Can't fit four years in here.
I see that my most recent post was about Ethan who is now three years old and seems to be suffering from autism. Clarrissa has had a third child, a boy named Damian. He was two years old Thursday and seems to be a fine little boy. They are staying with their father and his family who basically kicked Clarrissa out. She lives with whoever will give her a place to stay. She can't get her own place unless she has a full-time job, and she can't work full time without transportation. She scraped up enough money from me and others to move into a run-down mobile home in a run-down mobile home park. She and her three boys lived there for about six weeks. Her "common law" husband and his mother had agreed to take care of the boys while she worked and to take her to work and back when other employees couldn't help. That only lasted a month while she and the boys' daddy fussed over everything.
She currently lives about 200 miles away, but came back to this area determined to get a job and save up enough money so she and a new boyfriend could get a place of their own. We agreed to let her live with us again and provide transportation. Her baby daddy, his mother, and Clarrissa's mother all were having fits to get her to come back to care for the boys. Finally, her new boy friend said she could come back to live with him and his mother, and resume her job as caregiver. She was lonesome for the boys (although their daddy usually wouldn't let her see them or even call!) so she went back after a week.