On January 17th Judge T ordered Middle Boy to both probation and a tracker.  Probation started basically that day.  We have had a couple of different probation officers during this time, but the one we have now will be with us through the end.  If you have to have a probation officer you would want H.  She is AWESOME and truly cares about each of these kiddos.

This entire time Agency and Probation have been battling about who has to pay for tracker.  FOUR MONTHS it has taken them to settle who has the responsibility.  So...as of today we also have Tracker.  She seems nice enough.  Yet another person coming in and out of our house.  She is more intrusive, because she will be around THREE TIMES A WEEK...unannounced...lucky us.

Probation Officer told me this actually double services and accomplish the same thing so it is confusing when judges order both, but it is frequently done.

Tracker will call us at home at 9:30pm every night except Friday and Saturday.  We have to call her those nights.  We are going to have to set some sort of alarm or Middle Boy likely won't remember and neither will I.  Otherwise we don't have to do much except let her in our house to confirm Middle Boy is home.

Prayers this goes smoothly.  It is exhausting having all of these people in and out of the house all of the time.

Praises for reasonable people in these roles.