In which she does the morning shift
Being a semi-parent is weird. Today I'm taking the morning off to look after Josh, and Derek is doing the afternoon. He has a temperature and sniffle/cough. Poor bubba. So I'm not sick and moping around sickly, but I can't get out and enjoy the day either. Weird.
Derek had to go and collect Josh from daycare mid-morning yesterday, so our time with him started early (usually it is from 5pm on a Weds through to either Sun night or drop back to school/daycare Monday morning - oh and only every 2nd weekend of course).
I don't mind taking the morning off, truly I don't. What I do resent is Joshua's mother. Gosh is she an A grade bitch. Apparently (from Jess) Josh threw up before he even got to daycare yesterday. Now instead of her staying home with him because he was obviously unwell, she proceeded to take him to daycare, because she knew once he was there they would ring US if he was still sick because they know it's our day. Then, she has the audacity to call here this morning and wind him up on the phone until he was practically in tears 'missing' her, and to top it off, I heard her telling him that she wasn't even at work! Now, Derek and I are both taking sick time to look after Josh today. But if she's lazing around home anyway, why couldn't SHE do it? It seems like the woman goes out of her way to make life difficult and inconvenient for us.
She doesn't have any consideration or regard for her children's best interests. I have actually NEVER witnessed or heard about her doing anything that benefited the children unless she gets some sort of 'win' out of it also. People like that shouldn't be allowed to have children. It's not quite as bad as neglect I suppose. But it's like she thinks it's supposed to be easy. Having kids is NOT supposed to be easy, and you shouldn't be allowed to have them unless you realise that. It is not something to be taken lightly. To raise good kids you WILL have to make sacrifices. The really really hard thing for us is, that while we know that 'she'll reap what she sows' (i.e. if you don't put the effort in, you'll see the results in the way the kids turn out) - it's also US that reaps what she sows, no matter how much of a good job we're doing at our end. That really, really sucks.
Right, vent over! Off to make us some toasted sammies before we do the switch over and I go back into work mode.
Derek had to go and collect Josh from daycare mid-morning yesterday, so our time with him started early (usually it is from 5pm on a Weds through to either Sun night or drop back to school/daycare Monday morning - oh and only every 2nd weekend of course).
I don't mind taking the morning off, truly I don't. What I do resent is Joshua's mother. Gosh is she an A grade bitch. Apparently (from Jess) Josh threw up before he even got to daycare yesterday. Now instead of her staying home with him because he was obviously unwell, she proceeded to take him to daycare, because she knew once he was there they would ring US if he was still sick because they know it's our day. Then, she has the audacity to call here this morning and wind him up on the phone until he was practically in tears 'missing' her, and to top it off, I heard her telling him that she wasn't even at work! Now, Derek and I are both taking sick time to look after Josh today. But if she's lazing around home anyway, why couldn't SHE do it? It seems like the woman goes out of her way to make life difficult and inconvenient for us.
She doesn't have any consideration or regard for her children's best interests. I have actually NEVER witnessed or heard about her doing anything that benefited the children unless she gets some sort of 'win' out of it also. People like that shouldn't be allowed to have children. It's not quite as bad as neglect I suppose. But it's like she thinks it's supposed to be easy. Having kids is NOT supposed to be easy, and you shouldn't be allowed to have them unless you realise that. It is not something to be taken lightly. To raise good kids you WILL have to make sacrifices. The really really hard thing for us is, that while we know that 'she'll reap what she sows' (i.e. if you don't put the effort in, you'll see the results in the way the kids turn out) - it's also US that reaps what she sows, no matter how much of a good job we're doing at our end. That really, really sucks.
Right, vent over! Off to make us some toasted sammies before we do the switch over and I go back into work mode.