Out of the volumes of crazy BM antics this is so minor. I found it irritating at first, but at this point it's comical. Everything that comes to our house, even things that belong at our house, she writes on. Or draws on. Or somehow alters. Or sprays. Like some sort of animal.

Not an item that went back and forth in SS's schoolbag wasn't written on, stepson's name usually. But it was every folder, utensil, random food storage container, snack bags (yes, the throwaway Ziplocs),the lunchbag, the backpack itself, some paper ID tag with his name on it even though the backpack already had the name Sharpied on. IDing some school supplies is of course a good idea, but it is EVERYTHING. The school planner. With her contact info filled out on the emergency page, and alternative contact info she filled out wasn't DH's number, it was BM's sister's number (because Dad's don't matter), and for nearly every night that was a "Dad" night, BM would draw some stupid doodle in the box Dad would have to sign for that day. Drawings like a kid would do, like the most basic doodle of a flower you can picture, or a rainbow and cloud (so weird, she is just... so weird). BM doesn't do homework with the kid or anything (teacher had to email DH last year about homework not being done on her nights), but she'll do this stuff. She also just started signing the tags of clothing. Well, the 2 shirts she bought him in the last year that have come here, because of course Dad must buy ALL of his clothing (child support is for HER clothing, silly).

When he takes toys we buy him that have small parts to BM's, we send them in a little drawstring bag. And almost every time it will come back reeking of what I can only assume is her gross perfume that has obviously been sprayed directly on the bag. Or the bag will come back with like 10 pieces of BM hair that "somehow" got in it, which I find especially crazy. Dad buys him a new phone, BM changes screensaver Dad put on to a pic she took of his cats at her house, and all ringers changed to what SS says is BM's favorite music. So many random sheets of paper in envelopes for random things. Or 1 sentence notes about nothing scrawled on pink "diva" or "princess" stationary (LOL). Medications come with printed out Excel sheets, made and cut to sandwich baggy size that lists the number of pills she sent per day, date, etc. BM, you don't have a job but you have time for this? He's been on the same medication, same dose for 6 months or something now and she still does this. Just saying. And she sends only a few at a time in a baggy (instead of in bottle which would be the legal way to do, but ok, BM) because we are sure she's taking his ADD meds, but that's another post. We know this for other reasons, but just throwing it out there that people NOT on excessive amounts of Adderall don't usually create explicit spreadsheets over nothing or spend hours typing and sending huge emails that include charts and shit, or schedules with a count dividing SS's school breaktimes down to the HOUR, but what do I know?

The most annoying one might have been when she intercepted Dad's school picture order and wrote SS's name and year inside of DAD's yearbook. Or when SS, who is in middle school so not a little kid, made Dad some little ceramic craft at school. And she Sharpied his name on the bottom of it before it got here. Was just loling at the strangeness and compulsiveness of it all (seems so much weirder typing it out, too) and how it reminds me of a dog pissing on a tree, and thought I'd share.