Super Bowl Sunday

WOOO HOO for the NY Giants!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it couldn't have happened to a better team or a better family!

Now for the fun...I've not been really great at this whole journaling thing, I started the year strong and boom stopped and as soon as I stopped journaling my thoughts,venting my feelings and appreciting my blessings I have been an emotional mess, only on the inside, the outside still looks the same...very sad though that I've been struggling and knew all along the only thing that i needed to do was pick up my laptop and take 20 mins or so to 'get it all out', let it go, give to God/the universe.

The challenges that I'm having are challenges that every other parent and step parent have but some are different. My mom for example, i wrote a long letter and email attaching TinMan's latest report card and the consequences for said report card and I must've really hit home because she brought him home on time last night, even was nice enough to let me know they were on their way home. I feel blessed that she did that...yes, she should but I really appreciate her doing what I asked, it shows TinMan that she respects me, my word and what I'm trying to do for him and he in turn will respect me a little more. I never thought that TinMan adn I had a respect problem but I'm realizing that we do and I'm changing that. He has a lying problem that I'm hoping is just normal teen stuff and that here shortly...like now LOL he'll realize that telling us the truth about some things (nothing like drugs or sex or any of the bad stuff) that he's freeing himself from the burden or that he'll realize that tellling us the truth isn't really that bad. Can someone tell me if this whole parenting thing gets easier?!

I feel like i'm drowning and that I'm 'fighting' and uphill battle....my other challenge is Witch....she is just weird to me. If I try to explain the story that Wizard told me I'll screw it up but the gist is this she has manipulated Munchkin so badly that he's holding his poop and therefore constipating himself so that he can try and go poop in the potty so he can get a Thomas and Friends train called Emily; Glenda figured this out because he's been having issues pooping and he's NEVER had any issues and his diet hasn't changed and she said that she realized what was happening on Friday because when Witch got home he took off his pants and his diaper and ran to the bathroom and said I get Emily mommy....and Glenda said he had pooped himself badly that day...guess he couldn't hold any longer. HE even told me tonight that he had to go potty and if he did he would get Emily....mommmy said. how sick is that? what kind of person does that? We haven't even begun to potty train, he's 2 1/2 and honestly he's not ready, he's getting there but he's not ready; but Wizard says that Witch wants Munchkin to use the potty before his cousin that is also 2 1/2 so that she wins...some sort of sick game her and his sister in law have going on and have had going on for the last 10 + years. I just feel bad for Munchkin, Witch isn't willing to try any of the 'normal' stuff, her words were 'I think he's going to need more motivation'...I'm wondering how she could possibly know when we haven't tried anything?! I'm frustrated about this...and honestly I cried, I felt so bad for Munchkin, he's two and he just not ready. I just don't understand and what I have to remember is that I can not control her...just my reaction to her...ugh.