Day in Court

We had our court date for Adam on Wednesday and his parents did not show up.  Drugs, poverty, and lack of brain cells have made them very unreliable.  The judge said she had to issue a new court date and she would not make any decisions until they showed up in court. At about 10:00am that morning I began to have butterflies in my stomach.  The kind you get when you are extremely excited and extremely nervous all at the same time.  By about 1:00pm I thought I needed to sit on the toilet because my nerves had got the best of me.  I was excited that I might get to bring Adam home and nervous that I would have to face his mother.  Neither happened so we have to wait until December 29th for our next court appearance.  We've talked to Social Services and they are going to do what they can to get them to the court.  If we can get them to tell us where they live, we will go there, drag them out of bed, bag them and stuff them in the trunk, and deliver them to the court ourselves.  (I'm kidding, of course.  We've actually had a nice relationship with them.  They would really just need a meal and a ride.)