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jlf1961 -> RE: The joys of child rearing (i.e controlled chaos) (8/31/2016 7:19:49 PM)
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Dinner tonight was basically a variation of SoS, browned ground beef in a beef stock gravy over rice, with green beans for a veggie.
What he wanted was poppop army breakfast, which of course is SOS with eggs, biscuits, fried taters, and salsa.
I explained that due to all the running we had to do today, that no one had time to shop for the stuff to make enough for everyone.
That satisfied him, since we did have salsa, his condiment of choice for everything (with few exceptions) although for desert he did request I deep fry twinkies.
I did not deep fry anything tonight, too dang tired.
The little scoundrel did not know that poppop got up about every 30 minutes or so to actually check on him through the night. He has been gone for so long, I actually had to look in on him to make sure he was actually here.
There are some other matters pertaining to the case that I have taken care of, or been made aware of since yesterday.
1) The local state rep has contacted the Commissioner for Child Protective Services, and we can expect a call from their office some time in the next couple of days.
Her assistant told me that the rep has some of her staff looking for a lawyer that will take the case pro bono in Federal Court, and that she had been instructed to pass that information on to the Commissioners office.
This was after I called this morning to update them on what the hell was said and going on.
2) A local reporter contacted me (actually trying to reach my sister) asking about some things he was told were said in court, which I verified he had heard correctly.
3) A reporter (the same reporter that broke the news about a CPS investigator that did not properly investigate a complaint which resulted in the death of a child) also contacted us about the hearing and what was said.
Again I confirmed what she was told.
4) the local CPS director who had been forced to reapply for her job due to changes in the procedures was not approved and removed from her position, actually suspended pending further action.
This happened after a few people from Austin showed up at 8, and while I was making phone calls to the various people who have taken intense interest in activities of the local cps office as well as this case in particular.
As of 5pm, three regional directors in the state have been fired, suspended or replaced, over a hundred investigators have been suspended, a number of case workers have been suspended, and criminal charges are being sought in some of the cases.
5) When my sister went to set up the contact paperwork at munch's school, she was informed that since we lived outside the city limits, there was no way he could stay in the school and would have to be transferred to our local school district.
And CPS has no say in the matter.
It has to do with the fact that we live 11 miles from his bus stop.
So, we called caseworker, left a voice mail, and sis did what she was told to do by the school administrator. Caseworker left her a voice mail telling her in no uncertain terms that she is to transfer munch. She would tell the school what to do etc.
Now when cps worker showed up with the deputy to check my weapons storage, he walked in, sat down and drank coffee with me, and asked when I would be available to drill some of the potential swat members on sniper techniques.
Caseworker asked if he was going to inspect my storage arrangement.
He looked at her and told her, "Ma'am this guy is so careful with weapons that IF someone were to break in, it would take him a good 3 minutes to get a gun. I dont have to look."
Then grinned and added, "Besides, we had him check the weapon storage procedures at the jail when we figured we needed to make some changes."
His final statement to her, "I am going to get in trouble for this, but lady, quit being a bitch."
We went back to talking while she sat at the table and fumed/pouted.
Of course, I had already had something planned for her, because she informed us that we had to have anyone that may be around Damian cleared by cps to visit.
I gave her 4 pages of friends that I said plan to try and visit in the next few months. Many of them are old army buddies and former coworkers and all active in jobs that require high security clearances.
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