That is really the only reaction I can come up with to what happened this past weekend. This is going to be long so bare with me.
I'll start with some background info. My babysitter (love her!) is paid through county assistance and only works 3 days a week. This usually works out great for me because in a work week, I typically work 1 weekend day and 3 week days. Shane and I have it set up so that he has Brenna the weekends I work and then she goes to Tia's (the babysitter) through the week.
Well this past sched. was a little messed up and this week I was working 4 days during the week. Shane had Brenna this past weekend so I asked him if he minded keeping Brenna one extra day (until Mon. night) so that I didn't have to worry about finding a sitter. He said "sure" ... two weeks ago when I orig. asked him and then again on Friday when I reminded him.
Well I'm going through my weekend. I worked Saturday and everything was fine. Sunday I had off because of being sched. for Monday so I went over to Chad's house and did a bunch of laundry. Around 6:30 pm I'm driving back into town and my phone tells me I have a voicemail. (there is no signal at Chad's) I check it and it's a message from Shane. This is exactly (give or take a few words) what it said...
"I have to bring Brenna back tonight. "She" doesn't want her here any more because she's coughing and well, because I didn't tell her soon enough".
and that was it. I tried to call him back and didn't get an answer so I call home to check on Haley to find out that Brenna had already been dropped off with her! ... without having ever made sure he got in touch with me.
So here it is, almost 7pm, and I have no one to watch Brenna so I can work in the morning. I called his mom and told her what happened but she was busy and couldn't help.
I don't know who I'm angry at ... His wife for saying she doesn't want my kid at their house or him for flaking out on me. And what really gets me is that I JUST had a conversation with her where she went on and on about how she wishes Shane would be more of a father to her first daughter and then she prevents him from parenting his natural child. Also, she told me how bad she felt that they hadn't been able to pay me child support yet and then she goes and takes my hours at work away from me and puts my job on the line. If you really cared about how we were doing financially, you wouldn't take away from what supports us. Grrrrr. The whole situation just has me fuming.
I'll start with some background info. My babysitter (love her!) is paid through county assistance and only works 3 days a week. This usually works out great for me because in a work week, I typically work 1 weekend day and 3 week days. Shane and I have it set up so that he has Brenna the weekends I work and then she goes to Tia's (the babysitter) through the week.
Well this past sched. was a little messed up and this week I was working 4 days during the week. Shane had Brenna this past weekend so I asked him if he minded keeping Brenna one extra day (until Mon. night) so that I didn't have to worry about finding a sitter. He said "sure" ... two weeks ago when I orig. asked him and then again on Friday when I reminded him.
Well I'm going through my weekend. I worked Saturday and everything was fine. Sunday I had off because of being sched. for Monday so I went over to Chad's house and did a bunch of laundry. Around 6:30 pm I'm driving back into town and my phone tells me I have a voicemail. (there is no signal at Chad's) I check it and it's a message from Shane. This is exactly (give or take a few words) what it said...
"I have to bring Brenna back tonight. "She" doesn't want her here any more because she's coughing and well, because I didn't tell her soon enough".
and that was it. I tried to call him back and didn't get an answer so I call home to check on Haley to find out that Brenna had already been dropped off with her! ... without having ever made sure he got in touch with me.
So here it is, almost 7pm, and I have no one to watch Brenna so I can work in the morning. I called his mom and told her what happened but she was busy and couldn't help.
I don't know who I'm angry at ... His wife for saying she doesn't want my kid at their house or him for flaking out on me. And what really gets me is that I JUST had a conversation with her where she went on and on about how she wishes Shane would be more of a father to her first daughter and then she prevents him from parenting his natural child. Also, she told me how bad she felt that they hadn't been able to pay me child support yet and then she goes and takes my hours at work away from me and puts my job on the line. If you really cared about how we were doing financially, you wouldn't take away from what supports us. Grrrrr. The whole situation just has me fuming.
Only a pathetic excuse for a man does not stand up to his wife when it comes to his child. I'm sorry he treated you this way and that he put upon not only you, but Haley too. 
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I don't know what to tell you about Shane. He's a 
