The Bunch Celebrate Grandpa's Birthday

Happy 80th Birthday Dad! We love you 💗

This week has been a little crazy. Well, compared to the past couple of months it has been pretty tame, but we are really trying to get back to normal, or as close as now possible, but settling into a new routine is hard. We are having to arrange our lives for the next few weeks around L's outpatient therapy sessions and unfortunately the times keep changing. There was a COVID outbreak so they moved this entire weeks worth of sessions to online, which saves me 2.5 hours of driving a day, but means we have to watch her for four hours everyday on the computer while she is at class to make sure she doesn't contact her toxic friends or the crazy evil family. That means I have to stay inside and not do outside chores until she is done and T can keep an eye on her. I am not sure how much it is really helping, but at least she has some structure to her day and appears to be eating better and has a more pleasant disposition.

T had two games this week and his team won both! One of the games he played was against a varsity team. His team was down by almost 20 points at halftime and they came back to win by 4! He has complained about feeling tired this week so I hope he isn't getting sick.

We're looking forward to Thanksgiving next week. We plan to have a nice quiet day of watching the parade, dog show, and building gingerbread houses. I hope it's as low key and uneventful as it sounds. D has started intermittently working again so he won't be here on Thanksgiving. They are super short staffed and really want him to be fully back, but that just can't happen yet. Crazy insane things just randomly pop up and we have to deal with them. He probably won't be 100% back until the new year. I still have doubts that L will be back to normal by her birthday so hopefully we will all have a nice memorable holiday with her in case she chooses to leave her family. The kids still haven't, and most likely never will, forgive her for what she's done, but if she leaves again like she did, they will most likely never have a relationship with her again and I won't blame them. She has put us through more than any loving family should ever go through. I am not sure what D and I will do, but I know our relationship with her will look completely different than with the other kids. We don't trust her. We will never cosign for anything or ask friends/family to help her with job opportunities. I would never want her behavior to reflect on someone else's employment. I just keep telling myself that I got her through school and once she turns 18 it's up to her to use the advice and tools we gave her to succeed. Some people just have to fail before they can appreciate what they have. I hope she doesn't end up being one of those people, but we'll be ok if it does happen.

I hope everyone has a wonderful week!

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