Today we had a family team meeting for both boys.  They are usually separate, but with all of the chaos of Grandpa being in the hospital I didn't have time for a lot of meetings this month.

There were a lot of updates for us...some of which we knew...some we didn't.

The good stuff:

1. Middle Boy has to stay on electronic monitoring until August...his next court date.  We already knew that so no big deal.
2. Middle Boy now also gets a tracker.  I orginally thought this was court ordered at probation, but no one else seemed to care about it.  I asked a couple of times, but if no one else was worried than I wasn't going to beg for one.  Someone finally realized we didn't have it.  Our tracker starts next week some time.  Basically it means this person will drop in on Middle Boy when he is supposed to be home or at school to see if he is there.  Middle Boy has to call the tracker with his whereabouts at all times.  No big deal...we did it before.  Makes Middle Boy have to increase his responsibility and communication.  Neither of those is bad.
3. Middle Boy can be home by himself for lengths of time up to three hours.  THIS IS A BIG DEAL.  We can drop the after school reporting center and he can walk home.  The tracker can check on him.  This is AMAZING NEWS!!  It eliminates ONE HOUR of car time PER DAY.

The frustrating stuff:

1. Agency won't pay for Middle Boy's summer program.  He can't be left at home alone, because of their rules.  They won't pay for the program.  So...I will be paying for the summer program.  Lucky me!
2. Agency doesn't pay for daycare transportation to school.  They will pay for transportation to daycare, but not from daycare to school.  If I could take Younger Boy to school I wouldn't have him at daycare.  Think it through people!!
3. Summer school doesn't provide transporation unless you had transportation during the school year.  No one takes into account that we live next to the elementary school so we didn't qualify for transportation, but summer school is for MIDDLE SCHOOL which we would have qualified for transportation for, but he didn't go there.  I think daycare will pick him up at summer school if I drop him off.  See item #2.
4. County Attorney can protest Middle Boy's adoption until he is off of probation.  Will she?  Hard to say.  She is still FURIOUS about his case and thinks he should have gone out of state for an in-patient program.  We won't know until we file the adoption petition on June 21st and she has 30 days to protest it.

That's our recap. 

Praises for the good and that the frustrating stuff...while frustrating could be significantly worse.