What great news to wake up to!! Your niece showed amazing maturity, standing up to her parents and choosing to give herself a chance by living with your parents. I hope she is able to stay with your parents and I hope your parents are up to the task of raising another teenager. People who raise teenagers should be eligible for sainthood. LOL! I hope you can see her more. She is still pretty far away. Maybe a bus/train/? ride to your house for a weekend once in awhile could be arranged? As for your DS, it seems like you haven't quite resolved what you want to say. It will come to you. About time, indeed! But somehow I don't think your DS would be receptive to that statement. Thanks for the update and keep us posted!

I haven't heard anything more since my DSIL sent me a text this morning. Thank you all so much for the thoughts and prayers. I know they are working. I will try to post as soon as I hear something, but am going to be with out internet for a few days. If I can get logged in on my phone I will up date, if not, I wll post when I get home on Monday. Tami

Sorry, yes, LeAudra is my niece, my brother's child. I've never had children; she was the first of all the nieces and nephews and has always been "my special baby." Of course, now that's there's 12 of them, all the neieces and nephews are "my special babies," but she's my special first-born girl, just as Christopher is my special first-born boy. I'm very fortunate that her mother, my SIL, has always "shared" and let her visit whenever I wanted. She spent most of every summer, from age one until she was 16, with me.

I would really like to find out how she progresses and handles it. Was her appointment at Johns Hopkins?