Today Ryan and I went and met with the outpatient treatment director re Ryan joining their program. He explained the huge commitment on the part of the kid as well as the parents. They feel he will either turn himself around or it will decide if residential is really where he needs to be. They basically take over and call all the shots as a 3rd parent. No move is made that isn’t approved by them and the kid’s week is planned out for them during Saturday's meeting. Very intensive and they put up with nothing. He said to expect them halfway through to say they want to quit as they are fine, get fed up with the 'rules', etc. and explained to Ryan if he felt something he had on wasn't appropriate, for instance, he will come to his house and take it away. Ryan is willing to give it a try and wanted to stay for the rest of the group meeting that was going on when we were there so I waited in the car and read. While it’s not how I’d like to spend the next 12 weeks, it’s what we need to do. I am praying we make the right decision.

We had a couple offers on our Florida house and accepted one this morning. It is to close within 2 weeks so that will be one less issue.

A rainy day

It's a chilly, rainy day here which is nice since we need rain. The younger two went to lacrosse during the lull in the rain but dressed a little warmer than usual! Ryan and I have an appointment with the addiction treatment service that leads the group meetings we've been attending. They will do an assessment and we will discuss their outpatient program. It is important to get the kids into something when they are clean and willing to make the change. This will be at our expense but my hope is to be one of the parents who can say the program changed their child's life around. It is an intensive 12 week program with three sessions a week at three hours each plus one group meeting. It's a big driving commitment on the part of the parents but a small price to pay if it works. Mark also attended a drug program sponsored by his school district last week and the information was amazing. The three schools locally with the hugest drug problem are RB, Poway, and Torrey Pines. The drug of choice is the prescription drug Oxycodone - a drug one molecule away from heroin. The new rage is "farm" parties where kids bring prescription drugs, throw them into a bowl, mix them up, grab a handful and take them. It's a scarey time.

Since poor Kelleigh isn't getting any better with her cough, we went to get meds before school today. He was most concerned about her ears and kept looking at them. She's never had an ear infection but said they did feel plugged up Picked up her meds so she'll start them when she gets home from school today. We also have an eye appt. for her today as she can't see the board. I don't think she's real thrilled about getting glasses but would prefer to see! The girls in the house will both have a new look! Was productive after dropping her off at school and got the car tuned up so am good for another few thousand miles. Off to throw dinner into the crockpot so I don't have to think about that all afternoon...

Busy weekend

It was a gorgeous weekend in San Diego! Saturday morning was spent at lacrosse then Mark and I attended John Rosemond's parenting seminar in the afternoon. While I have read many of his books, when it comes to teens his theories are a bit too idealistic. The examples of how to handle a child in a situation were great and, at time comical, but what about the kid who says no and walks out the door. What then? Those were the things that didn't get addressed and I'm sure we weren't the only parents with those type of kids. The kids who would be responsive to his teachings probably weren't there!

Sunday the kids and I attended Maranatha. I will say they have one of the best music portions of a service of anywhere I've ever attended. The kids each went to their age-appropriate 'services' and seemed to like it. Ryan knew one kid and Connor knew a boy from school. Hopefully after a couple weeks they will be more comfortable but all said they liked it. That's a start! Afterwards, Mark and Connor went to the golf tournament at Torrey Pines. They said there was a good crowd despite the absence of Tiger.

Mark is home today as their semester ended and it's the teacher's day to input grades and get lessons ready for next semester. I made a doctor appt for Kelleigh as her cough is no better so will get her meds. Also wrote a letter to Bosch as the dishwasher isn't working again so will see what response I get back. Threatened to go buy another brand so that may get their attention. I've never spent so much having an appliance repaired as that one. Annoying given it was given such high ratings. Did I mention we need to get a new microwave too?! Just love spending money on those things!