Okay, we live in a 3 bedroom house with 2 bathrooms. We have the skids half the week, and they share a room. We have a roommate (who will only be living with us until winter) who pays rent and who has the other bedroom. His room and the kids room shares a bathroom. He also uses our family room as his own living room -- he has his TV, couch, and computer in there. Our arrangement with the roommate is great for now, as he works a lot and also stays at his girlfriend's house a lot too...we really rarely see him, and when we do, we all get along great.

MIL came to our house last week and spent a night, as she was driving through town after visiting my brother in law and his kids. I was really shocked that she was even going to come over, because since I've lived there (2 years) she has not even come inside the house. We get along great, she's just always gotten a hotel when she's come to town and had us bring the kids there.

BM's mother called DF last week and said she wants to buy the skids a trampoline, but that she doesn't have room in her yard for it....which was a lie. She has a huge yard. DF called her on that and said what do you mean, your yard is huge! So she then said that she doesn't want neighbor kids jumping on it, and since our yard is fenced in she thought we'd want it. Plus, the kids are at our house more than at hers so they'd get more use out of it. (FYI, BM lives in an apartment.)

Here's the scenario that has occurred at least 10 times in the last year, and just last night. It's the middle of the week, on a night where BM has the kids. We're laying in bed, sleeping, and DF's phone rings. He groggily looks at the caller ID and sees it's BM. Thinking something happened to one of the kids, he immediately answers it....