H has planned to come over and cook dinner for us tonight.
Hasn't done this in a while.
But in the meantime, D16 has started acting out badly.
The other day she heard me praising H for his new 'football-trained' legs (I've always loved his legs and made a lot of their attractiveness, so thought I would comment). D16 reacted with disgust ("Yuk") and yelled at us to 'Stop it' (i.e. talking about his great legs).
Last night she refused to stop face-booking on her computer during the night when she should have been sleeping, and she refused to go to school today, telling me "You can't tell me what to do".
And lately, whenever I ask for her help with any chores around the house, she responds with "You're the mother, You do it."
Her behaviour is likely to sabotage any small steps toward us that H is demonstrating. Bad timing... but understandable.
Sometimes I feel like I'm constantly trying to hide everything from everybody; papering over monstrous cracks.
And just when I get one set of cracks covered, another strip of paper peels off from somewhere else.
