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Adoption Day arrived and boy what a day!

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This week, (Wednesday) we had what we thought was going to be a final hearing, although we really did not know this. Good thing because it wasn't. This week was a review hearing. Kind of a day to make sure all the ducks are in a row. One parent came to the hearing via telephone, actually everyone came by telephone. Our house was down with the flu and ear infections and our attorney was stuck somewhere along the northwest coast.  The mom that called in was determined that this was her day, her turn to shine, that she indeed was to prevail. She called the magistrate names, insisted that she was sent papers that indicated the case was overturned and that they were signed by this magistrate. The magistrate corrected her, gave her time to read the date and court to her, and thanked her as she reminded her that her rights had been terminated last June. The mom read the date and time of a fictitious paper, not anything any of the rest of us had. As she asked if she had made any appeals to...

Computers, frustration, computers and more frustration!!

Well in my last post... back when dinosaurs roamed the plains... I had promised to get a bag of donations together roughly every three days to help clear out the clutter.  I also said I would keep everyone posted and be held accountable.  Then again I did not count on computer crashing in multiple to happen.  Yes in multiple!  It all started when I loaned my recently restored laptop to my son.  Of course then the tower which had been working just fine decided to start "freezing" Then my kindle decided it was not going to charge any more (I think that was self defense, the 3 year old has been obsessed with watching "super Why" on Netflix) so I went to the netbook as a next resort.  It too has started acting absolutely crazy.  We already bypass the mouse and built in key board to get it to work but now it also has problems that are not solved with those techniques. Now this house has probably 10 computers in total most don't work and those that do be...