David Journal

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  • Ready but not prepared

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    Laura is ready to be done living away but we still need to get a few things in order before a reunification is likely to be really successful. She’s sleeping at her house tonight but wishes she was here. I’ve determined to get our room cleaned up and the king sized bed available for when…

  • Overnight visit

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    Laura had a rough day today. She can to visit this morning and made the mistake of focusing her thoughts​ on finding a nanny then compounded that by calling Katie Harmer. I didn’t help when I talked about issues with Isaac and Alyssa – issues where​ I feel hopeful but she ends up feeling hopeless.…

  • Treading water

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    Or interview tonight feel through (she was given a job that she had interviewed for some time ago) so we are still looking for train finding a nanny. Asked from DCFS emailed to say she would come tomorrow morning and asked which kids she could interview. She indicated that she expected this investigation to be…

  • Interviewing

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    Laura has begun arranging interviews with nannies who could potentially replace Stephanie. The first one is tomorrow. I took the kids out to Pizza Pie Cafe for dinner then after taking Alyssa to see Dr. Empey I took her to Nielsen’s Frozen Custard as I had promised to do weeks ago when she got her…

  • Getting organized

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    I don’t know if I mentioned it here previously but last week I concluded that Laura would do well to sell her services helping people organize and declutter their homes or offices. I told her as much but until today she didn’t really look into it. Today she looked into it after having ruled out…

  • Neglect

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    Alex finally wrote to me today. She explained that the allegations being overtired are that there is concern over whether we have enough food and whether I sequester myself in my room and let the kids fend for themselves in the evenings. I politely but firmly responded that the allegations were baseless and that DCFS…

  • Measured progress

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    Today was a good indicator of forward progress and lessons learned. Laura spent time with kids during primary and later in the evening. For all the time she spent, she didn’t push herself and others too hard, even when there was some tension at times

  • Each small escape

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    I don’t know whether to be thrilled it disappointed by each narrowly avoided disaster. The last was Isaac’s team avoiding a loss by one last second goal. It should have been an easy win but to often they had mental mistakes, and even worse, widespread incidence of taking mental brakes on both offence and defence.…

  • Rent question

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    Laura asked tonight when we should target her getting home. If she wants to come home in the middle of May we don’t need to pay any more rent but if she wants to stay until school is out well need to pay more. I don’t yet know the best answer to that but I…

  • Nanny transition

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    In the midst of a busy day Stephanie pulled me aside and told me that she couldn’t see herself fitting with the changes that have been taking place in the home this week. She felt a new nanny would be better able to integrate into the new scheme and gave me her two week notice.…