Every other Friday when we pick up SD8, I never know what to expect. Yesterday was one of the not so great ones.

First of all, the clothes SD8 was wearing: T-shirt (a size too small; sleeves were super tight), Socks (badly stained & worn out), Underwear (hole in the crotch) & Pants (3 sizes too small; HUGE holes all along the crotch...like 4 or 5 inches long). I would be ashamed to let my daughter wear this to school. What is wrong with BM?!

Then, SD8's homework never got done at BM's. So guess who's in charge of making sure it gets done? That's right. So my husband spent hours yesterday & today helping her with that, dealing with her being stubborn every step of the way. Why didn't it get done at BM's? The usual excuse: they were too busy. WTF???

Today I looked in SD8's backpack to see what notices we got from the school. There's a field trip this week that my husband will be chaperoning & BM filled out the permission slip, but for some reason it never got handed in. And on the slip, where it says there's a $2 fee, BM had highlighted it for my husband. I mean, come on, she couldn't give the teacher a lousy $2?! Is that why it's still in her backpack? Waiting on the 2 bucks from us? Pathetic...

And on top of all of this, SD8 had a major attitude yesterday. I call it "mommy mode" because she's basically acting just like BM. And that's never fun. She acts like everything is so uncool, like she's the most important person in the world, talks over people, interrupts constantly to have the attention on her, etc. I hate it. Luckily, today she mostly came out of it.

And now we have to listen to SD8 talk about BM's new house. She kept saying how awesome it was...except SD8 hasn't even seen it yet! She was only repeating what BM told her. I actually don't mind hearing about it, it's just the way SD8 is brainwashed to say exactly what BM told her to say. (And to make it clear to us that BM's new house is WAY better than our new house. Yeah, because it's a competition! My husband & I sooo care!) And of course, BM is playing her usual games...one day this week, BM is pulling SD8 out of school to go visit her new school. (This is our week, not BM's! BM has been told repeatedly not to do this, but BM does whatever she damn well pleases.) OK, first of all, it's not like SD8 has a choice...she's going to this new school next year no matter what. And she can't go see the school over the summer? Why make her miss one of her last days of school? (Her last days of school at the school she's been in for 4 years, with the kids she's known for 4 years...) Oh, and BM is also taking SD8 to see her new house after seeing the new school. All on a day we have SD8. So we'll get to hear about it nonstop. You think BM isn't doing this on purpose?! She's a bitch.

I fully plan on being happy about SD8 visiting her new school & house just so it doesn't get back to BM that I was annoyed. Besides, when I mention that my aunt & uncle live in the same town BM is moving to & that my aunt works at the school, SD8 changes the subject. She also doesn't want to hear about how I spent a lot of my childhood visiting them in this town, so I know it fairly well...the hiking trails, the swimming holes, etc. SD8 doesn't want to hear this because BM has to do everything first & know cool stuff we don't know. So ha! I knew this stuff 20+ years ago...take that, narcissistic troll!