thank God that weekend is over...

It was a long weekend with the kids. Since it was so nice on Friday we decided to take the kids to the zoo. It was a beautiful, almost hot, 80 degrees. We mostly went to see the new dinosaur exhibit at Brookfield Zoo and it was SO COOL!

We had Rylee since Thursday night, and by Saturday she was ready to go back home to her mom's (again a.k.a. the house with no rules). She began to be very crabby/whiny and refused to eat any of her vegetables on Saturday and Sunday. This is an on going battle with her, and we used to kind of let it go. Now it has become extremely apparent that this girl eats nothing but crap with her mother, and now Gary is stuck being the bad cop trying to force her to do these things. It makes me sad for him that she is only 5 years old and already does not like coming over here. We thought her having a sister would change things a little, but she obviously does not like not being the center of attention. It is hard for me as a "Step-Mom" to deal with it because I don't know where to draw the line. I have a feeling that she is not going to like me much as she gets older. I have to be consistent because of Zach and Brienna. I would not want her to believe that she has special treatment over here, and then as the other two get older they feel left out or that they can act the same way. In all honesty, I worry a lot about what it is going to be like as Rylee gets older, and Brienna starts to look up to her. Rylee's mother has laid a horrible foundation for her as a female. Hopefully I will be wrong and she will bounce back from all of this, but only time will tell.