PT-LawMom

I am so irritated. Let me start this off by saying that I love my parents but right now I sure don’t like them very much. My mother is 58. She doesn’t work. Even though she should. She’s just given up. So you’d think she’d stay home and take care of the house, the bills, my kid, etc. Nope. They pay for a housecleaner and I pay an obscene amount of money for after-care for my son. That’s not to say that my parents don’t help out a lot with Pumpkinhead. But I spend a ton of unnecessary funds while she sits home…

This morning I am sitting here, greasy and stinky, because for the THIRD TIME since I moved in with them last summer, the water is shut off. Because, oh yeah, my Mom “forgot” to pay the bill. She “forgets” to pay the cable, the water, the electricity. My Dad is an engineer. He makes $100k+. Where is the money going? WTF?!?!

I am sooooo sick of this. She bitches all the time about how tired she is and how much energy my son has and how he wears her out. She won’t let his little friend from across the street come over because they are “too much”. She takes money from my account for groceries I never eat because I’m always working and rarely home (and I buy food for Pumpkinhead’s school lunches myself).

Sure, I could get an apartment. But I just got a $600 bill from freaking Sallie Mae, I have a Big Ass Truck payment of $600, just realized I have to consider what the hell I will do with Pumpkinhead this summer when daycare expenses go up even more, and the house still hasn’t sold or rented. Oh and I have no idea what my formerly good credit report looks like since Chapin stopped paying all of his bills three months ago. (We took my name off but I think the law says that if you were on as a cosigner it doesn’t matter… scared to look, but I should probably get the hell over that).

I haven’t been freaking out about any of this. I’ve been moving along, enjoying life, happy that I have a job and a place to stay. Counting my blessings, as they say. Yes, I realize I could have it So Much Worse!! But I want a shower, damn it. And my kid didn’t get a bath last night. And my car payment is due this week. ARGH!!!