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#41
Hi everyone, It's been awhile but my thoughts & prayers are always with y'all.
Well, it doesn't seem possible but 10 years have passed since this mess began. DGD & DGS#1 will both graduate in 13 days. Thank God :) The old timers here know the crap the pbfh has put us through. Long story short, she has ODD, & multiple undiagnosed psychiatric issues. She has gone as long as 2 years without seeing or talking to the kids when we lived 11 miles away. Now that we are 10 hours away, she calls & tells them how much she misses them & how horrible their dad is for taking them so far away from her. (his job transfered him) Her CS is figured at minium wage from 2002. She rarely pays because she rarely works. He has never persued it. She often tells the kids that their dad doesn't want them. He only took them so he could get the CS.

At the time of his transfer, she was under a very restricted visitation order, due to abuse, 3 hours a week on Saturday afternoons, which she rarely used. He didn't go to court to change anything, just switched to standard LD visitation. She has screwed that up too. Now comes the problem. She has convinced DGD to not go to college here but to come back to TX & live with her. DGD has decided to do it. To top everything off, pbfh is prego. She is supposed to come for graduation & take DGD back with her. She will also take DGS#2 back for his month of summer visitation. DGS#1 has a job & will stay here. My son has told her that if she disappoints them, he will not send DGS#2, who is 13, there anymore. If she wants to see him, she will have to come here or send money for plane ticket or pay her CS. He doesn't have to send the older 2 anymore.

We think she is setting up to tell the kids that the doctor won't let her make the trip. She is about 4.5 months prego & last week told them that she had to go to a dr. 150 miles away & he said there is a problem with the baby. We don't believe her. She is on medicaid & they aren't gonna send her that far unless there was a critical issue. She lives in a big city with many excellant doctors & hospitals. She has treated each of her pregnancies like a critical disease rather than a condition.

She has always been anti education & tried from the time DGD turned 15 to convince her to quit school, that it isn't important. She also tried it with DGS#1, who she kidnapped, once. We have fought hard to get them to graduation. When they came home from Christmas visitation, DGS#2 told us that he doesn't want to graduate, that school isn't important & that he plans to drop out as soon as he can. I guess she decided to start earlier with him.

I don't know if anyone has any input but it is welcome. I guess we mainly needs lots of prayers & good thoughts sent this way over the next 2 weeks.
#42
Visitation Issues / Re: Problem solved
Feb 26, 2011, 12:12:12 PM
Thanks Gemini3, I will print the list & take it to the store with me. Just figured that since yogurt feeds the healthy flora & fauna, giving it may help him as he goes through this & sure can't hurt. We got the greek yogurt as it has way more protein than the regular & tastes better too. Cost more too. LOL but what the heck.
#43
Visitation Issues / Problem solved
Feb 26, 2011, 11:19:52 AM
I guess there will be no problem with holding spring break after all. It is not a good thing but will eliminate the issue. DGS#2 is pretty sick & will not be well enough even by then to make the 12 hour trip. Sept of '09, he got a very bad case of swine flu. It really trashed his immune system. Since then he has caught any & everything he has been unknowingly exposed to. Recently he developed a large lump on the side of his neck. We took him to the dr & they said they thought he had cat scratch fever. Reasonable since they have two 7 month old kittens. They did a bunch of blood work & when it came back, the doc said he is literally a fly tape for disease. He has Mono, Human Parvo Virus, something called CMV (I think), don't know what that is. And the lump is a staff infection in his gland. Also the cat scratch fever.
Poor little guy. He is allowed to go to school but no PE, sports, or anything strenuous. He must take a nap after school & go to the nurse & lay down if he feels bad. He is on high doses of antibiotics for a month & if lump has not gone down, they will surgically drain it. He had just had his first Jarate compitition & placed in 2 categories. Now no Karate till he is all better. Rough on a 12 year old. We are also giving him yogurt as a med, that is 2 tablespoons 3 times daily to help rebuild him, along with a bunch of vitamins.
Please keep him in your prayers. I'll keep y'all posted.
#44
General Issues / Re: To Waylon and old timers
Feb 26, 2011, 10:41:56 AM
Grazer, good to hear things are going well for you. I still wander in from time to time. Same problems, just with pbfh & youngest now.
Take care, msme
#45
Father's Issues / Re: Karma At Last
Feb 22, 2011, 04:54:23 PM
Even better, besides her address, he has friends in the sheriffs office back there. Hopefully theyn don't even have to wait for her to be served. They just have to see it on the computer. SOMEONE just might tell them to look. Hehehe!!!
#46
Father's Issues / Karma At Last
Feb 22, 2011, 03:47:05 PM
After all these years, gr8dad may finally get a fair shake! He just got word that pbfh didn't show up at her CS delinquency hearing today. After years of total lieniency & consideration by the court, she really blew it. When she didn't show, the judge immediately issued a bench warrant for her arrest. Her bail is to be her total arrearage. I'm not sure how much it is but it is way over $5,000.That Karma sure can put a smile on ones face!!!   Oh yeah, she is pregnant.
#47
Visitation Issues / Re: Withholding visitation
Feb 06, 2011, 06:32:53 AM
The CO was done in about 2002 or 2003 when she was very violent & causing all kinds of problems. It states that she gets 3 hours a week from 2 to 5 on Saturday afternoon. It was done when CPS, The kids therapist & the schooler counselor tried to get visitation stopped or at least supervised. The judge was a man hater who said, "The bonds between a mother & her child should never be broken." I guess she figured it was okay to break the kids, just not the bond. (she is no longer a judge, we weren't the only family she messed up) The original CO has not been changed in court. He just sent them.

