DH wimped out about taking SD’s skirts away, though after 5 hours of arguing with her, he did get her to try on pants.  I was a tad bit ticked because I had to take our kids out of the house for those 5 hours and entertain them because her nasty attitude isn’t something I want them to emulate, all for basically nothing.  But whatever. At the end of the 5 hours, he’s  totally happy and pumped that she has admitted that she understands why I don’t want to have anything to do with her, because she constantly belittles me.  So apparently I wasn’t just overblowing things or imagining things like he thought I was.  The kicker though, he thought I would be super happy about this revelation...  which to me was not any revelation, just a reminder of all the crap he has willingly let his daughter do to me.  We had a big old conversation after that.

Now, it’s been a month and she’s still wearing skirts and long sleeves.   DH is super stressed about it.  I really don’t care unless it affects me, but I admit the tension in our house between them over the stupid skirts pisses me off. 

We to the park yesterday, and she is on the swing, in her skirt, and she starts complaining to us that some boys are looking at her underwear and teasing her and DH should make them stop.  Of course he goes in swinging to protect his princess.  However, I told him she wouldn’t have that problem if she wasn’t wearing a skirt (most girls learn this lesson in grade school).  She threw a big old hissy fit complete with the silent treatment when DH later told her she wouldn’t have that problem if she wasn’t wearing a skirt.

Anyway, I had a lovely camping trip with just my kids at the beach.  I now have no guilt whatsoever about leaving her behind.  I encourage everyone with a rotten stepchild and an enabling bio parent to take vacations without them.  It works wonders in the stress department.  This week officially and as a family we are going camping without the princess.  BM is taking her on vacation, so DH decided he could go without her guilt free.  Though if he took back his balls he wouldn’t have to have anything to feel guilty about.