I'm back from a long weekend taking SS10 up to see his grandparents, and I have to say that it went really well. There wasn't a single moment of 'you're not my mother', he did what he was told, actually responding quicker to me than my OH! Things were capped nicely when on the way home, we stopped for fuel & SS10 went into the shop with his dad to pay, and came back with a chocolate bar for me that he'd bought out of his own money! I felt all nice and fuzzy to be honest.

Well, today my SS turns 10, which has got my OH freaking out about feeling old! His BM is picking him up from school to spend a couple of hours with him, then the plan is that OH & myself pick him up to take him out to dinner. The possible problem? SS started insisting at the weekend that he wanted BM to come out for the meal too. BM said no, she wouldn't be going, and that she would try to work on him this week, but I'm slightly worried about how SS will be tonight.

We all got read this story, watched the films etc when we were younger, and no doubt many of us read it to our kids too. It's probably the best known depiction of the evil stepmother, so here's my little re-telling of the story from the SM perspective.

A widow with 2 daughters struggles to bring them up on her own, when she meets a widower with 1 daughter of his own. They fall in love & get married to try and form a blended family.

Compared to a lot of people on here, I know I've got it pretty easy with BM, but I can't get over her feeling of entitlement to whatever she wants.

Yesterday she phoned my OH with about half an hours notice to say she'd got caught up and he would 'have' to go pick SS10 up from after school club. Now, as OH works 40 miles from home getting stuck in bad traffic is a fairly regular occurence, so I wonder what she would have done if he'd turned around & said he was.