It is SO HARD to talk to Middle Boy right now.  He wants to come home.  I don't even know if this home is where he is going to be coming back to.

He is right when he says I don't understand what his life is like right now.  I have no idea.  However...I want him to come home more than anything I have ever wanted in my life. 

There is so much frustration that his attorney hasn't been there.  He sees other kids get attorneys and leave and he wonders why it has been a month and no attorney has visited him.  I wonder that, too.

I emailed Guardian ad Litem and CASA today to see if there was ANYTHING they could do.  I wanted to make sure that they were aware he still hadn't had a visit. 

I am trying to be hopeful for the December 1st date.  I was reading online today about the juvenile system in the state and it appears pretty unlikely.  All pretrial motions have to be filed in writing five days in advance.  We are closer to December 1st than the five days.  I hope I am wrong.

We are now to a point where it seems more likely that we will just be going straight to the arraignment at the end of December.

Prayers that there is a detention hearing and that the arraignment can be concurrent.  Prayers for hope...which seems to come and go these days.  More for Middle Boy than for me, but I still have my moments.

Prayers for Attorney.