Phil,
    You and your family are in my prayers.  I will be praying that you make
the right decisions.  It's such a sad situation.  It's sad that her boys see
her act this way.

Praying,
Amy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 12:48 PM
Subject: Gretchen Latest


> Sandy and I are once again considering making Gretchen move out.  Her
lying,
> along with her life style, is becoming a problem again.  She has had three
> bad drug tests so they have put her back into a drug rehab program which
are
> just classes she has to attend each week.  Plus she has to pay for the
> classes.  Recently, Sandy and I were going to go out to eat with John and
> Vicki.  My youngest son had given us a 40 dollar gift certificate so we
all
> were going to go to a particular restaurant.  I knew exactly were the gift
> card was but when we found it, the little plastic credit card was gone
from
> the gift card.  I took everything out of the drawer and my grandson even
> helped.  It was not in the drawer.  My son, when he gave it to me, saw me
> put it into that drawer, too, so it appears it was taken.  These sorts of
> things happen all the time when Gretchen is around.  The problem of asking
> Gretchen to move is that we will lose her 500 dollars a month rent.  I had
a
> talk with Gretchen a week ago but it hasn't changed anything.  So, I am
> going to talk to her again this weekend but I am not looking forward to
it.
> Gretchen is also living, off and on, with a non Christian guy she used to
do
> drugs with but she claims he is clean now.  Sure and a chicken has lips,
> too, as my mother in law used to say.  Since we still have legal
> guardianship of our 10 year old grandson, Gretchen's oldest boy, I refuse
to
> allow him to go to this guys apartment.  Gretchen was told this.  Thursday
> night, she told me she was taking the boys to a nearby park.  Two hours
> later, we found out Gretchen was at her boyfriend's apartment with her two
> boys and we made her bring Everett home.  I talked to her yesterday about
it
> and she lied and said I never told her she couldn't take him to Mike's.  I
> am totally wore out from her lies.  She claims she has now been clean for
5
> to 6 weeks.  That's great, if it is true, and it might be because they
test
> her at the drug classes each week.  Regardless, I am beginning to wonder
if
> some of our financial problems aren't literally because darkness is trying
> to live in my house of light.  So your prayers that we do what's right
about
> all this will be appreciated.
>
> Phil.
>
>
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