Ms Elizabeth's Journal, 25 November 2013

I need to vent. Over the weekend we had two girls from Hubbies side come over and play with my daughter. One is a relative and the other is the relatives girlfriends daughter. Everything was great until they went home. That's when we discovered my daughters Ipod was missing. We tore the house apart. We even combed through rooms the girls didn't even go into just in case her little brother got ahold of it. We took bags and bags of old clothes, toys, etc. out of the house to be donated just so we didn't have to comb through as much. Furniture was moved, tables were polished, floors were swept and mopped to the point that I'm pretty sure my back will never be the same.
This was when the relatives girlfriends daughter asked if she could come back and spend the night. I said sure. We were still looking, still cleaning, and tearing everything apart. She gets there and says the relatives daughter took the ipod. She thought it would be funny, showed it to the other girl, and laughed. So we now know the relative has it. It's obviously not in the house. I call her dad and he asks her and she denies taking it. End of story??? I don't think so. I want the ipod back. The little girl keeps claiming she didn't take it despite the fact that she had it last, someone saw her with it after she left the house, and well it's gone!

Her dad still seems to think this is all fine and dandy. I want to strangle the man. There really isn't squat that I can do at this point. I told hubby. I talked to the girls dad. And now instead of getting my daughter the presants I planned on for xmas it looks like I am going to have to shell out way more money than I was planning and get her a new ipod. I've already listened to the girl cry for 2 days now. She's always left it at the house, listened to the rules about not taking it out of the case, stopped letting her brother play with it after he threw it the first time. We now have a 15 hour car ride coming up in 4 days. No ipod which would have kept the 9 yr old entertained for HOURS. Heck she entertains her brother with it.

I'm pissed. I'm beyond pissed. I don't want this man or any of his kids over anymore at this point. It's one thing for your kid to steal. It's another thing as a parent when there is proof your kid took something and you just shrug your shoulders.

I can't even go to the gym and punch his imaginary face in. I have to run errands for the trip. I need a stress ball. I need to stop drinking coffee. Argh!!