BM hasn’t seen her kids in 2 weeks. She dropped off SS14’s backpack that we bought him on Tuesday because Wednesday was the first day of school. She complained to my DH about having to drop it off, she lives 5 min away. So the kids are upstairs when she drops it off. She doesn’t even ask how they are or ask to see them. No hug, no I miss you, no I hope you have a good 1st day of school… nothing. Just drops it off and bails. What a B ! I pick up my YSS on his 1st day and he is going on and on about what a great day he had.

My DH has been struggling with things that my SS’s are telling him that go on over at the BM’s house. Basically she’s a crappy mother, has never really cared or disciplined the kids in any way. According to my SS’s she is NEVER home. Leads a very active carefree life with her now BF while the kids stay at home and do nothing. My DH used to try and co-parent with her when the kids were little but she wouldn’t have any of it. In fact she used to deliberately undermine when my husband was trying to discipline the boys. Example: One of the boys was getting an F in a class.

Lately it seems like every weekend that the skids are supposed to be with their BM (week on week off custody) my DH has some reason to bring them over. The weekend before was MY brother’s birthday and they were all going to the beach, we had them this past weekend and next weekend my DH got tickets to go to an amusement park that are only good for that day. This has been happening a lot over the past few months, these are just a few examples. I’m going to sound like a total bitch right now, but I’m so tired of him always picking up the slack for their craptastic mother.

Socks. That’s what we’re talking about here people. Socks. My Bio son (16) has these “name brand” socks. They have whatever logo on them and they cost about $15 a pair. He got them as gifts or buys them himself. With 4 teenage boys in the house I don’t put socks in drawers, I have a laundry basket on top of the dryer that I keep all of the matched socks in. The “special” socks do not go in there, my son keeps them in his room that he shares w SS17. Well SS17 has been wearing them. My son has repeatedly asked him not to.