Meanwhile, back in the real world SS has arrived. Thankfully he's not screaming "mommy's gone mommy's dead" this year, but we don't know if it’s because we warned him previously exactly what the BM was going to say and not to get upset if she did, or if its because she really didn't actually go out of her way to attempt to turn him into a basketcase this year. So while he's acting pretty normal, I do have some lovely tidbits from mommy dearest that came up in the course of normal conversation with SS. And by pretty normal I mean we catch him quietly crying himself to sleep at night because mommy needs him and he's bad because he's hurting her by seeing daddy...

Do you know that SS5's mommy grew him in her belly all by herself? She didn't need a daddy to make him, SS doesn't have a daddy. Since SS is 5 and this how small children work, he would like to know when he can grow a baby in his belly too all by himself. He knows he doesnt need a girl to make a baby because BM didn't need a boy.
In the course of this conversation SS asked me about my baby, because I recently had a miscarriage. SS knew he was getting a sibling as soon as DH and I did but then I lost it. He knows I lost it but he keeps asking me about it and why I never named it anyway. Since he called it my baby, I once again said that it was daddy's baby too and SS was extremely confused and maybe a little horrified about that one since girls make babies by themselves. The fact that it was DH's was not new information for SS we were very clear about this when we told him I was pregnant, but apparently this was overridden by BM's insistence that girls make babies without help.

Did you know that the BM's boyfriend is SS's brother? And the BM’s daddy is also his daddy?
While I appreciate the BM's attempt to have her boyfriend play a role in SS's life without calling him daddy, I am not sure a sibling relationship is appropriate. Is SS going to wonder why mommy makes out with his brother and sleeps in the same bed as him? I can understand the confusion about his grandfather since he lives in the same house and the BM calls him dad. Regardless, I’m pretty sure that by the time the BM is done confusing him SS will be planning on marrying any future siblings he may acquire while wandering around singing “I’m my own grandpa.”

Did you know that the only family SS has in the whole wide world is a mommy, a grandma, and a grandpa? He has no other family. He has no daddy, he has no paternal grandparents, he has no aunts uncles or cousins either.

Please tell me this crap has to end somewhere. Did your BM's all have your Skids spewing this kind of nonsense? Is this a normal stepfamily problem?