Hi everyone...It's been awhile since I have been on the board..I have been so busy getting ready for our move back to the states that I haven't had any spare time to do much of anything else. I will tell you what. The time spent away from this board has sure shown me how much I need it and all of you on here to keep my sanity and to keep things in perspective!!

Unfortunately, things haven't changed for the better with the step snot. She is still just as rotten and hateful as ever and DH continues to do nothing but sigh her name, lecture, and threaten her with things that she and we all know he won't follow through on. When he does "punish" her it with such a mild punishment that its almost laughable, especially since half the time he doesn't even follow through with or enforce his mild punishments.

She still has two F's in two of her classes. The agreement was NO electronics and NO socializing with friends outside of school until she picks all her grads up to at least a C. Yeah right, half the time she is sitting in front of the tv or on the computer with her little brother right under DH's nose and he says nothing to her about it. I am the one who has to say something. And, yep, he has "given her a break" because "she is doing better in school" by letting her go out side to hang out with her friends. Sigh....She still has two F's ...That's not "doing better" in my book and F's are certainly not C's, which were the agreed upon grade for those privileges...

It beyond me how he thinks she is going to turn out to be a decent, law abiding, and contributing member of society when she grows up...I have just honestly gotten to the point where I am burnt out on trying to do anything with or for her...