Last night, DH informs me that he got an email from BM regarding Thanksgiving break. We are scheduled to have SS from Tuesday to Sunday that week. Typically, DH drives down at the beginning of visitation and picks SS up, then BM comes up at the end of visitation and takes SS back home. BM informed DH that she, GF, and SS will be visiting family in our state the weekend before pickup and asked if she could just drop SS off on that Tuesday on her way home and DH could then swap legs and bring SS back to her on Sunday. Of course her email was so nice and sweet, because she wants something.

We just dropped SS10 off at BM's after spending 24 hours with him in her city. We went to SS' football game yesterday. It was good. They won. When we arrived, DH, DD, and I found a place to sit, far from everyone. We looked like total oddballs. The younger grade game ended and most of the crowd cleared out, leaving probably 20 of us. I told DH that we should walk to sit by SS' leagues' section. So we did. GF saw us and offered for us to sit by them and the other parents. BM looked really irritated by GF's invitation. We sat right next to them for the whole game.

I have posted previously about my Mom on this blog. For backstory: my mother was abused by her biological father (who had paranoid schizophrenia) until she was 11. My grandma tried to leave numerous times, but was always located and brought back. No fault divorces weren't a thing back then and every time my grandma filed, her request was denied. Her husband appeared to be a model citizen (with narc tendencies) so the locals never suspected a thing. My grandma was also being abused, so it was hard to leave when she had no resources to help you leave.

Some of you may remember that DD, who is now 6 months old, has been receiving physical therapy for her flat head (plagiocephaly) and tight neck muscles (torticollis). We sought to get her a helmet when she was three months old and went through the whole process. The clinic we were referred to did not accept our insurance, so I asked the pediatrician for a in-network referral to another clinic. When I asked for the new referral, one of the other pediatricians at the practice (not DD's primary) requested a consult.