OK so a lot has happened since I was on here last. Kaid was upset a few weeks ago when we were getting ready to take him home. We asked him what he was so pissed off at. He told us that he didn't want to go home. Of course my heart breaks knowing that there is nothing that we can do about it. Jeremy talked to him about him standing up for himself and telling her that he is going to live here. So he decided he was going to confront her. That is huge. He never wants to cause conflict. He was able to stay an extra night to prepare himself for this "intervention" of sorts. The next day we head down and Jeremy walked with him up to the house. Kaid was able to get his mom outside to talk so that his dad was there to support him. Guess what happened! You guessed it. She started yelling at Jeremy and telling him that he is just Kaid's playmate and that he doesn't know what is best for Kaid. Jeremy told her that this was about Kaid not him. Kaid tried to get her attention by telling her that it wasn't about her or his dad. It was about him. She again started attacking Jeremy's character and his role as a father. She told him that he is only there when it is fun. PAUSE: Time for a rewind. Kaids baptism, we were living in California at the time and called to ask her when it would be. She told him that she would let us know. Of course no information. We missed it. Kaid being ordained a Teacher, we told Kaid that we wanted to be there. He wanted his dad to do the blessing. Did we know when and where? Nope. They called him into the Bishops office after church without him knowing why and ordained him. He didn't know that he could tell them no. His Jr. High graduation, we did make it to that. However, we had to investigate it and get the information ourselves. That is her job. She is responsible to let us know when there are things going on like that. The graduation was easy for us to find info on, but the church stuff is not that easy. I even called the Bishop about his baptism and asked for him to give us the info and he didn't return my call. PLAY:So now Kaid is trying to get her attention, Jeremy is trying to ignore her and her husband comes outside and gets in Jeremy's face telling him to get off their property. Jeremy ignored him, but soon realized that they were not going to listen and that it could get out of hand. So he grabbed Kaid around the waist and pulled him away so that he could tell him good bye. Kaid was resistant and really wanted her to listen to him. When they got to the car, Kaid tried to get into the car to leave with us. Jeremy tells him that he can't. We have to do it right.I was crying in the car knowing what was going to happen when we left. I can't understand how a mother can disregard her child so easily. Needless to say Kaid was locked in the house again. He would sneek out of the house and go to his uncles house to call Jeremy every night so that we knew he was ok. Moral of the story: If you have a child with someone, please realize you are not the only one in that child's life. There is another parent. If that other parent wants to be a part of the child's life let them. These kids are going though enough without the parents complicating it more. Emotions are easy to take over in a situation like this believe me. I wanted nothing more then to get out of the car and yell at her to listen to her son. Ultimately we have to be the ones to set an example. The step parent is just a soft place to fall when everything else gets crazy.