We are deeply entrenched in the termination. FML took the stand and said she's would supervise. gAL says no visits with SD 11 without counseling but the other three are fine. New baby is getting bigger and kids miss him which sucks. Illegal husband in and out. bam claims she is going to a halfway house and yet we haven't heard a word about her checking in which FML would be touting so my suspicion is she is home drinking heavily. Ugh a all around but the skids continue to be amazing and I continue to be one of the few luck stepmoms which is a silver lining.

That's what today was. I was heading to court out of county and there was a car behind me. It revved up and followed me. It raced to the lane next toe then got behind me again. It rode my bumper. Then it got in the lane next to me. Then the driver pulled up next to me and flipped me off. Then it came into my lane trying to run me off the road. Once, twice and then a third time. I watched in horror as the person in the car next to me screamed profanities and tried to make me crash. Then this person ran into a car at a stoplight. 20 minutes later I was still shaking.

So I thought I posted a blog last week but apparently I did not. Things were great. BM was sober (she was pregnant after all) and we were all basically "getting along" for the kid's sake. BM was at overnights. OVERNIGHTS people. She was having unsupervised visitation and every other weekend visits. That lasted two weeks. She got drunk on Halloween. We didn't really have any proof and the 11 year old (can't believe she's already 11) said she didn't want to have to tell the judge. So we monitored the situation. No problems. She was doing fine and we thought maybe 11 year old was wrong.

There has been a lot of talk on the ol' interwebs recently about overstepping stepmoms. There seems to be an underlying theme that SM's shouldn't have any say when there are two capable parents who can make a decision regarding their children. I would agree entirely, to a point. Do I think an SM should be able to make decisions about an elective, non-necessary medical treatment without consulting parents? Not a chance. Do I think SM's should have the right to request certain testing of their step-children for educational or mental health reasons? Nope.