Ok, so are Christmas time, my husband was making feel extremely guilty about the kids. And I guess, I did not want to be label as the wicked step mother. I do not know why it was botherng me then, just was. And he wanted to get his daughter a phone for Christmas, but he is on my plan (that i pay for). So, after much debate, he played on my weakness and I got her a phone attached to my plan for Christmas. And we laid down the rules that day. She had free verizon to verizon text messages, and we bought her 1500 outside providers text messages. So anything in verizon network was free, and she had up to 1500 text messages outside the verizon network free. We told her if she goes over her phone is gone, bad grades = phone gone, and everythng else under the sun.

Well sometime ago around the middle of February her grades dipped to c's and d's and one F. So, her mother took the phone (which I approve of) and told her she could have it back when her grades came up. Well, apprently she got her phone back around March 13.

Now, i check my phone statement on the last day of the billing cycle to make sure everything is ok, and boy was I surprised last night. She had made upwards of 10,000 text messages, in little less than a month. And I call my husband right after and tell him, and I told him to call her and tell her to get off the phone right now, because we are coming to get it today. So, she texed approx 5500 in network text messages, and 4500 out of network messages, so take the 4500 - 1500 = 3000 text messages we are going to have to pay for!! WHT is she smoking? There is no need to text that damn much. She is 12 years old for freaks sake. Nobody, has that much to say, and I know happy of those damn messages are the stupd little smiley faces or lol.

Thankfully, I was able to contact Verizon and get the plan upped to cover it, but I am still pissed because she has proven herself irresponsible. And I just will not have it anymore. And her phone was shut off right after I found out about this.

So, in discussing this with my husband, he always takes the defensive side. And he stated that "she did not mean to do it". WTF? I do not care that she did mean to do it, it is still done. And I could see going over a couple of hundred, but this is 3000. I do not care if she using tick marks on her arm to keep count until it turns black or using a ababacus, it should not have happened. And then he comes backs with, "I should have been monitoring more carefully", and I told him I sent him the information on how to log onto the website and he says he deleted it by accident, yet he was able to log on last night when i was at work...hmmmm. And he asked her this past weekend, if she was ok on texts, and she comes back with "yes, daddy I have not texted anyone outside verizon". BULLSHIT!!

Then he tells me he called her, but she was already upset and crying and hiding underneath a pillow and did not want to make her day worse. I was like WTF? That is what life is about. You take responsibility for things WHEN they happen, not later, esp things you know are coming. It is not Life like goes, "umm is this a good time to drop a shit bomb on your doorstep, because I can come back later". If that worked, I would be frst in line, and telling Life every single day that "no, today does not work for me, come back later". No, you take care of things as they happen. You do not going crying and hide your head underneath and pillow and hope it goes away.

So, this morning around 10, I look on verizon's website and she has already made 18 messages!! AhHHH, I am going to kill her. I called my husband and told him he better take care of it, because she is not going to like it I have too. And so far after he sent her the text message, not a peep. It only takes 2 times for her to listen to him, not 5 times, like the son., and I am supposed to be impressed.

I am just waiting to hear her side of things. It is probably going to go something like "you did not tell me I was over" or "i did not know". well, honey now you know, because this song and dance is not happening again. Phone is OFF, adios amigo, not seeing it again. Yah, know, I knew ths was going to happen, but still tried, so he can not say I never tried. And now I do not have to try again.