It's All My Husband's Fault

  A few hours ago, The Ex posted on Facebook: "My Little Man lost his 3rd tooth in school yesterday. He came home upset he couldn't find it. ( I don't understand this.  Do you guys remember last year when her kid lost his first tooth and they couldn't find that one either?  I wrote about it here .  Why does this kid not know where any of his teeth fall out?  I've never experienced this; are my children that abnormal? ) Even his teacher helped him look for it. ( Where are all these adults when this kid has his fingers in his mouth?  Why doesn't he ever tell anyone he pulled a tooth out?  Honestly, this makes no sense to me.. .) Today I told him he needed to write the tooth fairy what happened. ( Last I heard, The Ex's dad was the tooth fairy and was forking out $10/tooth to The Ex's daughter. ) He asked me to help him. ( Well, yeah.  He's in kindergarten.  He can't really write a letter by himself. ) I wrote a letter and had him copy it. ( ...

  After Husband told the mediator that he didn't think mediation was necessary because there was no longer a dispute over placement of Son, she called him and said that The Ex still wanted to have mediation to discuss summer placement of Daughter and transportation.  I talked to Our Attorney who agreed that there is no motion filed, any issues above and beyond Son's placement is not in front of the court at this point, and mediation is not necessary.  Husband called the mediator a second time and left her another message stating that the motion was solely for Son, the motion clearly stated that The Ex did not want the order changed regarding Daughter, and that Husband wasn't interested in changing anything and was happy with the order as it stood.   This morning, Husband had another voice mail: "Hi [Husband], this is [mediator's name] calling from [our county] Family Court Counseling.  I got your message.  Um, in regards to, um, you don't want anything chan...

  Friday morning, Husband went on break and found he had a new voice mail: "Hi [Husband], this is [mediator's name] from [our county] Family Court Counseling.  Um, I know that you had responded to my April 3rd letter saying that- um, from your perspective, that nothing more was needed in regards to your son and um, changing the order because he was gonna be graduating.  And, um, [The Ex] had responded.  And basically she said, she's good with that- with that child, but she's not okay with your daughter.  Um, I believe that's [Daughter].  And so she wanted to do mediation in regards to that.  Um, also in regards to the transportation.  I think with [Daughter] it has to do with the Mondays that you are- um, as far as like her summertime placement and those Mondays.  Um, again as well as the transporting.  Um, so I just wanted to get you scheduled for that session.  I'm looking at the afternoon of Monday, May 21st.  Like, at 1 o'...

  So to recap:  The Ex dropped off the kids late, then asked to pick them up directly from school while calling Husband childish and accusing him of wanting her to beg.  Husband said she could pick them up at 5pm in order to make it back to her daughter's concert in time.  The Ex replied by listing things she felt Husband had done wrong, called him a liar and heartless, said the kids "see through" both him and I, asked again about picking up earlier than Husband had agreed to.  Husband repeated she could pick the kids up at 5pm.  The Ex called both of us immature, whined about her daughter's concert, claimed again that Husband wanted her to beg and told him to "dream on," said Husband and I have been "jacks" to her for over nine years, and called Husband heartless a second time.  The Ex's younger sister then told Son that Husband was "being a dick" about exchange time.   After all of this chaos, The Ex's younger sister picked up t...

  She is just....wow.  I mean, I know she's crazy, but.... *sigh*   So after this insanity last Friday, The Ex ignored Husband for three days. Then she fired off this gem Monday night: "The claim with all this, is only showing how immature you and [my name, misspelled again] are. ( We expect the court order to be followed and somehow that makes us immature.  Also, I don't entirely understand this sentence. ) How would you feel getting to your childs ( *child's ) school, no where ( *nowhere ) to park, but down the road ( "nowhere to park but down the road" should not have been separated by a comma. ) and by the time you get to the school and maybe find a seat or enough seats to sit, ( Have someone save seats for you or whoever is picking up the kids.  You have asked Son and Daughter to do this for you for years every single time they have a school activity that you bothered to attend; why can't you do it now? ) my daughter may have sang already??? ( T...

