Oh Kathy! You poor loving one! I'm so sorry to hear all this! I got tears in my eyes reading your message. You don't want to know what I think of our police force today. I'm praying for you! More lovings and squeezings for you! Love and Blessings, Pat Ferguson At 06:50 PM 8/31/04, you wrote: >Thank you Sandy and Lelia, and everybody really! I am so glad that I >have all of you to turn to when this stuff happens. > >This evening, I just couldn't stand it any more. Chris was in the >kitchen and I went out to him and I asked if I could have a hug. At >first he resisted, but then, he yielded and gave me a big hug and kiss >and appologized. He admitted that he's stressed out with school >starting and drivers Ed. and his job. I just listened and didn't lecture >or anything. I pray that he will go back to Eric because his way of >handling stress is really inappropriate and he needs to learn some >techniques for handling it better. Plus, there is this whole legal >thing!! The police were a joke today. How frustrating! > >By the way, remember the court date that we had for last March? Well, we >found out more about what happened to that today. We started int >calling around on our own, after the police walked out on us. We called >our local probation officer and found out that she still had our name >from last March, but that the charges had been dropped. Really? Not by >us!! We had been told to wait for the paper work to catch up with the >case so we trusted in the system. Oh, foolish us! We didn't drop the >case, the officer did, evidently. Now, Greg has called that officer back >to find out why, but, of course, he hasn't returned the call yet. I >think that the policeman today was almost laughing at us. Chris had put >a fist on my chin and then said that he would rather beat up Greg, rather >than a blind woman, so he called Greg on the phone and tried to have him >walk into an ambush. I mannaged to get out and met Greg in the driveway >and told him not to go in. He had started banging things around while I >was still in the house and it had sounded as if he had smashed the >digital camera so I was glad to get out. We called the police on the >cell phone in the driveway and the police said that that wasn't enough to >charge Chris with criminal intent. The policeman said that he would have >to be able to prove that Chris was trying to kill us or himself before he >could do anything. We have nowhere to send him and no one will take him. > Oh, I'm so sick of Maine!! If that doesn't prove that Chris has all the >rights under the law, I don't know what does. Oh sure, we can take stuff >away, and if he doesn't like it and trashes the house, we truthfully face >at least a fifty fifty chance that the courts will side with him that >we're just too controling. You really have to be a creative parent today >to survive. Oh well, enough venting for one note. >God bless, everybody and thanks for the prayers. I just pray that Chris >will go see Eric tomorrow, but, it's not looking too good for our team at >this point. >Kathy > >________________________________________________________________ >The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! >Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! >Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!