Mother’s Day
Pity party vent.
I feel like we always end up having Mother’s Day weekend. But the parenting plan is written such that he has to drive the kid to his mom on Saturday and then pick him up again on Sunday because we have Sunday overnight and school Monday.
I have a biological son and while my husband always tries to make it special, it’s usually interrupted by the fact that he has to take two hours out of the day on both Saturday and Sunday afternoon to pick up and drop off my stepson to his mom.
The insult to injury is that she’s really an awful person and she really makes my stepson and my relationship really awkward anyway. I wish the plan was written so that she could just have the weekend but it’s not. And since we go to church on Sunday, the time between we get when we get home from church and when my husband needs to leave to drop my son off leaves no room for us to do anything and by the time he gets back it’s evening and a school night. Plus my husband always tries to get my stepson involved and he’s not really interested and it’s just awkward.
Adjusting the plan is out of the question as she’s extremely high conflict and Always tries to change the entire school arrangement when we try to make one small adjustment any weekend or anything.
Our kids are similar age so essentially for all of my Mother’s Days since my son was three until he’s an adult, it will be this way. So every year I am reminded on Mother’s Day how much our parenting plan sucks, how scared my husband is of HCBM (to never want to change the plan for fear she’ll pull something), and how evil she is.
Blended families are really so much work. Maybe when my son is a little older we can just hang out or something. But then DH feels left out.