The Family Just Keeps Growing!

Remember young J? Well, he's baaaaack.

As predicted, Sis kicked him out - locked him out of the house to be more precise some time around the last week in January. It was a Wednesday night, and all of the sudden, my mother-in-law is on my back step in a panic. J had called to be picked up from a friend's house because his mother locked him out, and Gram couldn't find it. I took the address, and scooted over to pick him up. We stopped at Targét on the way home and I bought him some fresh skivvies, a couple of T-shirts and a hoodie to get him through the rest of the week. He spent the night with us, and I got him to school the next morning.

Since then, he has been staying at my mother-in-law's house full time - she drives him half way across the county to his school every day, and picks him up every afternoon. (To tell the truth, I am a bit surprised she has stuck with it.) They waited it out to see how long it would take his mother to call and see if he was coming back home. It was almost a week. She then said that if he was going to be a pain in the ass, she didn't really want him back.

So now he has been spending his time at Gram's house. He sleeps in the guest room, has a computer to play on and even gets dinner cooked for him. The problem now is, he's getting lonely. My mother-in-law is not real outgoing, so I don't imagine that they talk much. My bro-in-law works midnights, sleeps all day, then gets up at 8p, takes a shower, fixes his lunch and goes to work. Rinse and repeat.

Thursday night (Valentines day), my mother-in-law made a big lasagne for dinner - so she, and J stayed. Plus my three kids. And my wife. A nice romantic dinner for SEVEN!

J spent the night Friday - he wanted to hang around with the kids. And Saturday. And Sunday. Now he said that he would like Mrs. PFunk to pick him up from school Friday afternoons, so looks like he will be spending his weekends at our house.

Not that I mind that much - they all keep each other busy, and he is mostly helpful. My kids idolize him, so it helps keep them in check. They spent the weekend playing games together on their DS's (I jumped in a little bit too). And since he is spending so much time at our place, and my kids have chores that they do for money, I gave him a chore - Pickin up the poo. So now every week, he does doggy doody duty for a fiver. Money well spent.

We were going to get my daughter a new bed and move hers into the boy's room when Max X got bigger, but now we are accellerating those plans.

I asked my wife last night....how long before someone realizes that J staying with us on weekends doesn't make sense (we live 8 minutes from his school - tops). I give it till the end of March at the latest before he is spending week nights at our house, and I am driving him to school every day.

And who knows what the hell the summer will bring.

Why do I get the feeling that we have picked up yet another pathetic life form? - Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Phantom Menace