George called Crazy back and said that Miss B is welcome to come spend the weekend with us. And while she is here we will take her shopping for some school clothes.

Crazy’s response? “Well, then we’ll just have to go to court.”

A little background information- a few years ago George and Crazy went to court to have child support stopped. Well, not actually stopped, just no longer run through the court system. Crazy and George came up with their own agreed upon amount for child support. Each year George gives Crazy X amount of dollars in one check. Which she then blows in about a month. Actually, I don’t know that- it’s just an assumption on my part.

Anyways, things were going fine. Then this year George decided to start his own business and talked to Crazy before leaving his secure job to try out this new venture. He told her he didn’t know how things were going to go and wanted to know if she would be agreeable about taking less money for her yearly payment. She agreed to half of the previous agreed upon amount. It was also stated that if things were going well with George’s new business that he would be happy to help out as much as he could.

How has the new business been going? Okay- but certainly not great. We don’t have an extra $300 right now to give her for school clothes. Even if we had it, $300 is way too much.

Honestly- in the past when I was working I used to spend a lot of money on Miss B for her back to school clothes. I’m sure I spent more than $300 some years. But, after I became a stay at home mom we didn’t have that extra money to spend on school clothes. And since Miss B has not grown in the last year- she’s 16, and all of her clothes from last year still fit her, I don’t see any reason to spend $300 on back to school clothes.

I called Crazy to try to talk to her about keeping things out of the court system. Sometimes her and I can talk and sort things out. I emailed her as well. But she isn’t answering me.