It's All My Husband's Fault

  Tuesday night, The Ex uploaded two pictures to Facebook and tagged Daughter in the post.  The first picture was a pair of Daughter's underwear spread out on the counter top. The second picture was The Ex's younger daughter wearing Daughter's underwear as a hair tie for her ponytail. ( I'm not kidding.  This isn't even funny to joke about. )  With the pictures, she wrote: "Well [Daughter first & last name]... I found a new use for your chonies!!! LOL [The Ex's niece] likes wearing your chonies like a headband!!! LOL!!!" ( Absolutely no part of this is funny.  It's gross and weird. )  The following people commented:      The Ex's younger sister:  Ewww I hope those are clean lmao      The Ex's older sister:  Well whatever works! Lol      The Ex:  Might teach her a lesson to put her clothes away!!! Lol      The Ex's younger sister:  Lmao very true I'm so glad ur not my ...

  The Ex filed a motion to modify placement for Son almost 2 weeks ago, alleging that Son is suicidal because he lives here and that Son is trying to get out of a gang that he joined at the high school here.  Forty-eight hours after she filed, she and Ned went on a week-long vacation by themselves.   She made sure to post about her vacation with Ned multiple times over the last week.  The first was on Thursday.  She uploaded two pictures, one of food and one of Ned being his typical douchey self, and wrote: "[Name of restaurant, misspelled] 2x now we've eaten here ( Who the hell cares? ) 1st time we ate Steak Pesto ( Refer to my previous question. ) [Ned's first & last name]...I Love You silly" ( This is just the beginning of her misuse of capitalization. )   Exactly 3 hours later, she uploaded three pictures of Ned on a sailboat and wrote: "My Sweet Love!!! ( Why Does She Type Like This? ) My Captain [Ned]...relaxing on our way back in" ( I do...

  Over the years, we've kept our wallet from getting drained because Our Attorney and I work together on most everything.  In fact, the last time we went to court, I had prepared all of the paperwork, had her review it, made all of the copies, filed the motion, served The Ex and Attorney 4, and submitted proof of service to the court.  Our Attorney actually asked why we even needed her; I said because I'm not licensed by the state to practice law.  So with that being said, I'm relatively familiar with the forms and what needs to be done.   The sheriff showed up at our house at 6am on Wednesday morning to serve Husband with this paperwork that The Ex filed.  It appears that The Ex had Attorney 4 prepare the motion and notarize her signature, and that The Ex filed it herself.  It was only 2 pages long but it's just chock-full of errors that I can't believe she actually gave them money to do this for her.   Page 1 was the notice of her motion and...

  So we found out that The Ex was going to talk to her lawyer about trying to get the kids placed with her again.  Daughter also told me about a week ago that The Ex's parents came over and slept on an air mattress in Ned's living room because their electricity got shut off at their trailer; that means there were 8 or 9 people sleeping in a house that's less than 1,000 square feet.   I found out on Tuesday that The Ex had allegedly enrolled Son in the high school at Tiny City.  I called Our Attorney, who told me to call the school and explain that a)Husband and The Ex share joint legal custody so they both need to consent to the enrollment, b)Husband did not consent to the enrollment, and c)Husband has primary physical placement so Son is already enrolled in the school here because he doesn't live in Tiny City. ( So once again, The Ex is violating the court order.  Surprise. ) I call the school; the secretary looks and says she doesn't see him enrolled but tak...

  Son and I had a really good heart-to-heart conversation a few weeks ago...or so I thought.  He initiated it, and we talked for almost 3 hours, just the two of us.  During the conversation, Son asked if he HAD to finish school here.  I said yes and asked why he was asking; he asked about home schooling.  I asked why he wanted to be home schooled and he said then he could do his schoolwork at The Ex's house since she has wi-fi.   I told him that I'd have to see if we could even enroll him yet and what the cost would be. ( I wasn't actually going to do this but if I gave him a flat out no, then he'd just get upset. )  Son then suggested going to school in Tiny City.  I told him that wasn't an option because the high school at Tiny City is absolutely horrible. ( Our state releases a report card every year on school districts - Tiny City is not even meeting state requirements. )  I asked why he suddenly wanted to go to school in Tiny City, and S...

  After not logging into 2houses for 10 straight days, The Ex decided that she needed something and sent Husband this message on Sunday night: "Can we please switch the weekend of September 8th with September 15th? Please let me know" ( It always makes me giggle when she uses the same words over and over, like she did here . )   Unfortunately for The Ex, we planned a family outing on the weekend of September 15th.  I literally made the reservations four days before she sent this email.  It was hard enough to schedule and book what we have planned around sports schedules, school, and shared placement.  Quite honestly, I don't want to spend the time and energy trying to reschedule the entire thing just to make it more beneficial to a single person who isn't even a part of my family.   Husband replied and said we already have plans, we cannot switch the weekends and said he was sorry.   Fifteen minutes later: "How about the weekend of October 27th...

  Not even two weeks ago, Husband and I confronted Son about his lying. ( This was when we took away all of his bonus things, like a phone and a car and a TV. ) Instead of being mature and owning up to what he had done, Son literally looked Husband directly in the eye and lied about lying; he must have thought we didn't know the truth and if he kept lying, he'd weasel his way out of it.  We actually saw the flash in his eye when he realized he was caught and there was no getting out of it.   As that's been explained, Husband and I couldn't stop giggling to ourselves last night because Son posted this to Facebook: "Now I know what it feels like when people lie straight to your face"   Maybe I shouldn't laugh...but I just can't help it  😂