Will I ever learn?

So now it's a cousin. Me and my stupid guilty conscious. Worry about everyone else like I do and thinking that people should be nice then they are. Once again, I stick my neck out. This time to a nit wit of a cousin who has two kids.

Now, you would not think it could be so bad but she is missing quit a few screws. I don't know if it was drugs, being dropped on her head as a baby or what the heck but I do know she comes by it honestly. What's sad, is her husband and her mom know how she is and use it against her. I seriously think she could claim disability.

Anyways, her husband decides the kids fight to much and it's time for them to part. They each have a child from a previous relationship. Anyways, he walks out. His dad owns the place they live in and so the father in law says she has to go. The only place she has to go is to a mother that has 11 cats, 2 dogs and hamsters. When my cousin moved back in w/ her mom, she was expected to clean house, not work and keep her kids in there room. They were supposed to be seen and not heard. There is so much more but I don't want too.. But all I could think of was just how horrible. How could a parent treat there child like that.

So then she moves in with me. Now I never went to her house much before because I didn't like her husband and so I didn't know how she was at cleaning but figured, she' d take care of things since she was staying here and we weren't asking anything. OOO boy was I wrong. She don't clean up after herself or her kids. She thinks my kids will take care of hers or that I am a built in babysitter. We can't watch ANYTHING because she won't shut up for 2 sec or she's on the phone 24/7. Her youngest (I do love him to death and try really hard because I know it sucks when crappy things happen), I'd love to choke. He doesn't think he has to share and she won't make him. She went out and bought him hot wheels and when he wouldn't share, I told him he couldn't play w/ my kids toy's.. So her idea was to put them away. That way he just wouldn't have to share.

The hardest part is.. At one point before we let her stay, I told her there was no way things could work out w/ her staying here because we are so far different when it comes to parenting. I wasn't going to make my kids go w/out. When she started staying here, my kids were more then willing to shut things off, or go in the other room. They didn't argue, they were really good about it but she's just not getting things. Like, she wants her kids in at 8 and expects me to make mine come inside to so they can entertain hers.. NOPE, BS.. I think we've went the rounds about it like 4 or 5 times this week. It's summer, my kids don't have a bed time. They know there dad has to be up early and they are really good about keeping quiet for him and being kids at the same time.

Anyways, I don't see this working out much longer. Don't matter the sacrifices I have made, my kids are the ones that have given up bedrooms and what not and there has been nothing in return.