Today would be the 6th week BM hasn't picked up her daughter. This past weekend, I visited my uncle who lives in the same town as her and I told DH to tell her I wouldn't mind bringing SD to her for that weekend. And she was so grateful to me. Yet for the past 5 years of my SD life she tries to say that I'm trying to take her place that I don't encourage her relationship with her daughter that I talk crap about her to SD. If that were true, I wouldn't have taken her there. I know SD loves her mom. I know she's her mom and I have nothing against that. But if she's in my care, I'm going to love her like my own. I love all SD friends like their my own so I'm not going to treat SD any different because her mom doesn't like it. But now I'm the good guy. Hopefully she sees now that no I'm not trying to take her place, I'm just trying to make her life stable and loving. Anyway she had fun with her mom but she told me she doesn't want to do that LONGGGGG ride anymore and she wishes her mom would just come to our town to visit lol.