So much for my new years resolution not to let psycho-Bit*h upset me, but what she did lastnite was completely uncalled for. It started with SD 7 asking DH if she could stay with us until BM gets a new place. We're like, ok, what's going on? She opens up to tell us that she is stressed out because of her living situation. Background: BM got evicted (again) and ended up moving across town to a friends house, this friend has two kids who are, per SD's, mean and nasty. SD 7 goes on to say how there is a lot of yelling and such going on there, and how the kids are left with her oldest sister, 13, who lets them watch rated R movies, etc. \

Anyhoo, DH calls BM to talk to her about having the SK's stay with us more until she gets on her feet. Mind you, she is on speaker phone and SD7 is chatting with her as well. BM seems to be calm at first and agrees, after much back and forth, to DH keeping the kids one extra day. When DH tells her it'll be easier if the kids stay here until she gets on her feet, and that the school is complaining that the kids are consistently tardy she FLIPS OUT! Not only does this woman swear like a sailor while on speaker phone knowing her 7y/o is listening, she is screaming at the top of her lungs and calling me a whore! She basically tells DH that since he left he has no say in what happens to the kids and that he needs to give her more money instead of giving it to me ( um yeah, he just lavishes me with cash all the time, whatever!!).

I happen to come into the room just as she finishes saying "....and that whore you married" and hangs up. I say "what's going on?" b/c I did not know DH was doing this. SD 7 turns and looks at me with this sad twisted expression and says "mom got upset." She then clings onto me, begins crying hysterically and won't talk for the next 10 minutes. Finally, SD 7 speaks up and says she is afraid to go back to her mom b/c "mom will yell and it scares me."

I am so angry that this woman has no regard for the emotional welfare of her children and won't let it go that DH left her b/c she is a horrible bit*h.

What recourse do we have? This kid wants to stay here, and later we found out that SD 10 wants to stay with us more as well. We're fine with that, but they are so afraid of their psychotic mother, they have no one but us in our corner. The only thing we feel we can do, since we cannot afford a lawyer, is to take the recorded psychotic break of this woman into mediation court. Fortunately DH records all his conversations with her and is going to create a 'Greatest Hits' of her rantings from the last FOUR YEARS.