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Ack! I have court butterflies!
I'm so nervous. DH has court tomorrow to finalize the custody order. It's not that I'm worried so much that his having sole custody of the skids will change, it's some of the other things we want that are thrown in I'm worried about.
I won't go into details about all of them, but the big one is having BM sign away nearly $30k in child support arrears.
Now hold on a minute, I know that sounds crazy at first, but those arrears aren't justified.
I'll break it down:
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BM wants more time with the kids
A couple of days ago, DH told me that BM talked to him and told him she wants more time with the kids. He said she actually told him, "Well, think about it. Talk to stepmasochist about it and see what you think." Wow. She thought of me.
We've had custody of skids for over a year now. Right now she gets them EOW - they ride the bus to her house after school Fridays and ride back to school from her house on Monday, and Thursdays overnight.
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SD10 got her first punishment from me this morning *long*
Well, I've really only reprimanded her before. But this weekend, the little snot decided to test my limits.
FH and I are getting married soon, like very soon. We're trying to get everything ready for the wedding and my mom drove from 4 hours away to help me this weekend. The reception site needs some major cleaning as it's a space that's not used that often and has been close for a while in a place with some pretty harsh elements.
HPV vaccine - BM INFORMED, not consulted us about getting it for SD10
When I was picking up the skids yesterday from MIL's house where they go after school, BM drove up behind me. She said tell FH that in the next couple of days I'm going to be taking SD10 to get start the Gardasil vaccine. She said, "She's old enough to get it now and since it runs in both sides of the family I think it's a good idea."
Uh, what part of FH having sole custody does she not get? Obviously, she doesn't get the part about him having the end all, be all say on skids receiving ANY medical services.
What do you do to monitor/limit/censor your kids or skids media consumption?
Another blog about the song "Lips of an Angel" got me to thinking. I'm not a total prude about what skids 5, 8, and 10 watch or listen to, but I do try my best to safeguard their innocence. Kids seem so oversexed these days. We don't have cable tv. We have netflix and buy DVDs and rent movies and exchange DVDs with friends and family. So, the skids, FH and I get more than enough boobtube time. I'm actually glad that we don't have cable.
Oh my, did I shame BM into being a mom?
So, the skids came back from their month of summer visitation with their mom on Sunday. During her time with them, they had soccer sign ups for the fall on two Saturdays. I asked the skids if their mom signed them up or if I needed to do it.
They said, BM told them that they filled up so skids wouldn't be able to play soccer this year. "Ya, she said they filled up by noon."
I just said, "oh really? I'll have to call about that."
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The most freeing words I ever speak ...
Someone posted about muttering to themselves "Not my problem. Not my problem." or something to that effect and it made me think of something I find myself saying fairly often.
The three most freeing words I ever say to the skids: "Go ask daddy."
I use it over and over again to great effect. If I'm sick of whining and feeding them and everything else, it's so simple - I pawn it all off on the real parent for a while.
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FH's ex-MIL gives us a reason to laugh
This woman is such a piece of work. Lets call her "lard bat" because she's a stupid, fat, batsh!t crazy blob. Needless to say, FH loathes lard bat. Only his dislike for BM equals it. She once took oldest SD when she was just a baby and hid her from FH. And I truly believe she's the reason BM is the way she is. I mean, who lets a 14 year old girl hang out in sailor bars getting drunky with grown men returning from a six month cruise???
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Mother's Day article
I've been busy this week so I haven't had a chance to post this until now. It came out in last weekend's edition. I ended up having to change the subject of the feature from a stepmom raising three kids to this lady because the stepmom called me after she agreed to it and said she thought it wouldn't be a good idea because the BM would get mad (heh, go figure).
A mother by choice -
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Mother's Day SM interview - Need help with questions please???
So, I'm writing a feature for mother's day about a stepmother who is not a bio-mom who is raising her three stepkids. I found a lady to feature in the article, it's one of SS5's teachers. I'm interviewing her this afternoon at 3pm.
I was wondering if you have any suggestions for questions so that I can get the full stepmom story out of her and make a nice mother's day story about a non-biomom in a mom role.