Holy cow...it's been how long since I posted?!

Pardon me...I can't believe it has been more than a month since I posted to this blog!

It's not that I don't find the topic important. It is still a very important part of my life, but my new job has taken up quite a bit of my time and energies...as well as our move!

So now we deal with distance and our relationship/management with Sharon. It hasn't been too bad. As a matter of fact, I would say it has actually been good.

Why would I say good? Well, I had surmised that the distance would help her to not feel that we were readily available and the reverse to be true as well. And I think that is has come to be true!

We do have some concerns that the Program Manager of the house is a little too casual with the girls. Not in the strict way, but more in that she LIKES to do things for the girls and, therefore, why would the girls even attempt to learn when things are already getting done for them?!

That said, Sharon did tell us that she has been told that she needs to ride the bus more for her daily errands. And, she has made a trip or two to the store to get her prescriptions or whatever on her bike. Sometimes it is with the other girls and sometimes she has done this on her own. These are MAJOR steps!

Sharon still does not have a new job yet. This has been an extreme disappointment for us. It seems that since we are not there to do any major pushing, she is falling to the backburner and isn't really being taken to interviews (let alone finding any to take her to). In the last couple of months she has been on exactly one interview. That is sad...there are jobs she can do out there!

We have had to push the caseworker that is assigned to Sharon for Pioneer to communicate with us. She seems to forget that my husband is still the legal guardian and she doesn't seem to remember that many things need to be cleared with us before they can happen...doctor appointments in particular.

Sharon is still working with the outside agency we hired to work on her money skills. Now that I think of it, we haven't had an update on that in awhile...I need to ask my husband if he has and I don't know about it. She had been good about updates.

The other conversation we have been having is how we are going to handle the Holidays. I figure Sharon will be part of the big Thanksgiving dealy at my family's house, but I told my husband that I don't anticipate she will continue to be a part of Christmas. That, depending on how our schedules go, we will plan to either spend the morning of Christmas eve with her and then go to my parent's house or we will have Christmas Day with her if we have more time and don't have to travel back home on Christmas Day. Logistics...gotta love 'em.

In the meantime, we are needing to do a report to the judge to update him about Sharon's having moved into transitional living to develop her independence. I don't think it should be a problem (and what if it is????), but it is a formality we need to do.

Never ending.

Well, here's to posting a little more quickly next time.