This is Douley our greyhound. He is terribly frightened of rainstorms. He sits at the top of the stairway landing and pants. It is really sad to see.

Yesterday evil sister failed to take the kids to their VERY LAST session of religious education. She then played it off like it was my fault -- I was supposed to know her school had conferences last night. Dammit she is a bitch. The school called her house so her husband picked them up. He dropped them off at our house just a few minutes before my husband was going to walk over to get them. I'm so annoyed. I couldn't even take it out on him -- it was her damn fault. I didn't bite his head off (I thanked him for stepping to the plate) and was big about it "Well, at least we won't have to worry about this anymore, this was the last week." Smile, chuckle.

So she calls me while I'm eating dinner and I didn't bother to answer. She left no message. I called back and she questioned why I didn't know she had conferences. I reminded her of how a few weeks ago I was the one who told her there were only 2 more sessions left. Fucking bitch could have reminded or told me about her fucking conferences then. But she didn't. Now she's playing it like she did. Fucking sick of her.

She used to be the first person on our list to raise our kids if the husband and I died. Now I'm not so sure. If she wasn't so evil and selfish -- but that is what she has become. Now if we both died and our kids survived it would be a huge ugly battle between our families. What is sad is that I'm becoming so alienated from her that it is difficult to see her "good mom" potential. Now I'm looking at my brothers in a whole new light. How strange life is...