Family Forum / Parenting / Step Parents / May 2004

Really.  But all year, I do the same thing at games.  I take the baby, we
sit on the bleachers until he gets restless, then we move to the other side
of the diamond until he gets restless, then we go home.

BM has _seen_ this at every game.  And don't tell me she hasn't noticed.

Yesterday, she sat right next to the woman I usually sit next to once I've
moved from the bleachers.  I assume that meant she wanted to sit by me (-:

Actually, I'm just so sick of the dramatics I don't care anymore.  So I did
what I always do, ended up sitting 2/3 of the game within 3 feet of her.  I
said hello - she didn't.  SS asked me for water, I didn't have any.  She got
up without a word and took him her drink.  When SS got run over on first
because he was straddling the base, I asked her if he had finished her
drink, she said yes.  I asked the other woman to watch my stuff while I ran
to get some more water from the snack bar.  BM snarls "I'll get it."  Lady
next to us gives me bug eyes, I shrug.  BM talks to SS, comes back, sits
down, doesn't get water.  So I do.  Took it over, SS drinks it right down.
Whatever.

Thankfully, the baby was good (and especially cute, if I do say so myself)
the whole time.

SS calls to me from the dugout, asks me if I'll give him money for a base
hit.  I say "okay, you money-grubbing little fiend" - in retrospect,
probably not the best thing to say with his mom right there, but again, oh
well.

I assume if sitting by me was dampening her enjoyment of the game, she would
have moved, right?

rebecca