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<blockquote data-quote="mom_to_3" data-source="post: 258358" data-attributes="member: 30"><p>She lives about 45 min. away. Distance is not really the issue. I would drive across the country for my Grandson! The biggest issue is that my difficult child and I clash and butt heads. I hate that it is this way, and I do my best not to interfere or say things to stir the pot, but there are just some things, you know that have to be said. She can't hear anything from me especially if it's her having to take responsibility. An example............... Two of the conditions that CPS put on her (very reasonable) was to take a parenting class and get her G.E.D. After her son being in foster care and our home for almost a years time, she <strong>just<strong> as in one day ago, finished her parenting classes. Her G.E.D. a lot of lip service, but not completed. Remember, no child at home to take care of, no job, just no responsibilities at all and she just couldn't get this stuff done.</strong></strong></p><p><strong><strong></strong></strong></p><p><strong><strong>Our Grandson just spent spring break with her. I always send him clean, fingernails cut, hair cut, etc. Do you think he came back the same way? No. Yesterday she came to see him for her visitation, took him to the playscape. That's good right? But, she brings him home, running for the bathroom to vomit, because guess why? Someone pushed him so much on the tire swing he was sick! She did have other people with her, but it's a mothers responsibility to make sure those people don't make your child sick. Grrr!</strong></strong></p><p><strong><strong></strong></strong></p><p><strong><strong>For court tomorrow, she wants her son to look nice. So, she went and bought him a suit. She called me and asked who was taking him to court. I said we were seeing as though he lives here. She told me she wanted him to look nice and would I put a suit on him. It took me about a second to see red! You're not taking your son to a horse and pony show. She has never put a suit on him before, why now for show? If you want to show what a good mother you are, you should have taken your parenting classes and finished your G.E.D. at the beginning of this fiasco and completed it quickly! But let's put a suit on him. And to top it off............... I used to be a smoker, I quit over 2 yrs. ago, she smokes and I'm getting to be one of those ex smokers I didn't want to be........ she stinks and everything that comes from her house or car stinks badly of cigarettes. She brought a suit, shirt and tie that smells so badly! I cannot take my Grandson to court smelling like an ash tray. I shouldn't have to do it, but I considered getting over myself and washing it, but of course the suit is dry clean only. I'm not doing it. I have done so much for our difficult child already in caring for her son, and there is no respect or appreciation for it, only grief. Our Grandson looks nice every day when he leaves our home, he'll go to court looking like a little boy. And he'll be clean and smell nice.</strong></strong></p><p><strong><strong></strong></strong></p><p><strong><strong>That was a little more than you asked for, but there, now you know! Ha.</strong></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mom_to_3, post: 258358, member: 30"] She lives about 45 min. away. Distance is not really the issue. I would drive across the country for my Grandson! The biggest issue is that my difficult child and I clash and butt heads. I hate that it is this way, and I do my best not to interfere or say things to stir the pot, but there are just some things, you know that have to be said. She can't hear anything from me especially if it's her having to take responsibility. An example............... Two of the conditions that CPS put on her (very reasonable) was to take a parenting class and get her G.E.D. After her son being in foster care and our home for almost a years time, she [B]just[B] as in one day ago, finished her parenting classes. Her G.E.D. a lot of lip service, but not completed. Remember, no child at home to take care of, no job, just no responsibilities at all and she just couldn't get this stuff done. Our Grandson just spent spring break with her. I always send him clean, fingernails cut, hair cut, etc. Do you think he came back the same way? No. Yesterday she came to see him for her visitation, took him to the playscape. That's good right? But, she brings him home, running for the bathroom to vomit, because guess why? Someone pushed him so much on the tire swing he was sick! She did have other people with her, but it's a mothers responsibility to make sure those people don't make your child sick. Grrr! For court tomorrow, she wants her son to look nice. So, she went and bought him a suit. She called me and asked who was taking him to court. I said we were seeing as though he lives here. She told me she wanted him to look nice and would I put a suit on him. It took me about a second to see red! You're not taking your son to a horse and pony show. She has never put a suit on him before, why now for show? If you want to show what a good mother you are, you should have taken your parenting classes and finished your G.E.D. at the beginning of this fiasco and completed it quickly! But let's put a suit on him. And to top it off............... I used to be a smoker, I quit over 2 yrs. ago, she smokes and I'm getting to be one of those ex smokers I didn't want to be........ she stinks and everything that comes from her house or car stinks badly of cigarettes. She brought a suit, shirt and tie that smells so badly! I cannot take my Grandson to court smelling like an ash tray. I shouldn't have to do it, but I considered getting over myself and washing it, but of course the suit is dry clean only. I'm not doing it. I have done so much for our difficult child already in caring for her son, and there is no respect or appreciation for it, only grief. Our Grandson looks nice every day when he leaves our home, he'll go to court looking like a little boy. And he'll be clean and smell nice. That was a little more than you asked for, but there, now you know! Ha.[/B][/B] [/QUOTE]
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