So SS10 comes to visit this weekend. He will be here tomorrow to Sunday as makeup time for visitation he had to skip due to a basketball tournament in February. We let BM know that we will be staying at my parent's house for the whole weekend because our apartment is packed up due to us closing on our house in a week or so. 

It has been silent for the past four months because SS has been in BM's care, so no need for her to cause drama right. So BM emails DH at midnight last night stating that GF rushed SS to urgent care over a "pindrop-sized black mark" on SS' arm. BM said the doctor lanced it, but couldn't find anything. BM wanted DH to "keep an eye on it" over the weekend and seek medical attention if needed. Whatever...

DH then sends BM an email this morning, confirming exchange times for SS and letting her know (as the CO requires) that we will be staying at my parent's house this weekend and she will need to pick up from there. My parents live 45 minutes from our apartment, but they live closer to BM and BM has picked SS up there before, so we believed it would be no issue right. WRONG. BM fired back that picking SS up from my parents adds 45 minutes each way to her trip and she won't do it. She stated that she would only do that if she was going to visit her parents since it is on the way, but since she is not, she won't. Basically, she acted like she would have had to drive to our apartment and backtrack to my parents, which is utter bullshit. So, DH maps both addresses from her home and sends her the screenshots of the maps, proving that my parent's house is closer, both in time and mileage. He let's her know that if she refuses to pick up at their house, then fine, but they need to meet at a mutually agreed upon location, since we aren't driving 45 minutes back to our apartment just to drop off. 

BM then goes off about how she remapped it again and while it isn't as long as she originally stated, she isn't comfortable taking that route "due to unsafe backroads." She then said that the preferred route she takes is longer, which is why she won't do it. To get to my parents house from BM's, you literally take a major interstate 300 miles north, then merge onto a US freeway and take that NE, and then get off at my parent's exit and drive 2 miles... there are absolutely no backroads. Plus, this "unsafe route" is the same route BM takes to get from her home to her parent's home so she has done it hundreds of times before without issue. She then called DH "demanding and uncooperative." She tells DH that it isn't fair because she drives SS daily to school, daycare, sports, etc. and that we only drive him to pick up for parenting time, so we need to keep that in mind when "demanding last-minute favors of her." BM goes on about how legally our CO states pick-ups are to occur at our residence or mutually agreed upon location, so we can't legally demand a location she doesn't agree to and she could technically force us to take SS back to our apartment for pick up. Right BM, because you haven't forced us to pick SS up from BM's parent's house or her state's FBI headquarters (GF's former employment) before, yet we are uncooperative. After her tantrum, she agreed to meet DH at a Lowes right off the freeway 2 miles from my parent's house. Fine BM. 

Good lord. I am sure BM is pissed about DD and the fact that she knows we are closing on our house soon, which is probably why she is being petty but still... The funny thing is, we are moving about 10 miles south of my parents and it's actually in the country so not only will BM have to take that same "unsafe backroads route," she will also have to take actual country backroads to get to our new home. For real though, why can't BM just play nice ever?!