On Valentine's Day we found spyware on our computer.  It was a huge, nasty, keystroke-collecting thing apparently installed year before last by hand when someone broke into our house looking for our medical insurance records (and audio-taped themselves doing it, the dorks) and set it to auto-download on V-day.  We don't think it activated last V- ( Read more... )

Six months after we last spoke to DHS and moved into the new house, I finally feel like I have time to catch my breath.  I didn't remember until Memorial Day that the month we moved in was the approximate 25th anniversary of the day my husband and I first met.  That made us feel better.

The outside of the new house is ready for summer, and the ( Read more... )

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Sorry to be late.  We've been busy getting moved.

After we met with Choctaw County DHS on Wednesday, December 15 we prepared to move into the new house.  Unfortunately the sellers had "issues" that we were still dealing with (Good grief, the post I'll write on them when I get the time!), one of those issues being a pack of huge, vicious ( Read more... )

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We've been really busy getting moved into the new house, but I'm back at the old house today.  Some unkind soul turned off our outdoor water faucet so it burst in the freeze.  We dealt with it, added more locks to the house, and for the first time since October spent the night.

It was Psychologically Necessary In the Long Term (TM), but I ( Read more... )

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We're back at the Okolona house with the children for the first time since our house was broken into, doing a last email download before changing over the phone.  If you've emailed me recently, please be patient.  It's going to take me a while to go through that mess.

Friday December 10 -- We met with the new lawyer and went over the case ( Read more... )

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Bought the house.  Renovations begin Monday.  Current move-in date is in two weeks.

DHS case may be resolved.  More details Saturday.

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Both our lawyers have informed DHS of our official change of address.

Natasha Ivory has said that we'll be summoned to appear before Youth Court on December 17 (it meets once a month), but we haven't been given an official summons yet.  I'll quote from the lawyer's email as to the reason:

She indicated that you have not signed the service ( Read more... )

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I'm uploading a crude hack of the video to youtube right now.  Hopefully it'll be finished by the time I post.

We have new mailing addresses.  We're staying with a relative in Choctaw county and using her address for our personal mail, and we've got a PO Box for our business mail.

DHS refused to believe that our new lawyer was our new ( Read more... )

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Thanksgiving has come and gone, and we made do okay.

I filled out two more personal assessments for the psychologist and a Maternal Discipline short-answer test.  ("Your child has broken a lamp and lied to you about it.  What do you do?"  "I don't have any lamps.  Everything breakable is in storage.  This is why.")

The new lawyer sent a ( Read more... )

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Making a flying visit to the house for food and warm clothes -- the weather is starting to turn nippy.  Got an MMPA(?)  I think the "M-something Multi-Phasic Assessment" today so I can be Certified Sane(TM).  Took care of some details concerning buying and moving into the new house.  My husband says Bozo just got back so I don't have ( Read more... )