the flip

Last week, Mother's day, the 5 year old's Mother was no where to be found. She had left upset with the boy friend because she wasn't going to be able to see one of her kids, or so she says. Her mother saw the child for at least 3 hours later in the day. So she leaves her other two kids to themselves without so much as a call. She doesn't call all week. We assume she is with the boy friend at his current out of town job. She calls Friday night like nothing has occurred. I question her, she says let me talk to the 5 year old and then I will talk to you. She talks to her daughter, and is asked, when are you coming to see me, where have you been? I miss you. She tells her that she will be here to go with her to the out of town field trip next week. We'll see. She gives the phone back to me. She tells me that she has been very busy trying to get a place to live, working on the internet while out of town. I asked her if she wasn't working any more. She said she wasn't going to work this summer but was going to keep the boy friend's child and HER KIDS this summer. I wonder how she thinks that will happen. She goes on to say what a horrible Mother's Day she had and how she had to get away. That she lost it. That she just could not take not seeing her child on mother's day. having to ask to see her children when she has done everything she was supposed to do for the past 18 months and is still no better off that she was when she started out. I told her that she had to get some counseling and that she could get it at the VOA for free or for very cheap with her diagnosis. She says she has an appointment there on Tuesday. We'll see. She has no idea how what she does and how she lives looks from the outside looking in. She is so scattered and inconsistent. Up and down. Here and gone. I don't care if she keeps her boy friends child, but she is not keeping the 5 year old at their house. She has to have supervision at her mothers overnight from now on. No sneaking in night a her friends like she has done.