I'm half-annoyed, half-amused at my younger daughter. She gave me a detailed list of why she hates me and doesn't want to live with me ad would rather live with her father - chief among them are the spiders running rampant in the house here and the fact that their dad just bought a huge flat-screen HD tv.
So to keep her happy, I need to pay $800 - 1200 to an exterminator and then drop $1500 at Best Buy?
Nice.
I am annoyed by her transparent attempts to use manipulation to get what she wants and to play on my fear of losing her forever to her dad.
I know that young kids rarely appreciate or even acknowledge all the things their parents (especially their moms) do for them, and I've come to accept that. If, some 20 years down the road, they realize how much I have done and will always do for them, that'll be great, but in the meantime I have to find some way of not getting angry over this - particularly since I DO fear that their dad will try an end run to gain full custody.
"Gee, the kid doesn't even want to live with her own Mommy! What a terrible person must she be so that her own child doesn't love her?"
*sigh*
How can I get rid of these ******* spiders, anyway?