Sistah Pat

I think DIL is deteriorating.  Scary.  Does that mean she’s doing drugs again or does it mean she’s in a manic state with her bi-polar disorder or does it just mean she’s a sorry-ass bitch?

First, she calls DS and asks him to come and get the boys ”out of her hair” even though it’s not his weekend to have them.  Then, when he picks them up and asks what time to bring them home, she tells him to keep them all weekend.  She sends them without a change of clothes and with a sh*tload of homework for Scout.  His homework was a grid of nine squares, each with a project about a foreign country.  He’s had two weeks to do it and hasn’t even started.  It’s due Wednesday.  He had to pick three “mini-projects” from the grid to make a tic-tac-toe row of three.

We chose a row that included the following:

Create a game about a country in Europe
Make a scrapbook about a country in Europe as if you visited that country as a tourist
Make a list of 5 books about a country in Europe and write a sentence about each telling how it can be used to learn more about that country.

We went shopping and bought a pair of dice, posterboard, markers, a scrapbook, scrapbook stickies about France, paste, etc.  We helped Scout create a game like Trivial Pursuit and make question cards about France.  Decorated the game board and make a trail from the Eiffel Tower to the Arch de Triomphe.  Next, we went surfing on the web and printed out pictures on photo paper about France and helped him write a narrative about his “visit” to match the pictures in the scrapboard.  Decorated it with stickies and glued all the pictures in the book.

DIL was supposed to pick them up at 6:00 yesterday evening and she didn’t show up.  DS called at 6:30 and she said, “I thought you were bringing them home.”  So…he took them home.  First, she notices Scout’s socks and says, “Those aren’t the socks he was wearing when you picked him up.”  DS tells her they’re dirty so he put another pair on him.  She gets upset and starts in about how she just bought those socks.  It’s the first time he’s worn them and she doesn’t appreciate him bringing Scout home wearing and “old” pair.  She wants DS to drive back over here and return his “new” socks, dirty or not, because she just bought them.  DS tells her about the school project and how we did two projects out of the three and tells her Scout needs to go to the library at school and check out five books on France and write them up to complete the other project.  Then she starts ranting about how she doesn’t have time to worry about that and why didn’t he take Scout to the branch library down the road while he had him?

DS comes home and he’s all upset about the damn socks and the project and says he just turned around and walked away.  He said she called after him and told him to put the socks in the mailbox if she wasn’t home when he brought them back.  I asked if he was going to take them over to her and he said he’d give them to her when he returns the kids after this coming weekend.

It doesn’t sound good.