David Journal

Tag: DCFS

  • At ease in Zion

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    I can’t help thinking of a story Mom told me yesterday about a family that was broken up by DCFS because the parents were clearly overwhelmed and under-resourced. The DCFS action was almost certainly necessary at this point but there should have been intervention earlier when it may not have needed to be so drastic.…

  • Another police interaction

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    We’ve had a few interactions with police over the year—like when Ezra left church and was walking along a major road or when Isaac got lost on his bike in Orem near midnight. This time the police showed up at the house because Isaac called them after he rode away from the house to complain…

  • A Turning Point

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    Emma woke me up a couple of times last night and after the second time for some reason I began remembering the time period when she was born – March of 2013 – and felt the need to record those memories. During the first months of 2013 I was commuting from Bountiful to Lehi to…

  • Case closed … again

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    The good news for today is that our DCFS case is again closed. Becca mentioned in an email that Enoch had been interviewed by phone and she had taken notes. Soon after I read that I got a call from Adelyn asking for contact information for Mom. She said that the boys had only talked…

  • DCFS for Grandma

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    We meet with Adelyn today and felt that we had a good meeting where she understood how responsive we had been to finding solutions in contradiction of what she had been concerned about. We got a better understanding of their process and perspective and as we left she said she was going to close the…

  • DCFS again

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    As if it was Groundhog Day, our day was dominated by DCFS again when, for reasons not yet shared with us, Adelyn pulled basically all our kids out of class to ask what their parents are like when they are angry. I found out as Savannah tried twice to call me and then told me…

  • Andy and Marsha return

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    I enjoyed day 1 of the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit for work today then late in the afternoon I caught Trax up to the airport where Andy and Marsh returned from Odessa, Ukraine. I never recorded the fact that in December (the 19th as I recall) we got a visit from DCFS again due to…

  • More DCFS

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    My day was going along well as I stumbled upon a job title that describes a position that matches up with my skill set. Is even happier to discover that the pay for that job was in line with what I had previously concluded my strengths to be worth (a noticable raise from my current…

  • Five minutes

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    Alex came today to finally see the house and the kids so she could close the investigation. I wish I could have met her but Becca said that she was very respectful, checking that the water was working and peeking into the fridge. Both Becca and Savannah reported that she spent less than 5 minutes…

  • Final prep

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    This evening we made sure to get the rooms today and checked that the fridge want nearly empty so that Alex can quickly lay this case to rest when she comes tomorrow.