We moved here in August of 09. She hadn't seen them in several months, even though she lived about 11 miles away. She hadn't shown up for visitation because she had kidnapped the oldest boy that previous April. Nothing big happened because she only had him for about 5 hours, when we found them  & she blamed it all on him. Said he told her to do it. That outcome is another long story.

Anyway, when he gave her notice of his transfer, all of a sudden, she became super mom. She came out to the ranch a lot & he gave her pretty liberal space because for some goofy reason the kids still love her inspite of all she has done. We have never trashed her or tried to teach the kids to hate her, even though it would have been so easy. He sent written notice offering her choice of Christmas or Thanksgiving. She didn't respond. Right after Thanksgiving, he told her since she didn't choose he would take Christmas. He told her he would bring them for spring break & he did. She pulled some sneaky crap then too, but that is another long story.

He then gave her a month this past summer. She missed 2 weeks of that, by her own choice. She arranged to have them dropped at her sisters house which is half way so that they could see their grandmother. She was supposed to arrive 2 days after we dropped them. She never showed up for 2 weeks. And then only came because her sister was screaming about having to feed them. She called gr8dad, asking for money for food. He told the sister if PBFH didn't come by that Saturday, he would come get them Sunday. She showed up Saturday night.

He sent them for this past Christmas & as I said in the first post she really messed up DGD. Things are back on track with DGD's education & he doesn't want her to get another shot at DGD. Also he said if you take the 3 hours a week & multiply it out, between Spring break, Christmas, & Summer, she has gotten all her 3 hour visits for many a year. LOL

DGD will be 19, & DGS#1 will be 18 in March. DGS#2 will be 13 in May. DGD is headed to college, inspite of significant learning disabilities & her mother. DGS#1 is seriously considering the military. Super mom is trying to convenience him to come work under the table for her boyfriend, who works under the table for his families construction company. They paid him $5 an hour one day during Christmas visit. He thought it was great, until we explained that he could make over $7 an hour working at McDonalds.

The PBFH has tried for the last 3 years to get DGD to quit school, telling her it isn't important to graduate. I guess when she was unsuccessful at that, she figured she can get her to quit college if she is away from gr8dad's influence. DGS#1 came home from Christmas talking about quitting & he is halfway through Senior year. gr8dad nipped that in the bud. DGS#2 came home talking about how school isn't important & he will quit as soon as he is old enough. We have handled that gently & just keep reinforcing good grades. Yeah, she is a real Mother alright.

Anyway, if he can avoid this visit, he will only have to send DGS#2 this summer. The only way she will see the older ones again, will be if she pays for it, or they do. Thanks again for any and all advice or suggestions.
#48
Visitation Issues / Withholding visitation
Feb 05, 2011, 11:11:41 AM
Hi Kitty & all,

Here we go again. I know that CS & Visitation are 2 different issues but sometimes they cross. Pbfh has not paid 1 cent of child support in nearly 2 years. CS is figured on minimum wage in 2004, I think. She is currently thousands in arrears. Gr8dad was transferred in August of 09. He has taken them back 3 or 4 times for visitation. She has continued to cause grief, playing with their heads as usual.

The current visitation order is from when we lived near her. It gives her 3 hours a week on Saturday afternoon. 90% of the time she didn't show up for that. When we moved He started to do routine long distance visitation. They were there for Christmas. She wants them for Spring Break. She got them last years Spring Break.

Gr8dad doesn't have enough money to send them. He plans to tell her that if she sends 2 months CS, he will use it to send them. It seems more than fair to me but I don't want him to get in trouble. Her CS for 3 kids is $200 a month plus $70 towards arrearages. Pretty pathetic, huh? DGS#1 is a power lifter & it costs more than that to feed him for a month. LOL

This is the last year gr8dad has to send the 2 oldest. They will graduate HS in May. DGD got a Softball Scholarship to college & at Christmas PBFH convinced her to turn it down & move there with her after graduation. Fortunately gr8dad was able to talk sense into her after she got home.

Any info or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. We live in MS now but old order is in TX.

Hope this finds all my old friends well & enjoying their kidletts. Hugs to all.
#49
Father's Issues / Re: I find out that
Sep 14, 2009, 12:54:19 AM
I'm confused. If you have custody, why does she have the kids?
#50
Lucky & Kitty, Thanks for your support.
His dr. is back in Texas. The services around here are not terrific & it's hard to get into the system. He seems to be back in control since the blow up the other night. He is getting up & taking his meds on time without being told. I just checked & he took his evening meds without being told. This is a big improvement. His dad had a long talk with him Saturday morning & I think they made some headway. He has agreed to let us use a key phrase to give him a chance to get control, if we see things deteriorating. He is really such a good kid. One of his biggest problems is no self-esteem & feelings of no self worth. He also has some bi-polar tendencies & possibly some ODD.

gr8dad has good insurance but the nearest facility is more than 75 miles away. We are going to try to keep it local if we can. They have an intensive therapy program here that includes 3 group sessions & 2 private sessions every week. as well a visit to their school. We are trying to get him into that.

Kitty, I can't believe your DS is 18. I was just remembering how when I first found this site, you were bragging to the newbies how he was flying back & fourth to CA & how safe it was for kids to fly. Boy, it sure doesn't seem like that long. LOL

Anyway, I am glad I decided to come back. I sure missed you guys.