If you've followed my blogs over the past few days, you'll know that FDH is in the process of getting a new job. It's more money, less stress, a 401K, health package, etc. The issues are that he has to leave for a 4 week training in a city 4 hours away, although he can come home on the weekends. Also his schedule will change with the skids a bit. Yes the training will suck...but it's temporary.

He called BM last week to see how perceptive to change she was. She was all on-board and went on and on about her friend who works for the company and how fast he moved up and even told FDH that if we have to do a week-by-week schedule she's fine with that as long as she knows a week in advance what hte sched will be. We were like HOLY CRAP! This will be an easy change if she's perceptive to the change.

So today he calls her to tell her when the 4 week training will start because he's been offered the job officially. BM FLIPPED OUT. She said there's "NO way I'll support this. The kids LOVE their schedule and we've been on it for 2 years now and it's working for us. We can't change it now. And you CANNOT be gone for a whole month! That's ridiculous." (Keep in mind, our schedule was put into place bc of FDH's position two positions ago, which was sort of random nights/mornings. So we have them random nights every other week rotating and every other weekend. The skids don't know who's house they're going to each night and it's lots of chaos.)

FDH told her it's not like he's leaving for a vacation...it's a job training and eventually/hopefully a better life for him, less stress, he'll be able to take skids to daycare/school in the mornings whereas right now it's on my shoulders. And he said if we have to we'll make up days on the weekends he can come home and we'll make up more the following month after the training. She doesn't care. She's totally against it all.

FDH asked her, "Why were you so for this last week but now you're against it?" she stumbled on her words and said, "Well it's just stupid to change the schedule."

Methinks she realized if she has her children for a whole month straight during the weeks that she won't be able to go out during the weeknights (which has been her MO lately). What a piece of crap.