  He also surprised SpermGrandPa who pretty much just said hello and never left the garage.  His usual level of not engaging with our son.  SGH called the kid's two younger brothers (19 & 20) and they came right over.  She also called the Spermidiot and invited him over as well.  He asked why he would want to do that and asked what was going on.  She handed the phone to the kid who said "Because I am only going to be here for a few hours you turd".  

Surprisingly the Spermidiot headed over to his mothers to visit with his kids.   Apparently he rarely does this.  His daughter detests him and my kid only tolerates him though the two youngest kids like him and enjoy time with him.

As it turned out... the kid was with them all day and they had a nice time together.  All of the kids and their Spermidiot played croquet, talked and messed around.  The Spermidiot left after a few hours but our son reported that he "seemed happy and reasonably well adjusted" though he did go through a sizable bag of weed during the day.  Not illegal in SpermLand but .... what POS does that crap in front of his mother and children?

He met us back at our hotel at about 9PM and spent a solid hour recounting the day.   SpermGrandHag was talking to SS and his sister about their "father".  

*bad* 

I throw up in the back of my mouth every time that thought enters my brain....  SGH was talking about how the only girlfriends that DickHead ever had that were any good were my Skid's mother and  a lady named Ruth.   She was complementary of my wife periodically throughout the day.  This was extremely interesting to me considering she used to battle with my bride constantly and go into cursing and screaming banshee mode fairly regularly during the CO years.

There was no discussion of the adoption which my son was worried about.

I am thrilled that my son had a great time with them and that they kept their usual manipulative tendencies contained.

I won't hold my breath that this is the new normal, but it made me one happy dad that my son enjoyed his visit with that part of his family and they put together an entire day with him without drama.

Stay tuned for the update on the IL clan.  Nothing has changed with the usual drama players in that group.

I will update between housework and job interviews.