Visit Hearing and Move Day

The visit hearing was a nightmare. I testified for 45 minutes. Moms attorney argued I am not qualified to be assessing if a child has behaviors after a visit. 1) I'm a parent 2) I was a child and family therapist specializing in DCS children 3) I taught child focused social service courses. I think I got this dumb ass. One question that circles my brain. "Why didn't you request therapy for her?" Well, hmmmm.... Considering she only knew two or three words when this all began might be your first clue... What an idiot. He said he didn't know if the hearing even though it was set 3 months ago. The judge wants to come back in January to give him more time. Bs.... 

We are officially moved into our new place. Holy cow, I could sleep for a week. The only boxes left are holding my books. I need to go pick up a few bookshelves. The girls love it here. I can hear their giggles from upstairs. They should be sleeping. Chunk is up in her knees almost crawling. With carpet, she'll take off. My neighbors are great. We're right up against a river. In Arizona, we don't typically have water in our rivers. And also right around the corner from a park. There's a really nice running path behind my house as well. This was a good move in many ways for us. I need to pull out some plants that are toxic but other than that, we're doing great here. I'm very thankful I had help unloading the uhaul even though the people that helped stressed me out. My uhaul went missing for 4 hours full of the girls belongings. Turns out the football game was on... This did not make me happy. I had a short window of time to get moved and somewhat functional before the sisters got back from visit. That didn't happen due to the football game. Boys... 

Happy holidays!!!

-K