All the kids got an e-mail addy until oldest sd decided to start sending e-mails and registered an e-mail to a different server without parental permission...the e-mails were my idea and i helped them all set up, so i deleted them all because it cause friction between dh and bm.

SO a while later, sd admited to us about setting up a new account and said "you would've never known had i not told you" REALLY is that the game we're gonna play? (mom does not monitor her actions closely)

I recently set up my daughter a yahoo e-mail address, sd decided that was unfair to her bio sister (middle of the group) and set her one up, because we all had one xept her. Because of the e-mail addy issue, my dh and i don't let them on the internet AT ALL and i got my sd a trac cell for good grades as i promised her i'd do. knowing we will take it away if she acts up she doesn't ever bring it out. so of course i told her well, if you're gonna hold it hostage, you can forget me buying you minutes for christmas....she brough the phone out the following weekend...DUH.

so we warned them and told them that i was giving MY baby our old computer that's just sitting collecting dust that's in PERFECTLY GOOD condt. and oldest sd threw a fit! asking why don't we get big stuff like that? why is she so special, REALLY!? i've been neglecting my OWN baby to make sure YOU get what i promise you...so in my defense, well, i WOULD keep getting you this crap, but you never bring it back (my dad got them mp3 players, we've never seen them since christmas 2009) my sil bought them CUTE dresses for our wedding, they took them home and they NEVER came back even when we asked just for professional wedding pics.

why the hell do you think i'm gonna keep spending good money on something like that if you're just gonna take it home and i never get to see you using it?

it's not fair that your mom has complete control over you, and tells you if you can bring something back that I ME MYSELF buys you and because of that you have nothing here to enjoy and my daugther misses out because of that WRONG!

Going to be an interesting christmas...i know my baby will LOVE her computer!