Is there a pill for this?

Insanity has been the theme of our week. As posted earlier...Mary is taking Mark back to court. The bottom line is she wants Shelby to stay in WI for two weeks after school gets out instead of coming out here right away so that she will be there for her fathers (Marys father) 75th Birthday. However, she just cannot for one second bring herself to write a normal email to Mark and say 'hey...I'd like Shelby to be here for my dads bday. Could she fly out to you two weeks later and we'll just tack on the two weeks at the end of the summer?". No...that would be too easy AND she'd actually have to be nice. So what does she do instead?

She files a 60 some odd page motion with the court. It includes cutting Marks annual visitation time with Shelby from 11 weeks (nine in summer, a week at spring break, every other Christmas) down to just five weeks total (four in summer, eo Christmas and eo spring break). It also included a motion to find him in contempt for things that were either already ruled on in previous rulings and therefor not contemptuous OR things that were never a court order so CAN'T be contemptuous. All this to try to 'scare' Mark into agreeing out of court and giving up OVER half his yearly time with Shelby all so she wouldn't miss her granddads 75th birthday. Mark said "Hell no". Our Attorney said "F*** her". I asked if this was a legal term and I was assured that it was! lolol....our next move was to ignore the other side. We were able to do this because they sent over this huge motion to our attys office but did NOT file it with the court (therefore we knew it was just a 'scare' tactic). Once her side realized we were ignoring them, they set aside that motion and tried another tactic. They dropped the loss of visitation and just sent over a contempt motion. With all the same contempt issues as in the first one. Mark said "bring it on". It would have allowed us to bring into evidence all sorts of things that Mary and her parents have done in the past 18 months that are in flagrant disregard of the parenting plan while at the same time showing that Mark has done NOTHING in violation (big surprise!). I spent the better part of a day and a half formulating our response (good practice for me!). Once the other side was told we were more than happy for them to file this motion (they hadn't filed THIS one with the courts either. The legal process is you file your motion in the courts and THEN serve the other side. They had not done this, so we KNEW it was just another 'scare' tactic), we heard nothing from them until the next day. Yup..a NEW motion was sent over for our 'consideration'. Are you keeping up? That is THREE motions in ONE week!!! ALL not filed with the courts, ALL just sent to our atty first to 'review', a big no no when you truly think you have a case! :) so..the new motion? Mary just wants Shelby to fly out two weeks later. She does not mention her fathers bday this time but rattles on for two pages about other things. It will be a no brainer. We are getting our response ready and it won't be a big deal.

The big deal is that we have to go through all this stupidity for what? A two week delay in her arrival? One note is that Mary did NOT suggest that we tack on the missing time to the end of the summer, not a big surprise. That again would require her to be normal.

So like the title of my blog says 'Is there a pill for this'?

Hugs to all,
Enjoy your Memorial Day long weekend!
Jaye