  The Ex asked last week about picking the kids up 2.5 hours early; this was only four days after she dropped them off 1.5 hours late with no explanation and no apology. ( You can read about it here . )  Husband emailed her back and said they use 2houses because she claims not to get his other forms of communication, said he doesn't want her to beg but he wants her to follow the court order and she doesn't, said he was willing to let the kids get picked up half an hour early to get back in time for the concert even though she dropped them off late the previous Sunday, reminded her of the medical bill balance and the last date she paid, and asked her to let him know what she was planning on doing.   The Ex replied the following afternoon: "You never call me( Not anymore, he doesn't. )...like when [Son] was caught with alcohol in class and suspended from school( Yes, Son was caught with alcohol in school.  He told us it was his mistake and he wanted to tell The Ex h...

  I forgot to blog about this, but you should get a laugh out of it.  Last weekend, Tiny City had their prom.  Son was going to go with Girlfriend.    Sometime last week, a girl sent Girlfriend a message; this girl dated Son for a couple months in 2016, and still goes to school with Son and Daughter.  The girl asked Girlfriend if she could tell Son that he needed to do his work because he had "stopped trying" and she didn't want him to fall behind.  I don't know what Girlfriend replied, but the girl then said that in the classes she shared with Son, all he did was play a game on his phone and text Girlfriend.  Girlfriend got irritated because she felt like this girl was blaming her for Son not doing his work.   Suddenly, The Ex got involved.  I'm assuming this girl also messaged her.  The Ex sends Son a message that was completely in CAPS that read: "[SON] IF U R NOT DOING YOUR HOMEWORK OR HANDING IT IN LATE YOU WILL NOT B GOIN...

  Among other things, I blogged the other day about The Ex bringing Son and Daughter home an hour and half late on Sunday evening.  Husband was going to email her about it on 2houses but decided it's not worth it; it's just going to start a fight and it's not going to change anything.  Husband had left that morning to go out-of-state for work; I'm sure she rationalized her behavior by saying that since Husband wasn't home anyway, it didn't matter what time they came back because he's the parent so he has placement and I do not.  So in her mind, she felt completely justified in not returning them by the court ordered time.  Never mind that on her placement weekends, Son spends the entire 2 days with Girlfriend - she's going to complain about what we do on our time.   And to be entirely honest, I felt a bit of sympathy for her the other day because something dawned on me:  she had to drive almost 4 hours round-trip for the sole purpose of dropping...

  Son needs baby pictures for the slideshow at the graduation ceremony.  We have some pictures of him when he was younger, which we got from Husband's family members.  We don't have any baby pictures because The Ex refused to let Husband have any when they split up.   Son told The Ex on Friday morning that he needed pictures.  She said to remind her later because she wasn't home.  Son reminded The Ex again on Friday afternoon.  Son reminded The Ex on Saturday night that he needed baby pictures.   The Ex decided to start going through baby pictures on Sunday afternoon.  Daughter texted me at 4:20pm saying they were running late because The Ex was getting baby pictures for Son. ( Reminder: the kids are supposed to be dropped off at 5:30pm.  That's the court-ordered exchange time, which The Ex requested. )  When they still weren't home at 6:30pm, I texted Daughter asking where they were.  No answer.  I texted The Ex askin...

  Husband got a letter from the mediator's office last week.  In case you guys haven't noticed by now, I have a serious pet peeve with people who can't construct a mature-sounding letter.  I get a huge laugh out of The Ex whenever she tries because she's just not smart enough to use proper verbiage, punctuation, or even the words that she's intending to use. ( Like when she told the court that she tried to leave her home during her and Boyfriend's "allocations," or when she told Husband to stop acting inferior to her. ) She's an idiot, I get it.  But I expect more from people in a professional setting.   The letter was addressed to both Husband and The Ex, except The Ex's name was not even her name.  It's a name that's similar to hers, if you omit certain letters and add more letters that aren't in her name.  That alone makes me roll my eyes, but the best part was the letter itself. "Dear [not The Ex's name] and [Husban...