The Young Ogre

So I have like three kids that I personally gave birth to, and a fourth that belongs to my ex (who's not so EX lately), but he's still mine. I have all girls, he's the only boy in the bunch. I'm not gonna sugarcoat any of this, no matter how fucked up it might sound. If I think it, then I'm gonna write it, otherwise what is the point of having a damn blog anyway? So, call me biased if you want, my kids are pretty cute. I even asked around to confirm and yep, people I know agree. I didn't do too bad considering what their fathers look like. Now, sonny-boy, has a not so-attractive mother, but she's a sweetheart deepdown inside. They say beauty is only skin deep and ugly is to the bone. Unfortunately, my boy looks like his mother's side of the family. Now, you might be wondering what the point of this is. Why am I talking bad about one of my kids? Is it because he's not my biological son? No. I do have a point - I'll get to it very soon. My best friend told me about some study she had read about where they were researching the difference in treatment between cute kids and not so cute kids. You see a cute baby and what do you do? "Awwwwww, look at the widdle pwetty babyyyyy, yes you are, yes you are! Gimme kiss! MUAH!!!" Now, see a not so cute baby, and whaddya do? Sit there looking at it and blinking. No one wants to say a kid is ugly, cuz its a KID for crying out loud!!! So anyways, my mother loves my daughters because for one thing, they are easy on the eyes and those are her "real" grandbabies. Now, sonny-boy, is just not cute at all. He has big watery eyes, fat cheeks and seems to be a lil slack-jawed. A long time ago when I was oh-so-in-love with his father, I thought he was cute as a button, but er, I think that stemmed from the fact that I tried to imagine that he was a lil version of his dad, who aint so bad looking, tho he is a bit on the fat side. But I digress. My son is visiting for the summer, and is supposed to be spending time with his father. But it is I who has him a majority of the time, and I work from home. Sooooo....during the day, my daughters are not here, but he has nothing to do. He stays up all night watching movies and sleeps all day upstairs in the living room while I'm down here working. Though it has been over 7 years that this child has been part of my life, mother has never bonded with him. I truly believe it is because the boy is unattractive. As soon as wakes up, he starts sneezing, and no matter what he does, its something irritating. The only reason I don't make him go over to his father's mother's house is because - she is mean to him too! And I'll be damned, I think its for the same reason!!! Every little thing he does my mother nitpicks about it, complains about him, wonders when he is going to be picked up, and has even started calling him "The Troll". Not to his face of course. Now I admit, I laughed when I first heard her say that, but I know that's basically just wrong. He's a kid. He doesn't mean to be ugly. He can't help it if everything he does is just annoying to certain other folks. He has such a sweet heart though. Tells ya he loves about 50 times a day (which I had to make him stop doing - I'm not touchy-feely, lovey-dovey like that). Anyway, I'm sayin mom is evil because of the TROLL thing. How can you call a kid that? I mean...my sister and I call him Shrek on the sly but thats an ogre, not quite the same, and Shrek isn't all THAT bad....besides, one of my daughters, has the same father as Shrek does, and we call her Fiona. So don't think I'm discriminating. I talk shit about my blood babies too. Get it straight. How come I can't see past his bloodhound looks and see the sweet child inside? Meanwhile, his sister, my youngest daughter is the apple of my eyes. She's so beautiful, I can't stay mad at her. I need to think about this subject further because this is really kinda fucked up and I'm sorry that I'm so damn shallow -- I should know what it's like to be an ugly duckling because I was one!