Our meeting about John is at 10:00. He has been perfect all weekend -- helpful, pleasant, mostly cooperative. He has said and done all the right things to convince him that he is a changed man. We are printing up a reminder sheet of our expectations, taking away his MSN indefinitely (he was using pick up lines like, Hey b****, I want to f*** the h*** out of you -- don’t know WHY they all said no), and making sure he understands that his sleeping arrangements after we move will not be as planned.
When we left for Georgia we were pretty sure we couldn’t go through the come home, try it again, screw up, go back for another assessment route again. But it appears that now that he IS home we will go through it again anyway, even if it is just a few days. His change in behavior warrants him another chance.
However, we realize that this may now be out of our hands and the county may tell us that he has to go into a placement. If this is the case, we will in some ways be relieved but very sad for him.
In the next 8 days I have 3 or 4 things that I am dreading so much that it makes me almost physically ill. By noon today one of those things will be over.
When we left for Georgia we were pretty sure we couldn’t go through the come home, try it again, screw up, go back for another assessment route again. But it appears that now that he IS home we will go through it again anyway, even if it is just a few days. His change in behavior warrants him another chance.
However, we realize that this may now be out of our hands and the county may tell us that he has to go into a placement. If this is the case, we will in some ways be relieved but very sad for him.
In the next 8 days I have 3 or 4 things that I am dreading so much that it makes me almost physically ill. By noon today one of those things will be over.
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Praying for you--from one adoptive mom to another.
Kerri in WV
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