alone with your kids mean having your BF & his three kids come down.

Let me just start off by saying that my oldest step son just told me this morning as I was leaving for work that he loved me! Yeah!!! I always tell him & his brother that I love him, 6yr old will say he loves me back but 9 y/o never does. DH asked him once don't you love step mom & he said I do, but you know... so DH left it at that. Which is fine I don't want him to feel forced.

My 6 year old ss is in the first grade. He is a very smart & sweet boy but has really had issues starting this summer with paying attention. There were also some incidents with yelling & hitting his older brother. ( once because he wanted to eat & no one else was hungry) We have brought this up to his mother & she & DH have sat down & spoken to him with a few of the incidents during this school year...but if the school wasn't bringing it up she would not notice it or do something about it.

It was our weekend with Dh's sons. Since there mother have them on a dead run every weekend we have been hanging close to home lately when we have them so they can relax & hang out. We took them to the history museum this weekend to see a baseball exhibit. The 6 year old really tested both of us. It's a barage of "watch where you are going, pay attention" the whole time. Then the best is these people pull up next to us & park so crappy DH can hardly get out & 6 yr old blurts out" what a bunch of wierdos" loud enough that the people heard.