Phil,
    I will continue praying for her and that she makes the right decisions
in her life and that she will realize there are more important things than
drugs.

Amy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 8:26 PM
Subject: Gretchen Moving Out


> As most of you recall, I had a talk with my daughter before Christmas.  I
> told her then I was giving her to the end of December to decide how she
> wanted to live.  If she stayed in our home, she had certain rules to
follow.
> She has broken all the rules we had that she agreed to about four months
> ago.  We have been getting reports from others who have seen Gretchen in
> various places and places she should not have been.  She likewise has been
> meeting up with a lot of her old drug friends.  Plus, she has been getting
> stoned and claiming, when she had to miss work the next day so she could
> sleep, that she had the stomach flue.  Anyhow, she claims she will be
moving
> into an apartment within a block of our house, supposedly, next Friday.
> Sandy and I finally wondered, and we aren't the only ones who think this,
> that we might be in Gretchen's way, that is, of making a decision on her
own
> which way she is going to live.  this way, she'll have to decide on her
own.
> She now will have restrictions as far as seeing her children are
concerned.
> By that I mean, she won't be allowed to keep either of her boys with her
at
> her apartment for any reason because she already has taken them to places,
> and had them around people, with criminal records and who are druggies,
and
> the Lord only knows what else they are, in the last few weeks.  Just a
week
> ago, she has been over at the neighbors and they are big time dopers.
> Gretchen still smokes cigarettes and although most Christians don't think
> that's a big deal, anyone we have spoken with in drug rehab, Christian
drug
> rehab I mean to say, says if they won't give up the cigarettes, they will
> almost always go back to the drugs.  My friend Keith, who builds houses,
has
> found that one fact to be true based upon many years of hiring former
> druggies and x cons.  Gretchen told her brother that she used to spend 250
> dollars a month on smokes before she went into the drug rehab Christian
> home.  Anyhow, I haven't mentioned everything because, frankly, it is just
> another verse of a very old worn out song.  Remind me to tell you some day
> of the demonic activities around our home that seem to be more prevalent
> when Gretchen is around.  One more thing, I found out that Gretchen is
> telling everybody that we called her today and said she had to be out by
> tomorrow.  We told her Wednesday to be out by Friday.  Plus, I told her
two
> weeks before Christmas that she had to the end of December to make up her
> mind or I would make the decision myself.  Then a week or so ago, I
reminded
> her of the same thing.  Funny how we always want to blame somebody else
for
> things.
>
> Phil.