The Preteen

I knew having preteens would suck mostly because I was such an awful preteen LOL!

I knew it would be even worse since every once and a while there was a biological mother involved who makes me feel like it's her personal mission to make sure I am unhappy.

Boy I couldn't have been more right!!

My beautiful stepdaughter got in giant trouble the Friday we were taking them up to see their biomom. I told her she would be grounded two days but I obviously couldn't ground her while she was at her mother's house so I made the two days after she came back to be her appointed punishment days. She agreed.

Of course now that she actually has to carry the grounding out she has no recollection of either getting in trouble or agreeing to be grounded when she came back!

She actually told me she thinks I'm making the whole thing up! It's ludicrous to the point of being funny!

I told her if she wants I'll keep a little journal of everything she does to get in trouble so she'll remember and she again accused me of making stuff up to put in it. She must not know me at all! I don't lie as a rule. #1 I'm not smart enough to think of good lies and #2 I have such an awful memory I'd forget what I lied about and screw it up with the truth eventually.

It hurts my feelings that she thinks my sole purpose in life is to keep her in trouble 24/7 but we keep trying to help her to make the right decisions. I swear she makes up ways to create drama in her life. But she's a preteen and there's certain things she just has to deal with on her own. After all, when I was a horrible preteen all I wanted was to be left alone so that's what I'll do!

She's probably one of the reasons I'm loosing my hair LOL!