See if I can get it in order here. my dad was previously married when he met my mom whom was also previously married with 2 young children. They got together and then had me. my dad raised the kids as his own until they were grown and married. here comes the tricky part.

my mom dies and he remarries a nice lady, who dies after 14 yrs. now dad is not young man he is 83 yrs old.

this is the part that grosses me out. Last March (07) he marries my sister. I have issues with this for couple of reasons, he raised her and was only father she knew, and she is my sister. true we only share mother but still. It is so bad that our brother and I do not speak to them at all.
so now my sister is my stepmom, and her kids are not only my nieces and nephews but siblings now.

my cousin got pregnant and then married the father…a military guy (husband/guy #1). they had baby #1.she was 20. when the hubby was stationed overseas (6 months into the marriage), she cheated on him with another guy (guy #2) and moved in with him and divorced her first husband.

while she was with guy #2, she cheated on him and became pregnant with baby #2, but never told him that he wasn’t the father. they eventually split up, but his name was on baby #2’s birth certificate.

in the meantime, guy #2 took up with another girl, but she found out he was cheating on her and shot him with my cousin’s gun. guy #2 is now paralyzed from the neck down and lives in a nursing home.

cousin then moved and met another military guy who she then married (husband/guy #3)and he loved her kids as his own. in fact, he adopted baby #2 from the paralyzed supposed father. they then had another baby…baby #3.

so, 3 kids with 3 different fathers so far.

well, then, husband #3 got really sick and my cousin could not handle it…so, she cheated on him. he found out and went a little psycho but decided they should try to work it out and stay together.

wait…it gets better. they come down to stay at my house with the 2 younger children so that my cousin can go to her high school reunion. husband #3 decides to stay home with us. well, 4:00 in the morning rolls around and cousin is still not home, so hubby #3 starts to freak out. eventually, we see a car roll up my street and park a block away. hubby #3 starts to go outside to see if it is her and I talk him out of it…instead, I go!! and yes, you guessed it…she was in the car with some guy having sex with him!!

I opened the car door and yanked her out and told her to get dressed and in the house. In the meantime, hubby #3 is running around my house looking for a baseball bat. that was a fun night let me tell you!!

Needless to say, I don’t talk to my cousin any longer…but, I do still keep in touch with her ex-hubby #3. She is now re-married and has 2 more children with the new guy!!

He rants for an hour about these and many other sins I had committed including the time “you told me I wasn’t a very good dad,” which was true, I had an honest moment once.

After trying to placate him saying, you can invite whoever you want, I don’t know your friends, blah blah blah, he starts saying – well who knows how long you’ll even stay married, your mom’s been married three times, your aunts on her third marriage and who knows how many times your grandma’s been married, at which point I tell him I’m hanging up. He calls back and of course I hang up on him.

He sends his rsvp back checked No and his name entered as Joe Blow (dad). — Cause I don’t know who he is.

My oldest brother, having been told my our dad that he doesn’t have the money to drive across the state to the wedding, buys him a plane ticket. I call my brother saying, “Butt out,” and my dad too saying, “Maybe you should stick with your first decision.”

He comes to the wedding. He tells my second brother that he’s on tranquilizers.

I have a few more for when I get upped…

I’ve been reading your blog for years. You get funnier every year ;o)

blessings to you, Esther

but let me think about this overnight. i’ve spent the last ten years removing myself from this side of my family.