tyler's birthday
My niece, Gingersnap, recently wrote an email to her father and stepfamily just to say hello and for the sake of using email because it is sooooooo cool. Her stepmother wrote back to announce that they would not be picking up the kids this weekend because they would be moving, but next weekend is Tyler's (the kids' stepbrother) birthday which would work out better for them. She then told Gingersnap to ask her mother (actually, she called her by first name instead of "your mom") if they could come to get the kids next weekend instead for Tyler's birthday.
Problems:
1. If they have questions about switching weekends, they need to talk with the children's mother, Grasshopper, not the kids.
2. Don't call Grasshopper by name to the kid, call her "your mom" or something equivalent. Actually, they don't even call Grasshopper by her preferred name, but by a shortened nickname. They make the kids call their mom by her given name when they are with their father's family, but that's a completely different rant.
3. Not once since Grasshopper split with the kids' father has any of them called the kids on their birthdays or even sent a card. Two of them are twins with (obviously) the same birthday, and they still can't be bothered to call and wish them a happy birthday. They don't call on Christmas, either.
4. These people live five hours away. While it's not horribly far away, going to pick them up takes all day.
Grasshopper wrote Emily (the stepmother) and Nathaniel (dad) back to request that they please do not talk about switching weekends with the children. If they want to adjust the schedule, they can call to talk about it. Grasshopper didn't say no, she just said to call in order to discuss it. Emily wrote again to say that her email was exactly the same as sending a birthday invitation in the mail.
Uh, no. It isn't exactly like that at all. Idiots.
Problems:
1. If they have questions about switching weekends, they need to talk with the children's mother, Grasshopper, not the kids.
2. Don't call Grasshopper by name to the kid, call her "your mom" or something equivalent. Actually, they don't even call Grasshopper by her preferred name, but by a shortened nickname. They make the kids call their mom by her given name when they are with their father's family, but that's a completely different rant.
3. Not once since Grasshopper split with the kids' father has any of them called the kids on their birthdays or even sent a card. Two of them are twins with (obviously) the same birthday, and they still can't be bothered to call and wish them a happy birthday. They don't call on Christmas, either.
4. These people live five hours away. While it's not horribly far away, going to pick them up takes all day.
Grasshopper wrote Emily (the stepmother) and Nathaniel (dad) back to request that they please do not talk about switching weekends with the children. If they want to adjust the schedule, they can call to talk about it. Grasshopper didn't say no, she just said to call in order to discuss it. Emily wrote again to say that her email was exactly the same as sending a birthday invitation in the mail.
Uh, no. It isn't exactly like that at all. Idiots.