I’ve decided to finally do it. I’m tired of having to ask for money from the sperm donor. It’s like “pulling teeth” for him. I just think that it’s so unfair that he doesn’t pay much. He just pays for half of daycare which I must mention-was late ALL the time. Only these past few months has he been sorta on time. He refuses to pay for the dentist bill if he’ll pay for her glasses. Let me mention that she is under my benefits and I pay for that each month. She is now in 2nd grade and he gave a check only 3 times for her lunch money. I remember when she first started kindergarten and he promised that each time he would bring her back from having her for the weekend, that he would always bring her snacks (juice, etc). That only happened ONE time. Yup, just one time. I haven’t even asked him to help me pay for clothes or necessary clothes for school like shoes I’ve paid for or school uniforms. The kid is growing and her pants start to look like floods over time.
Let me also say that when she does go to the bay to supposedly spend time with him, she’s at her grandparents’ house while he “works” on the weekend…Um…why would you pick her up if you have to work anyway? And that stupid shit he pulled on me last year about when she went to Peru. He said he was going and that they would only stay for 2 weeks. And she came back late-it was like more than a month in Peru so she missed a week of school. And to top that off, his ass never even went with her. She only went his parents!!!!!!!! And he has the nerve to want to take her AGAIN this coming year. NO FRICKIN’ WAY! When she comes back, she frickin’ dark, not even a tan, DARK-Does he even think about skin cancer. She’s been to Peru every gosh darn year since she was 2. Sorry, she is NOT going.
Look, I know he and his family are pretty well off and they want to take her to nice places. Well, not even him, his parents do. And I know that we don’t have much-Ken and I work like any normal married couple. We pay for our bills and we have vacations at times. But even if we don’t have as much as they do, we do our best to give our full attention to Jiselle. We took her to Maui with us when we were on our honeymoon, we took her to Universal Studios this year, and just took her to the State Fair a few weeks ago. I don’t cook as much, but Ken does and loves it. So we make sure she’s fed all the time. We buy our groceries each week to make sure we’re stocked up with food. When we do have extra money and we’re out shopping, we buy her clothes-even if she doesn’t really need it. I recently registered her in Polynesian dancing which I haven’t asked him to pay half for. Her first day of CFF (Catholic Faith Formation) was yesterday afternoon. That was 90 dollars and I did ask for half last week and he hasn’t paid. We discipline her and try to tell her what right from wrong. And when she’s in trouble, we may look like the bad parents, but we definitely mean well. So you can say we’ve been good to Jiselle and try to do the best we can with her “upbringing”.
I had a HUGE argument with the sperm donor last night-all because he didn’t want to pay a measly 150 dollars for her dentist bill. I told him that if I had the money, I would pay for it. I would pay for everything if I could-just so I won’t have to deal with him. I’m not working because I’m on PFL (paid family leave for Jordan). But he says he’ll pay for her glasses and I pay for the dentist bills. And I told him, how can that be right if I pay for her benefits each and every month. And he says that it’s what a 5 dollars a month…so what..it adds up right? I don’t even think it’s only 5 dollars btw. So then I simply told him to forget it I’ll just get paid the right way and not have to deal with the headache each and every time I ask for money for Jiselle. So then the conversation ended.
Then 10 minutes later, he wants to call back and tell me that he’ll wire me money to my account for the dentist. Blah blah blah…but then I’ll pay for any other bills coming up. WHAT! OMG…Why is it such a big deal for him???????? The boy drives a frickin’ bmw-a newer version, has a couple houses, and can afford to play golf for leisure. And who knows what else he does. He started mentioning that he’s been paying for stuff that I don’t know about that maybe I should pay half for…uh ya, whatever. WHAT is it that he pays for besides half the daycare???? And when she’s there, she’s with her grandparents! So I really don’t know what those things are????? Then I said to really forget it and I’ll just go through the county and get paid that way. And I’ll get paid to pay for Jiselle’s needs. Then he goes off saying that he wouldn’t have the problem paying me what the state would pay me if I was raising her right. He went on saying that GOD KNOWS that I don’t take care of her.
WHAT! This is what he said:
1. She doesn’t eat vegetables when she’s here.
2. I leave her at daycare instead of picking her up right after school.
3. I don’t cook for her, Ken does.
4. I don’t help her with her homework, Ken does.
5. When he picks her up on his Fridays, her hair is messy.
Ok…WTF is he talking about??????????
1. Um..ok. We have vegetables at times. Yes, we need to force her in eating that more.
2. Jiselle tells me to pick her up at 4pm because she wants to play with her friends at daycare.
3. Ken wants to cook.
4. We both help her with her homework
5. Jiselle takes a shower everyday and I brush her hair and fix it. The girl is 7 and loves to do cartwheels, monkeybars, etc.
Then he said that maybe I’m irritated because it’s true! HUH. He’s really crazy.
And then he said, and this really made me upset, that I’m asking for money for my own benefit. For my family with Ken. That’s such BULLSHIT! And what money is he talking about? Again, the money he gives or gave me or what I mentioned earlier in this blog entry.
So then our conversation ends once again. He talks to Jiselle for a LONG time. He was asking her where she wants to stay-with him or with me. And she’s crying cause she doesn’t like it when we fight and she wants to stay with both of us. I know he tries to manipulate her and make her feel sorry for him. That’s why she tries to defend him. If she only knew what type of person her father was.
So last night and today, I’m researching in how to get child support from the sperm donor. Ken found some forms on PDF and I will be printing that soon so I can read it. Does anyone know how to do it?? If so, let me know.
Posted by Jenn
at 12:05 PM PDT