So last time ss was here he completely shattered the entire glass door. Dh talked to him about working it off before he left and whether ss realizes it or not, we meant it. So tomorrow dh has to work and has left me to put ss to work. Yea!! It works better this way because if dh was off I doubt he would enforce it or would end up helping ss. This way, I can oversee and make sure he does this all on his own! I'm having him throw out tons of stuff as I'm organizing our garage. He'll also help with cleaning rhe garage. Then he gets to do yardwork- front and back and we have a big backyard!

So we had dinner with sil, her hubby and his 2 girls age 10. Sil is a new stepmom and I feel for her! She doesn't even see what she is getting into! We went to a restaurant his girls had been to many times before. (oh, the dad is non-custodial, btw). First, these girls were so immature- running around the fountain, making noises with their straws, nothing really annoying just silly. S soon as he toldthem to stop, they would. But hen the "daaaaaaadddddy" started....

So this is dh weekend to have ss. Tues, dh was talking to ss and reminded him that he's picking him up this weekend. Ss was surprised like he didn't know and sounded like he already had plans for this weekend. Weds, dh missed a call from bm but she didn't leave a msg so he didn't think it was necessary to call back. Thursday, dh receives an email from bm. She said she didn't realize it was dh's weekend and planned on taking ss to a birthday party that happens to be in our town. She asked if dh would let her pick up ss for a 'few hours' on Sat but if not then it was ok.

Ok, so most ifyou know the history and if you don't, read some of my posts from this summer. But basically ss can't stand ds. Ds is no angel, but he loves ss (they are half-brothers) and always wants to be with ss. Ss gets understandably annoyed. However, ss fights with ds. Yes, ds might hit ss. And ds gets punished for it. We had a talk with ss about not hitting ds anymore (remember the video?) and that we would take care of ds if he bothers ss too much. Well his weekend ds came running that ss hit him. I wasn't in the room and didn't see/hear what happened so it was hard to do anything.