Yesterday, BM sends DH an email informing him that both kids are playing basketball and giving him the dates of the games. She is sure to say "you got emails from the school about this, so you should have known about it." Um, the emails DH got were "youth basketball registration is open". Neither kid has mentioned basketball and BM did not say "hey, the kids want to play basketball, so I'm going to register them. Many of the games are on your weekends, is that ok?" BM also includes the receipt and tells DH how much she paid for basketball.

It's been almost a month since he got them and SS still cannot put his contact lenses in on his own. Also, he seems to have lost his cleaning solution and rewetting drops...or couldn't be bothered to bring them with him to our house. Thanks, BM, for not being a parent and allowing your kid to get something he was totally unprepared for. The only good thing was that she sent DH an angry email about some other expense and he told her "contact lenses were your choice. I paid for glasses. I will not be paying for contacts."

After DH's divorce, he moved in with MIL because he didn't have enough money to afford a place big enough for his kids to stay EOWE. When he and I became engaged, he moved in to my apartment (which was also not big enough for his kids to stay) and then stayed at his mother's house on his visitation weekends. MIL travels somewhere between 3 and 6 months of the year, so she was around a little more than half the time he was staying there. When she was there, however, she took on a large parenting role with my SSs, which DH allowed her to do.

This afternoon, DH comes up to me to ask if we have any chargers that work with SSs phones, because despite the fact that he texted them on his way over to pick them up and said "bring your chargers and phones" neither one brought a charger. I said, "why do you need a charger?" DH says, "SS11 misses his mom and wants to call her." I replied, "he's going to see her in less than three hours."