It's Been One Hell of a Day

I thought today would start out being better than the day before . . . BOY WAS I WRONG!

After having 'one of those days' yesterday I was looking forward to the meeting Micah and I had this morning in regards to Sam.  Little did I know that I was about to be knocked of my seat and hit by a moving semi-truck going about 80mph . . . OK not literally but it sure felt like it!

During this meeting Micah and I learned that his case manager was wanting to send Sam into an Indepent Living Program that would give him an apartment like setting that would help ease him into his own apartment!  Sounds great . . . right!!  What we came to learn was that this apartment like setting would last about three to six months before Sam would be removed from the program and sent to live on his own.

Soooooooo NOT goona happen so long as I am alive!  This young man is 17 years old (turning 18 in July) and has another year of high school left before he graduates.  I can totally understand having a young man in states custody who appears to be ready to move out on his own and WANTS to move out on his own, but what about a young man who is not ready and is NOT ready to move on his own.

Micah and I are besides ourselves trying to figure out what we can do to help this young man be successful in high school and in is future.  We were given two options move him to the new placement ASAP (in the middle of his 3rd quarter) to Orem or Ceder City or take legal guardianship of Sam.

We are feeling preassured to make the decesion to take guardianship, and by all means we do NOT want this young man to feel the preassure of being an adult so soon, but being a guardian can be more than we ever thought about.

Stay Tuned more to follow next week on the 8th.