Recent News

Friday, May 04, 2007

Recent News

Well, the time is coming closer and closer to when we pack up and leave for Italy. Its exciting and nerve racking and stressful. Leaving everyone and especially my boys is going to be the hardest. I wish I could just pack them up in my suitcase and take them too. Josh really wants to go bad. I know its going to break his heart.

I am graduating with my associate's in Corrections tomorrow, May 4th!! That is exciting for me. When I am in Italy I will continue for my Bachelor's. I hear there are a lot of great schools there.
May 9th Sergio is coming home.

June 4th we leave for Italy for our long three day trip! I will be taking my cat but have to wait to take my dog since it will most likely be too hot for her to fly.

Update on the boys: They are all attending therapy regularly now. Josh is going every week and Seth and Caiden will alternate and go every other week. When they leave therapy they tend to be more hostile towards each other and act out the next day. Josh's big problem is acting out at school. He has just learned about making choices. We will give him two choices and if he choses the wrong choice then we let him know he is chosing to give up a privilage. For example, last night he didn't want to leave my mom's and listen when I told him to put his shoes and coat on. So he also wants to see Spiderman 3 this weekend. So I told him he has two choices: He can put his shoes and coat on now without throwing a fit and come with me, or he is chosing to not go see Spiderman 3. I told him "The choice is yours" of course he wanted both his way, so I had to tell him that he had exacltey one minute to choose and if he didn't then I would have to choose for him and he wouldn't like it. So he made the choice to obey and come with me. Its new to him so we will see how it goes. Another thing the therapist recommended was to use big words to get them to stop and pay attention. For those of you with kids, try it, it really does work! So following the directions the video gave (my mom watched a video by herself at therapy meeting). They were in the grocery store and Josh was acting up. So my mom said "Joshua today we are going to institute new policies and procedures while in the grocery store. He stopped immediately, his eyes got wide and he said "really? what is it?" He wanted to know all about what she was saying. So she went on with his two choices. In the video I guess the man who thought of all this said he did it while in the resturaunt and people looked at him funny and were laughing and he said "oh well at least I got my 7 year old son to sit down and listen to me"
Alright well enough of that.

Oh yeah and by the way, stupid (stephanie) got 6 months probation for the threats she made to me, has to take random drug and alcohol screens and has to go to therapy that is mandated by the probation officer. She also had to pay $500 in fines and $237 in attorney fees and then another $140 for something else. That in itself was worth it!! She finally had to pay for her mouth!