JOURNAL ENTRY: 'No news' means that I am absolutely sick of this!!

April 5, 2008 -

'No news' means that I am absolutely sick of this!!

The judge wouldn't allow anything new to be introduce, stating that it wasn't a "hearing", but a "review". This means that the two new cases that were handed down last year, weren't introduced. We feel as though they should have been introduced, so it now provides us with possibly more fodder for the appeal. Another thing that may hopefully be a silver lining, is that the judge didn't present in his decision why this is all in the best interest of Olivia, nor did he close the case, but left it open ended, again. Both of these were direct orders by the Superior Court of PA to be completed before they would hear the case. So, this means that we will appeal, then most likely the case will be sent right back to the local court.

After the "review", Numb-nuts kept trying to get into the judge's chambers, but the Sheriff kept heading him off, at one point even physically pushing him away from the judge's chamber door. Scott was pissed, because we denied him a visit with Olivia after the court hearing, saying that we had done that before, which we had not. He is such a fool!

The next thing Scott pulled, was to either drive over to Children & Youth, or call them, trying to weasel his way to the judge that way. The sick thing is that it worked. The words that were in the decision by the judge, could only have been implanted by Scott in some way. The very next day, when the judge gave his decision, included that Scott be able to continue the visitations with Olivia and C&Y would be overseeing the visits. The changes that were made though, included that the meetings could take place at a restaurant, store, or park, and that C&Y had the authority to dismiss Mark in accompanying Olivia. NOPE, NOPE, NOPE!! Over *MY* dead body will that happen!!

At this point in time, our attorney will be making contact with the other attorney we hired for the case, a man from Scranton. He's young and will hopefully be able to exert a bit more umph. He will be the attorney to argue the case in an appeal with the Superior Court.

So, that's it for now. I'm hanging on by my fingernails gals. I haven't even been posting, because this is all so very heavy for me right now, though I should put something, somewhere over there. I was only able to sleep a couple of hours last night, because of all this floating around in my head. I don't trust C&Y to not already be biased against us, because of Scott having meetings with them before and after each visitation. Also, I have read hundreds of cases where C&Y exercised their unfettered power against other families who home educated, and I am just not up for yet another battle right now. Our attorney did get it into the court record that my oldest son, Jonathon, has continued to be gainfully employed by the same employer for 5 years, and that my second son, Nicholas, is pulling a 4.0 in college, as well as working almost full time. Even so, if someone is dead set against home educators, they can contrive most anything to cause trouble. This sickens me beyond words.

Do you want to know something "weird"? We had the "review" on the first day of April, and will be giving depositions for Mark's accident on the day before the last day of April. This month is bookended in legal issues.

I will post more as it becomes known. Your continued prayers are appreciated.