...different day
Today has been a day. We got up early and went to court with Jerome. Last March, a friend of his took him practice driving with her mother's car, and Jerome jumped a curb. He got a ticket for driving without a permit or license. He had a deal with the prosecutor that the charges would be dropped if he got his permit by today.
But he got mugged two weeks ago (and got beat up a bit) and had his wallet stolen -- and his only copy of his birth certificate was in the wallet. I knew that, to get a license, you have to show a stamped copy of your birth certificate, but I didn't know that you needed it just to get the permit.
So I was expecting that Jerome would go to jail this morning, because he couldn't take the permit test (we tried last night - no go.) On the way in, I asked him who his court appointed attorney was -- he said that the attorney who had given him the plea deal was his court appointed attorney.
In other words, he thought that the prosecutor was his court appointed attorney.
When we got in front of the judge, I explained that Jerome was learning disabled, and had thought that the prosecutor was his court appointed attorney. The Judge assigned Jerome an attorney, and he has a new pre-trial date. Hopefully, we'll be able to get his birth certificate from Colorado by Aug 31, and go get his permit, which is all the prosecutor wanted.
He also woke up with a horrible tooth ache. After getting out of court, we took him into the doc and got a script for antibiotics.
Then Mike and I went and looked at some houses. Once we get the little boys, we'll need more space. We found one we really like -- it's close to Mike's work, it's in the country on over three acres, and it has four bedrooms. It's small, but it will work well for what we want. But there's already an offer on it -- bummer. The real estate agent is going to send me links to others that might work.
While we were out driving around the country side, Jerome was here at the house. Jerome has a daughter who lives with her mother in Colorado -- his daughter is 2yrs old, and her name is Isabelle. Yesterday, Isabelle was taken from her mother. Jerome wants her to come here (Isabelle's mom is a pill popper) and we said that we're open to that, but we don't think Colorado would be cool with it. Jerome is going to get a call from a social worker from Colorado's CPS sometime tomorrow or the next day. So we'll see.
Things to do:
-- schedule a dentist appointment for Jerome
-- get Luke registered for school (he'll be starting 6th grade)
-- tomorrow -- interview at 7:30 am for Patient Care Tech job -- might take it, I dunno
-- tomorrow -- go in to work for Obama campaign at 11am (I'm being trained as a 15-hr/wk volunteer intern)
-- work on the golem
But he got mugged two weeks ago (and got beat up a bit) and had his wallet stolen -- and his only copy of his birth certificate was in the wallet. I knew that, to get a license, you have to show a stamped copy of your birth certificate, but I didn't know that you needed it just to get the permit.
So I was expecting that Jerome would go to jail this morning, because he couldn't take the permit test (we tried last night - no go.) On the way in, I asked him who his court appointed attorney was -- he said that the attorney who had given him the plea deal was his court appointed attorney.
In other words, he thought that the prosecutor was his court appointed attorney.
When we got in front of the judge, I explained that Jerome was learning disabled, and had thought that the prosecutor was his court appointed attorney. The Judge assigned Jerome an attorney, and he has a new pre-trial date. Hopefully, we'll be able to get his birth certificate from Colorado by Aug 31, and go get his permit, which is all the prosecutor wanted.
He also woke up with a horrible tooth ache. After getting out of court, we took him into the doc and got a script for antibiotics.
Then Mike and I went and looked at some houses. Once we get the little boys, we'll need more space. We found one we really like -- it's close to Mike's work, it's in the country on over three acres, and it has four bedrooms. It's small, but it will work well for what we want. But there's already an offer on it -- bummer. The real estate agent is going to send me links to others that might work.
While we were out driving around the country side, Jerome was here at the house. Jerome has a daughter who lives with her mother in Colorado -- his daughter is 2yrs old, and her name is Isabelle. Yesterday, Isabelle was taken from her mother. Jerome wants her to come here (Isabelle's mom is a pill popper) and we said that we're open to that, but we don't think Colorado would be cool with it. Jerome is going to get a call from a social worker from Colorado's CPS sometime tomorrow or the next day. So we'll see.
Things to do:
-- schedule a dentist appointment for Jerome
-- get Luke registered for school (he'll be starting 6th grade)
-- tomorrow -- interview at 7:30 am for Patient Care Tech job -- might take it, I dunno
-- tomorrow -- go in to work for Obama campaign at 11am (I'm being trained as a 15-hr/wk volunteer intern)
-- work on the golem