...largely because of dealing with my high maintainance kids, Josh in particular. However, along those lines, i do have news!

i totally forgot to mention here that we finally got Medicaid for Josh which will provide funding for a foster/therapeutic/group home for him ... aaaand... Yesterday, Josh met a Prospective House-mum from a therapeutic home & spent about an hour with her & her helper person! And I think it went pretty well! He was a bit hesitant to go out the door with them at first; I think he was expecting me & W to go with him, but after a couple gentle prompts & nudges by me, he went out with them and got into their car willingly. Yayayay!

They took him off to McDonald’s (where he did not like their choice of seating and chose his own table which they were totally okay with ;D) and proceeded to refuse to eat! I think between the strangeness of the whole situation and possibly that he was thirsty (and refuses to drink from a straw anymore; he used to!) he even turned down his much beloved french fries.

Then they took him to a bookstore in a nearby mall where he was able to respond & keep to the boundaries they set up for him orbit in. They got him to SIT DOWN (this is a HUGE gasp 'cause they can't even get him to sit down at school to do his schoolwork at all) on a bench in the mall for ten minutes. And then they came back. They kept assuring me that he was fine & no problem to handle, which was my biggest worry.. that he would fight them and stuff.

So! If all peoples involved can manage to get the necessary paperwork done by this weekend, he’ll have his overnight stay to see how that goes and if that goes well, then he’ll have a new home!


Harena of ~woozalia