Step Lair

DH tells her in an email that we will not negotiate swapping weekends or any other scheduling matters via the children. If she wants to swap, she needs to talk to us directly.

Ever since then she has of course tried to do EVERY swap via the skids, and has even told us that “they are old enough to negotiate for themselves, so that is what we will be doing.”

Anyways, it was SD8 birthday on Sunday.

Both kids tell DH.. “Mum says you can drop us back to her early on Sunday, and can have extra time over the summer holiday.”

BB honestly thinks we would cut short one of our very few birthdays with SD8 so she can go back to BB?? Why on earth would she think we would do that??

Anyways, we were a few minutes late dropping the skids home.. BB calls and tells DH “you better hurry UP! We had an APPOINTMENT at 5pm!!!”

(We were late because BB has a habit of emailing DH ‘alternative’ drop-off locations, all over the place. We don’t always know EXACTLY how long it’s going to take us to get to these out-of-the-way places. )

Wouldn’t you give yourself a little grace time? Especially if you were asking someone to drive out of the way for you?? Or maybe she just expected DH to return the kids early, like she demanded??

I really hate her entitled attitude.

No subject posted 12/18 8:30:09 pm

This is her fifth attempt to negotiate stuff via the kids since DH put his foot down on the issue. As they say, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different response. That means she’s really .

DH is OK with the alternative drop-offs as occasionally we are sent to mutual friends houses, and the friends let DH have the kids early. I personally, wouldn’t allow it, but I need to be detached about it.. not a fight I would win with him.

It just bugs me that she can’t let the smallest of little things go. She can’t tell a mountain from a molehill. She grills the kids and is when she finds out we have gone places and bought things. She looks for things to be about, and I’m sure she will give herself a heart-attack one day!

How sad that she needs to go looking for things to upset herself with and to fan the flames of her own bitterness with. She can’t see that we were late because we had to go somewhere different.. she thinks we did it to cause trouble for her. We don’t really CARE enough to go out of our way to be difficult! She’s not important enough to annoy!

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