Online Hotel Supply

I was looking up bar supplies to buy my husband a good supply of nice glasses when I came across PeachSuite and their hotel bar supplies...which reminded me of our vacation that didn't quite happen.  The hotel where we stay on vacation is in the middle of a total renovation. My husband and I were going to go as a "late honeymoon" (17+ years later but it would have been the first time we got away without the kids by ourselves) in June but they won't have their rooms ready. Anyway, I got sidetracked...

PeachSuite also offers kitchen supplies, janitorial supplies, furniture, office, banquet, signs and more. It's a great site for hotel supply online (and I had fun checking out some of their kitchen equipment - I blew our hand mixer up and want a commercial-grade, countertop mixer that I can't break).

If you are in the Atlanta area and are looking for Atlanta hotel supply, or anywhere within the United States or Canada, they ship.  If you spend $500 (and let's face it, a hotel can spend that EASILY!), they offer free shipping.

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Well, crap, they (well, she) almost came over!

My husband got briefly excited last week when he received a text from his daughter asking him if he could take that night off from work and come get them in their state. I say "briefly" because it was very brief.  The "them" wasn't my stepdaughter and stepson.  It was my stepdaughter and her boyfriend.  To spend the night at our house.  With our young kids in the house.  Something she has been told isn't allowed (sleepovers with a boyfriend). To then turn around and drive them to a concert that is hours away from our house.

Ohhhhhhh, that's why you wanted to come over.  There was a concert in our state she wanted to see.  Not dad.

That's why I said briefly.

The glow died fairly quickly when she found out dad threw his back out that day and had called into work because he could barely move and was in a lot of pain. So you can't come get us?  Really?!?!

Actually, dad would have sat in a car 5-6 hours round trip to get his kids here, while in pain, if they were actually coming HERE to visit HIM. THEY weren't. Only one was, with a guest, for a concert - ONLY. But to do that and then to turn around and sit in a car for another six hours on top of it to drop them off at a concert?

No.

She didn't want to come HERE. She wanted the concert.  So, she didn't come. Had she wanted to come here to visit her father and siblings without another motive, he would have hopped into that car in pain there and back to do it.

He asked her if she wanted to come over on her spring break.

*crickets*

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11 more child support payments until the LEGAL relationship ends with the ex. To say we are excited is an understatement!

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It's Been Forever

When I disengage, I disengage! I took a break (ok, it was a super long one).

I am getting excited though. Our legal tie to the ex ends this year! We are excited. It has been a long time coming and now we are into out last year and a dozen child support payments left.

I will learn to do cartwheels just for that date!

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Keep Adult SD on Insurance?

Our medical insurance has a fund maximum and once you meet that, you have to pay 100% up to a certain amount. My daughter was in the ER for second degree burns not too long ago to her hand and that entire visit will now come out of our pocket. Ack.

Now if my adult stepdaughter was not on our insurance as her secondary provider (her mother's insurance is primary), we would not have a huge medical bill for this ER visit heading our way right now for our minor daughter. We will be paying this bill off for at least the next year or two! My adult stepdaughter used up a chunk of our fund on her psychiatrist appointments her dad has no say in and that she doesn't need when she is here...she apparently needs them when she lives with her mother. Pfft...should tell her something.

This irritates me. The adult child who disses her dad and thinks he doesn't do enough to financially support her adult self has no friggen clue what she still costs us as an adult while she gripes about us not paying to support her (get an actual job comes to mind).

We have no court order for her anymore so I don't think she has to be on our insurance? It is our choice, right? She does have coverage with her mother.

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