We had SD5 and SS3 on Monday night. Fiance cleaned out SD's back pack and took out her "Take Home Folder" and looked through it, but forgot to put it back in her bag. We don't see SD until next Wednesday now.

I saw the folder sitting on the counter, told DF that we need to get that back in SD's bag somehow, whether BM wants to pick it up or if we want to bring it to daycare or whatever. So I started looking through the stuff in it, and saw that there is a homework assignment that is due THIS Friday (DF had seen it but of course not read the instructions!), which means it's even more important for SD to get it quick so she and BM can work on her homework this week.

Fiance called BM last night, BM came over and picked up the folder, and DF let her know that there's a homework assignment in it.

This morning, fiance got a call from BM. She is mad at us that we didn't do SD's homework on Monday night. Here's the clincher -- her excuse for being mad at us for it is that WE have crafty-things at our house and she doesn't.

The homework assignment is to decorate a (paper) pumpkin by dressing it up in a Halloween costume. It says to use things around the house that you find so they can hang up the pumpkins in their 'costumes' in the classroom. So BM seems to be refusing to help SD with this project because she doesn't have "crafty" things at her house (apparently she has come to understand that I do, which is true, and I gladly would have done the project with her on Monday night but I didn't know about it).

The point is, once again, BM is trying to get out of doing something that involves PARENTING just because it is the slightest hassle for her.