a) SD16's increasingly bad life choices. (skipping class, failing classes, lying, manipulations, stealing, unprotected sex with at least 2 boys that she's admitted to)

b) DH's almost delusional happiness when we go a whole 2 weeks without a call from BM or SD about some more bad behaviour. It's like he wants to throw her a flippin' parade for just going to class and keeping her legs closed. I'll be happy to celebrate with you when the behaviour is CONSISTANT. Two weeks is just a honeymoom period.

My dad invited DH, SD16 and I over for lunch this weekend. My dad treats SD like she is a bio grandchild and hadn't seen her since Christmas. SD16's social skills are horrible. She acting like a 5 year old. She needs to be the center of attention every second and will make up insane sounding stories just to hear herself talk. For years I have been the bad guy and cut her off when she monopolizes the conversation for too long. Lately I have let DH handle it. My dad and step mom included her in on our conversations, asked about school, friends and whatnot.

Back in June, I made plans for my cousin and her girlfriend to visit next weekend and spend the night. I am very close to this cousin, more like a sister, but we don't get to see each other too much. This visit was actually DH's idea, which was very sweet of him to make the offer to them.

We had sd16 this past weekend. It was her birthday this week and even though she tried to run away last week, DH promised to take her to our friend's trailer for the weekend. I wasn't going and was almost giddy to have the house to myself.