Why do some people have to have drama in their lives? Why does everything have to be some sort of popularity contest to some people? Why is it that some people think that someone else should always help them out but they never do the same for other people?

I hate to use this blog just to bitch about a certain someone, but sometimes, I just feel like it.

About a month ago, my husband got a call from the ex regarding something that my 4 year old stepdaughter supposedly said "out of the blue". Supposedly my stepdaughter told her mom that my daughter told her that it was ok not to wash your body when you shower, basically, that we wouldn't know. I, of course, spoke to my daughter about this and she admitted that she did say that. So, we talked about why that was wrong and the importance of hygeine and all that. What gets me is that doesn't seem like something a 4 year old just brings up in conversation. I believe that she is being questioned about what goes on at our house. That I do not appreciate for a couple of reasons. #1 being that it is wrong to put you child in that position!! WRONG! #2 being that there is not a damn thing wrong with what goes on in OUR house. The girls eat healthy meals, play outside, take showers, have clean clothes, have chores to do and have bedtimes. It is a perfectly normal home. And, of course, the ex waited until the next day when she was around her friends to call and try to be a bitch about it, cuz you know, you gotta look like a badass in front of your friends.

Another thing that is pissing me off at the moment. My stepdaughter has been sick since Saturday (and this is her week at her mom's). Yesterday was my MIL's day off of work. My stepdaughter ended up staying over there yesterday so that her mother didn't have to take off work. WTF? You cannot stay home with your own kid when she's sick??? My guess is (and I don't know for sure without asking, so...) she called my husband to tell him that he needed to take the day off and stay with her and he called his mom since she was off work anyway. This is not the first time this has happened. One Thursday last summer, the ex called my husband to tell him that he was gonna have to take the next day off of work and take her to the doctor because she thought my stepdaughter had the chicken pox. I raised holy fucking hell about that shit! My stepdaughter had just gone home to her mom's house that same damn day and here she is telling us that she's not gonna take off work to take her to the doctor. So, of course, my husband takes off and then the next morning, she decides to meet him at the doctor with my stepdaughter! So, you make him call into work to take her and then you still show up at the doctor's office??? And, yeah, no chicken pox. Mosquito bites. Perhaps you should brush up on your chicken pox symptoms.

It seems that she thinks we are her personal babysitters. But, if we were to ask her to do the same, no way in hell.

She left a comment on my other blog (though she denies it) stating something along the lines of my husband doesn't leave my stepdaughter with me unless he is going somewhere that kids aren't allowed. Um, my stepdaughter is with me all the time, but my point it that the ex? Has a boyfriend. That she lives with. And yet? He never seems to be able to watch his own girlfriend's daughter when she has something to do. Interesting.

Ok, I feel a tad better now after a bit of venting.