This is f!cktard's year to have the kids on Christmas and that day just happens to fall on our week for the first time ever. Last year we had to celebrate Christmas a week after because it usually always falls on her week.

DH knew that she was going to ask to have them overnight for Christmas Eve and had planned on telling her no. He may not have them Christmas day but at least he can do Christmas with them in the morning.

So of course this doesn't sit well with her. Nobody tells her no. So she told DH she was going to use her one week of uninterupted vaction time that week since it's her year to take priority over any of his requests she knew there was nothing he could do.

When he comes home from work, he's p!ssed and already given up on the fact that he won't be able to see his kids this year for Christmas. I suggested that since they both technically get two weeks of uninterupted vacation a year that he can just request the next two weeks of her time. That means she wouldn't see the kids for a month and is one Christmas morning worth going a month without seeing your kids? At first DH didn't want to do it. He doesn't want to have to play dirty. After explaining to him that it's not playing dirty that she thinks she has all the power it's more of a putting her back in her place and letting her know that the power is split equally. Eventually DH sent the text.

Oh god was she p!ssed. Especially after she did the math and realized she won't see the kids for a month. She sent him texts telling him that they are adults and that they need to leave the kids out of this and she can technically take one of her weeks back because she still has one week left and she gets priority this year. DH plainly told her that if she's all about being an adult then why is she taking Christmas morning away from him because she didn't get her way and that if she was really about the best interest of the kids how does it benefit them to not be able to spend Christmas morning with his kids? She tried to text her mom but accidentally sent it to him. (That one made me laugh.) Eventually she gave up taking that week from him and DH gets his kids Christmas morning now.

This lady has no clue who she's messing with and DH might start to trust my judgment a little bit better now.